Are you looking to find the perfect cooking magazine subscriptions for holiday gifts? Or maybe you want to try a new cooking magazine for the new year, but don’t want to go to the bookstore to look at everything before you order online to get the best price?
Stop by CookingZines.com, a cooking magazine review site, which helps you answer three basic questions:
- What kind of cooking information and articles can I expect to find inside each magazine?
- Will I (or my family) like the recipes in each issue of this magazine? Or will they be too fancy, plain, gourmet, complicated, etc.?
- What is the most convenient and least expensive way to order the subscription online?
What’s cooking at Cookingzines.com?
Go to Cookingzines.com and click on the name of the magazine you’d like to know more about. So far, the site only has 10 magazines, but they’re adding more all the time. I was impressed that they had a magazine I wasn’t familiar with, Diabetic Cooking, along with such popular magazines as Taste of Home.
The magazine I checked out first was Rachael Ray's Cooking Magazine, which I’m familiar with because I have a subscription.
I looked over a few online magazine ordering sites and $24 was the best price I could find, too. The description was fairly accurate and pointed out the negatives and the positives. However, they left out that the magazine also features recipes to make pet treats, which would appeal to readers who love to cook and have pets, and shopping guides for kitchen and house wares.
Improvements to the site
Cookingzines.com is a great idea. I love that it’s your “one stop shop” for all things cooking magazine related and that you can use them to get a good deal on a magazine subscription. However, it needs more content – more magazines, and more reader reviews. Another idea would be for them to add a blog to review the current month’s cooking magazines, feature a recipe, or highlight magazine news like a redesign.
I’d also like to see more shopping alternatives. For example, Cookingzine.com should always list Amazon’s price along with the best price available. Some people may have an Amazon gift card or other purchases in mind and want to shop at Amazon instead of shopping at several places even if the Amazon price is a few bucks more.
I know that Editor Dan Joseph is working on many of these issues, but could use your help. Please stop by and leave a review of your favorite (or not so favorite) magazine. If you’re in the shopping mood, get a subscription or two, and sign up for the CookingZines.com Cooking Newsletter, too.
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