I currently subscribe to Cat Fancy and was looking at Modern Cat. Any ideas? Do you subscribe to a cat magazine??? I have found Cat Fancy to be getting filled with more and more ads! Modern Cat is only 4 times a year though........
Taste of Home used to be an ad-free cooking magazine, published by Reiman Publications. It was a very nice magazine and I was a very long-time subscriber. Then they said that they would put "a few" ads in the magazine and the ads would have some relationship to cooking. Well, that was how it started. Then Readers Digest took them over and it went all downhill from there. Every other page is an ad. There are ads for mattresses, for medicines, for everything. It was during that time, too, that the recipes changed and the magazine began to cater to the 30-minute, 5-ingredient kind of cooking that uses mostly cans and boxes. I cancelled my subscription and haven't looked back. It really isn't a magazine for people who like to cook (although there are a few recipes in the magazine for people like me); it's more for those who need to get the job done and fast and don't really care about anything else.
That being said, I don't subscribe to any magazines at the moment. I was subscribing to a Canadian magazine called Chatelaine but didn't renew after it expired. I used to subscribe to it many years ago and decided to try it again. It wasn't the same magazine that I remember. The newer version is filled with nothing but 14 year old models trying to sell anti-aging cream to 50 year olds! They do have some good recipes, but not worth my time wading through the rest to find them.