Again, Fox and Obel regularly carries The Art of Eating. I don't know that they always have it, since it is issued but quarterly. I do see it for sale there, though, including within the past week or two. They also usually have Gastronomica available.

I wonder if Fox and Obel has some special arrangement...I think I saw The Rosengarten Report there on one trip.

I believe that it is custom practice at most bookstores and magazine outlets to pay only for those copies that are sold. I would guess that F&O has a special arrangement with these newsletters. Perhaps they are eating the cost of copies not sold?

Chow regularly appears at several bookstores, but it did not find it at the new downtown DePaul Barnes and Nobel bookstore.

Keep in mind that the city's best newsstand, City News on Cicero a few doors north of Irving Park, has a standing offer: Bring in any magazine that you bought in the city that they do not carry and they will pay you $5 and carry it forthwith.

(And to those who say "It's toooooo faaaaaaaaaaaar, there are newsstands all arrrrrrrrrround me," think about that the next time you're driving a half-hour for a destination hot dog or doughnut. )

pdaane wrote:Behr is a terrific writer, I am just not sure I want only his perspective on dining all the time.

To be perfectly honest, I prefer nearly every guest entry to his own. Why, exactly, is something that I will save for another thread.

Really my point is that it is one of the few culinary rags with integrity. It has vision in spades, too.

pdaane wrote:[...] I am often frustrated with the monothematic issues [...]

Those of us with O.C.D. delight in that particular feature.

E.M.