Most of the best food and drink print magazines also have a good online presence. Here’s a list of some of them.

These magazine also offer several freebies for foodies - recipes, newsletters, competitions, and in some cases even a free trial subscription.

Art Culinaire - creative chefs, dynamic photos, recipes and articles to entertain and educate. (USA)

The Art of Eating - a foodie quarterly including recipes, resources, articles. (USA)

Bartender - cocktail recipes, competitions, events, news and lots more for professional and amateur bartenders. (USA)

BBC Good Food - probably Britain's most popular food magazine. It's full of recipes, competitions, news, events, and ubiquitous celebrity chefs. I subscribed to this for years but cancelled the subscription when the publication was dumbed down by the then editor Orlando Murrin. Still, it seems to be very successful in its niche for the "can't cook, won't cook" type of reader. (UK)

BBC Olive Magazine - a sister site of BBC Good Food, intended to be for modern foodies. (I used to subscribe to this until I got bored with it. Please see my review.) It was difficult to find a direct link to it, without them trying to flog me a subscription, as it seems to be accessible only via BBC Good Food. (UK)

BBC Easy Cook - another relative newcomer to the BBC stable. I've never actually seen this magazine in real life but judging by its somewhat downmarket cover it looks like it's been designed for the dumb and dumber. Again, it's accessible via BBC Good Food. (UK)

Better Homes and Gardens Magazine - 15,000 easy recipes, meal ideas and party foods. (USA)

Bon Appétit - sister site of Epicurious. Contains lots of recipes and articles for the foodie. (USA)

Chile Pepper - recipes, news, travel, salsas and sauces. lifestyle articles. (USA)

Cooking Light - "Eat smart. Be fit. Live well." (Their blurb.) [Die anyway. (Not Delia)] A goldmine of information for those interested in healthy eating. (USA)

Cook's Illustrated - billed as America's test kitchen. Lots of recipes, how to cook features, equipment reviews and a bookstore. (USA)

Cuisine - food, wine and good living. Judged the best food magazine in the world at the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards 2007. (NZ)

Cuisine at home - the cooking class magazine. Lots of recipes, reviews and articles. Also offers free recipes by email and a free trial subscription. (USA)

Delicious - this is a pretty good magazine which I usually buy if I see it. Unfortunately the Australian media has also become obsessed with Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver, so I don't know how long this will continue to be one of my favourite foodie magazines. (Aus)
There's also a UK version, which I've never seen.

donna hay magazine - this magazine is a delight and an absolute bargain when you compare it with the price of buying a cookbook. I buy this every time I see it and will probably get around to subscribing (if Mr Not Delia lets me have some more pocket money). Donna Hay is a superb cook and writes some excellent no-fuss recipes. I rated her Modern Classics Book 1 as my top choice in my top ten cookbooks of 2008.(Aus)

Eating Well - where good taste meets good health. Everything about food and nutrition for the health conscious foodie. Free trial available. (USA)

Food and Wine Magazine - features recipes and chefs, wine and cocktails, restaurants and travel, plus entertaining and home. (USA)

Gastronomica - the journal of food and culture. Attractive arty-looking magazine portraying food in the context of culture and society. (USA)

Good Housekeeping - household name magazine with a good recipes and entertaining section. (USA)

Gourmet Traveller - one of Australia's premier magazines about food and travel. It includes news, reviews, recipes and events. This is my current favourite foodie magazine and, as a subscriber, I look forward to receiving it every month. (Aus)

Great British Food - a relative newcomer on the scene with an emphasis on regional food and producers and suppliers. (UK)

Imbibe - everything for the lover of wine, spirits, tea, coffee and any other liquid nectar. (USA)

InterMezzo - food, wine, and travel. Recipes and travel features with a foodie theme. (USA)

Saveur - just about everything for the foodie. Free trial subscription available. (USA)

Taste of Home - a magazine packed full of information, recipes, articles and many free offers. (USA)

Waitrose Food Illustrated - monthly magazine packed full of recipes and foodie articles from this leading British supermarket. (UK)

Wine Spectator - news, events, reviews, tastings. Everything for the wine enthusiast. (USA)

Have I missed any good ones? Please use the comments facility to let me know so I can add them. Thanks! (Please note this list only includes print magazines. I'll be doing e-zines and websites later.)

We looked at the Food and Travel sections of the magazine in Part 1. Now it's time to look at the Regulars and Features.

Regulars Section

This is absolutely crammed with information and things of interest for the food lover. There are book reviews, restaurant reviews, a master class about making puff pastry (another good one for a photo essay), chefs’ recipes, other recipes, and more. I particularly enjoyed AA Gill’s humorous think-piece where he makes a case for having anti-travel awards, and his top nine of “…Things You Thought You Wanted To Do But You Really Shouldn’t Bother”. Great stuff!

And finally we get to the

Features Section

Guess what? They’ve got a feature on Gordon Ramsay. I respect the guy’s cooking and he does make some highly entertaining telly programmes, but sometimes I get the feeling that even if I was in a remote cave in Bhutan he’d still be there somehow. Is there anywhere in the world where one can escape Ramsay’s ubiquitous presence? If you want more of Ramsay they have an audio video of him on their website (I haven’t felt the need to listen to it yet):
http://www.gourmettraveller.com.au/

There's also an interesting feature about eating out in London.

It's hard to do justice to this magazine in a short review. There's so much in it. If you get a chance to buy one – and it may not be widely available outside Australia – I highly recommend you give it a go.

This is a whopping big magazine for the money. Its cover price is A$8.50 and for that you get more than 200 pages of goodies. Admittedly there are lots of adverts in there too, but that’s always the way with glossy magazines. I liked this magazine so much that I subscribed to it. My subscription to Olive is due to expire and I felt that a change would be good. So, without further ado, let's have a look at what's in the magazine.

I have the June 2008 issue which, being Aussie, concentrates on the winter kitchen. The magazine consists of four main sections: Food, Travel, Regulars and Features.

Food Section

In this issue, the Food section has a big feature on curry. Not just yer usual curries, mind you, but Sri Lankan and Mauritian curries, as well as Indian. I feel some photo essays coming on. Some magazines use the ARS technique (annual repeating stories recycled with a slightly different angle in an attempt to make them seem “new”). But Gourmet Traveller really does seem to have a bit of a flair for the unusual.

Also in the Food section there’s soup, pork belly, Sicilian cooking, and how to cook caramel. The recipe index is at the back of the magazine and takes up a whole page. I’ve seen cookbooks with fewer recipes than this. I think it’s great value for money.

Travel Section

There’s quite a lot in the Travel Section, including their 2008 Travel Awards where Gourmet Traveller readers and a panel of judges have voted for Australia’s best travel operators. Somehow I wonder if AA Gill would approve (see later).

There are also interesting features, and lots of great photos about Telluride (a Colorado ski resort) and Australia’s Kangaroo Island, “where utter isolation is its biggest drawcard”. There’s also travel news and a Q&A piece where readers can have their questions answered.

There’s loads in this magazine – please see Part 2 for more.