Quick Cooking

Taste of Home's Quick Cooking appears to have two Premiere Issues, both published in 1998. The covers are different, but the only content that is different is that one is Premiere Issue 1998 (3) and the other is Premiere Collector's Issue 1998 (5); the pagination and recipes are identical.

I'm guessing the one on the left was first, because its price is $2.99; the other is $3.95. I picked them up at the library sale for 50 cents, but wouldn't you be mad if you bought the second one on the basis of the cover and discovered you'd just paid for one you already had?

"Almost from the day we began publishing Taste of Home bimonthly, its readers began pleading with us to publish another cooking magazine on the months "in between" each issue. . . so they could receive this practical kind of food magazine monthly. . . Finally we s=responded, with the Premiere Issue you're now reading. . . The main difference is that Quick Cooking puts a huge premium on time. It's aimed at families where busy parents return home after a stressful day at work and want to put a good meal on the table fast."

I think I just might try that peach cake on p. 22 (see cover on the left above). Based on the publisher's web page, this title has been changed to Simple and Delicious.

Taste of Home's Quick Cooking; rapid recipes with homemade taste
Premiere Edition 1998 and Premiere Collector's Issue 1998
ISSN: 1099-632X (supplied)
Canadian GST No. R123204331
Subject: Cooking, recipes
Publication schedule, bimonthly
Reiman Publications
5400 S. 60th St.
Greendale WI 53129-1404
$2.99 for Premiere Issue; $3.95 for Premiere Collector's Issue
Subscription $17.98/year; $29.98 for 2 years
http://www.reimanpub.com
Executive editor: Kathy Pohl
Food Editor: Coleen Martin
Publisher: Roy Reiman

51 Homegrown Hospitality

Homegrown Hospitality

Don't get attached. It's already changed its title and frequency, and it just came out in summer 2007. Originally intended as a special issue for Paper Crafts (no details on frequency), it is now a quarterly called Home and Heart.

Scrap/craft blogger Julia Stanton writes at her blog:

"Originally called Homegrown Hospitality for its premiere issue, the name has been changed to Home and Heart. This magazine is their second issue and is published quarterly. I had to tell you…this magazine has its own unique beautiful style. Home and Heart is a perfect title for it. Gorgeous photo spreads, recipes, ideas, tips and hand crafted designs have had me going through the magazine all weekend. While this publication has supply lists published at the back of the magazine, this publication is much more about inspiration than another how-to crafting magazine. I’m LOVING the fresh approach! Home is definitely where the heart is."

Artist Stephanie Ackerman has a blog by this name--don't know how that affected the title of the magazine. She writes the letter to the readers of the premiere issue, saying she's a busy person with scrapbooking, doodling, baking, laundry, etc.:

"The following pages are a collection of ideas, projects thoughts, moments, and memories all with the intention of promoting the lost art of creating a home sweet home."

You'll see how I spark my creativity, get inspired, and simplify, so that I can find the time to do the things that really matter--he small things that give big returns when it comes to making life's moments memorable. Here you'll find just the good stuff--the simple things you already know, you just forgoet to remember."

I realize everyone has time to do what they enjoy--like blogging, or golf, or tennis, or committee work. But I find it hard to imagine that crafting memories is a "lost art" because I see dozens of magazines devoted to this on every newsstand. When my children were young, the craft ideas were all for them. The women I knew (most hadn't gone back to work yet) knitted, cross-stitched, sewed, baked and organized their neighbors for various good causes--I just don't recall so much emphasis on crafts--although there was in my grandmothers' day, whose magazines were filled with craft and quilting projects.

This issue has features on Family--preserving or starting traditions; Friends--ideas for get togethers and special occasions; Home--quick and creative ideas for organizing and decor. An adorable idea for a bread wrap (for a gift) on p. 52; soup recipe sharing on p. 46.

Here's the new title and cover--on newstands in mid-March--Home and Heart. Submissions for August have closed, but it will be about holidays, I think. They probably won't use the word "Christmas" but I'm guessing that will be one of the traditions featured.





Homegrown Hospitality
June/July 2007(?), Premiere Issue
ISBN 1-933516-60 7; ISSN 0148-9127 (Paper Crafts Magazine special issue)
Subject: Crafts, paper, home decor, recipes
Publication schedule: na
CK Media, LLC.
14850 Pony Express Rd
Bluffdale, Utah 84065
212-448-4573, 801-984-2080
$5.99 single; no subscription information
http://www.homegrownhospitality.com
Chief Executive officer CK Media: David O'Neil
Editor-in-Chief: Stacy Croninger
Artist: Stephanie Ackerman
e-mail: editor@PaperCraftsMag.com
See Stephanie's blog for more information http://homegrownhospitality.typepad.com/homegrown_hospitality/

17 Taste of Home

There were two premiere issues of Taste of Home, one a premiere newsstand issue, Vol. 1, no. 2, April/May 1993 (cover is May/93) and the other called simply Premiere Edition 1993 (2). They have different covers and different content. This magazine features practical, down home recipes, with ingredients most cooks have on hand. It includes step-by-step instructions and special articles on frugal recipes, cooking for diabetics, brown bags, picnics, collecting, using herbs, using garden produce, and regional and seasonal favorites. The newsstand copy says

Putting out the first issue of a new magazine is a lot like putting your first meal on the table for your in-laws. Your stomach is a little tight. . . Our whole staff was like a bunch of new brides when we mailed the first issue. . .to people throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Of course, this is a magazine that boasts of being edited by a thousand country cooks. I have a subscription to this magazine, and that is still the policy 12 years later. There are removable pages in Taste of Home that can be cut apart into recipe cards. Of course, I wouldn’t do that, but I have photocopied some, and used the “Favorite Broccoli Salad” on p. 37 many, many times.

I got these first issues from Ruth, who turns 90 this year and lives in my home town in Illinois. She used to work for a magazine fulfillment agency and apparently also liked first issues and gave me her copies. She had also visited Reiman Publications in Wisconsin, the publisher of a number of glossy, nostalgic magazines. Ruth and my father grew up on adjoining farms in Pine Creek, Illinois, and her nephew and I were neighbors when we were little.

Taste of Home; the magazine edited by a thousand country cooks!
Premiere Edition 1993 (2)
April/May 1993, Vol. 1, No. 2, Premiere Newsstand Issue
ISSN: 1071-5878 (supplied)
Canadian GST No. R123204331
Subject: Cooking
Publication schedule, bimonthly
Reiman Publications
5400 S. 60th St.
Greendale WI 53129
$2.95; $16.98/year
http://www.reimanpub.com
Food editor: Mary Beth Jung
Senior Editor: Bob Ottum
Publisher: Roy Reiman