Even recipes are better online

That title's a little sensationalist, but as someone who loves to cook, I've found that the internet even beats my favorite foodie magazine Bon Appetit. In magazine form, honestly, it has too many ads and too many stories about food and wine at restaurants I will likely never visit.

I feel like a traitor to my profession having said that honestly. But I get the magazine for the recipes, and one site - epicurious.com - gives me all those and more. The site pulls recipes from the archives of Bon Appetit, Gourmet and healthy recipes from SELF.

(There may be some more, but those are the main ones I care about.)

Anyway, thinking about how I kind of really do feel like getting my recipes is better online than going to the printed product made me feel like a hypocrite. To an extent, I am like those people who pick up The Daily Texan (or whatever newspaper you like) just to do the Crossword, or just to read the classifieds or get movie times.

But it is an undeniable fact of our generation - we want what we want, nothing else and nothing more. So how do we reconcile that with the fact that without those ads and extraneous stuff, these publications can't afford to put out the stuff we like (unless they are entirely internet based, but that requires hosts who are willing to keep things consistent for a rather small profit (if there is any profit at all.))

So what am I saying? Basically that we all need to be aware of what we are doing when we put on our blinders and search the web for only what we want to see. Me, I'm going to remind myself at the grocery store that picking up Bon Appetit could also give me good tips on how to do things and how others do things in addition to just providing me with recipes.

And if we want the Web site half of the site to continue, we sure better keep reading in print.