Though I love to write about my experiences with food, I'm not much of a reader of food writing. I use cookbooks mostly for recipes (though some, like Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook are so much fun that even I cannot resist them), barely page through cooking magazines, and cannot make myself follow any food blogs. I'm just not a food reader, what can I say?

It's probably for that reason that I did not fall in love with Food & Wine magazine when I started receiving it. It contains lots of long articles about things I care very little about, it has an altogether "posh/foodie" sort of feeling (so very 2005) and I can never find any recipes I want to make. I got the July issue today and I was just about to write lambasting it when, to my great surprise, I actually found some articles I wanted to read (e.g., one on the guy who won Top Chef). First time, I think.

Still, one good issue will not make me renew my subscription.