{"id":89,"date":"2009-10-08T11:19:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T15:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chefjudigallagher.com\/scrumptious\/?p=89"},"modified":"2011-03-26T19:16:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T23:16:38","slug":"a-sad-day-for-foodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chefjudigallagher.com\/scrumptious\/a-sad-day-for-foodies\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sad Day For Foodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a sad day for foodies: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Gourmet Magazine<\/span> is closing.<\/p>\n<p>For one who was professionally nurtured and creatively developed by this standard bearer of culinary periodicals, it is indeed a loss! And, I do not know where to begin.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Gourmet Mag\u2019 was an integral part of my life since my graduation from Johnson and Wales, back twenty-five+ spring-times ago. I lived for their eclectic, monthly covers and the editors\u2019 incisive food commentary. The additional information on travel and life, in general, was just a welcomed added dimension.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I digest culinary magazines \u2013 page by page, picture by picture. I, cunningly, anticipated the cover and, somewhat sinisterly relished the months that I beat them to the punch &#8212; having already cooked the main cover dish on ABC7 or tossed the idea on my blog.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Michael Green, the famed wine consultant from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Gourmet Magazine<\/span> and I cruised to Alaska several years ago on a Crystal food and wine spectacular. In typical, practical \u2018Gourmet\u2019 fashion, Michael taught me that <em>fine wine <\/em>should be judged not on price point, but on the deeper nuances of \u2018dish matchability\u2019 and individual taste-preference.<\/p>\n<p>On an even more personal note, my step son, Sean, delivered a subscription to Gourmet on our first Christmas together \u2013 and has followed through ever since.<\/p>\n<p>The times they are a changin\u2019: not all for good, not all for bad \u2013 and many, simply, with raw emotion that manifests a changing economy \u2013 and a new order of things!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a sad day for foodies: Gourmet Magazine is closing. For one who was professionally nurtured and creatively developed &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"A Sad Day For Foodies\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/chefjudigallagher.com\/scrumptious\/a-sad-day-for-foodies\/#more-89\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Sad Day For Foodies\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chefjudigallagher.com\/scrumptious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chefjudigallagher.com\/scrumptious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chefjudigallagher.com\/scrumptious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chefjudigallagher.com\/scrumptious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chefjudigallagher.com\/scrumptious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chefjudigallagher.com\/scrumptious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chefjudigallagher.com\/scrumptious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chefjudigallagher.com\/scrumptious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chefjudigallagher.com\/scrumptious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}