I first started reading Cooking Light in the mid-1990s, when I was still living in a college dorm. I didn’t have a kitchen, but sometimes the cover would catch my eye from the newsstand and I’d buy the latest copy. In addition to delicious sounding recipes with lots of photos, they also had healthy living product reviews, nutrition information, workouts, and more. Not too long after that, I moved out of the dorm to a little house with a kitchen and my parents got me a subscription.
I remember the first double issue (Cooking Light publishes one double issue a year that has tons of holiday recipes and gift ideas) I received had the recipe for Easy Chocolate-Caramel Brownies on the front. I HAD to make them right away, but I didn’t have a car to drive to the grocery store. So I walked to a little convenience store a little ways off and paid too much for all the ingredients but was so happy to bake (and eat!) the brownies.
Since then, I have subscribed to the magazine off and on, depending on whether someone was giving it to me as a gift or I could read it at the library. I saved my back issues for years, only giving them up when we moved to Florida. (They took up too much space.) Fortunately, like many magazine publishers, Southern Progress Corporation realized putting their recipes and features online does not diminish their print readership. Find Cooking Light and sister magazine’s recipes at MyRecipes. A recent change in design, layout, and focus has made Cooking Light a joy to read and savor.
This year’s double issue includes a holiday party on the cheap, spectacular food gifts to make and give (toasted coconut marshmallows, cranberry liqueur and more), great gadgets and gifts for cooks, new takes on Christmas cookies and much much more.
I like this magazine so much that I am renewing my own subscription and giving some subscriptions as Christmas gifts as well.
Cooking Light publishes 12 issues a year (the double issue counts as 2.)
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