|
Vegetarian Times (1-year) | 
| Publisher: Active Interest Media
List Price: $44.91
Buy New: $12.00
You Save: $32.91 (73%)
Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 18
Format: Magazine Subscription, Print
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 9
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 9
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks
ASIN: B000IOMPZ6
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Promotion: Data not available Terms and Conditions
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 months
| |
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com Review
Editorial Reviews Who Reads Vegetarian Times?
Vegetarian Times is written for those at the forefront of the healthy living movement. Published nine times a year, it provides delicious recipes, expert wellness information, and environmentally sound lifestyle solutions for both full-time and part-time vegetarians. Replete with beautiful photography and articles from leading experts, Vegetarian Times will be of interest to anyone with a passion for eating healthy while staying environmentally conscious.
What You Can Expect in Each Issue:
- Health: Vital food, health, and nutrition news. Nutritionists and doctors answer questions about vegetarian lifestyles.
- Eco-Beauty: Presenting environmentally friendly, cruelty-free beauty buys.
- Quick: All about making great tasting meals in not a lot of time. Expect to read about healthful and delicious 30 minute meals, and dishes you can make using just 5 ingredients.
- Life--Carrot and Stick: Who walks the walk and who's nothing but talk. Tips to make your habitat healthier and become more eco-enlightened travelers
- Cuisine: Editors find creative new ways to incorporate your favorite flavors into dishes.
- Vegan Gourmet: Our popular plant-based column.
- Features: From recipe contests to eco-friendly advise, features run the gamut of information that vegetarians crave most. Recent stories have included "10 Ways to Green your Fridge," "South American Superfoods," and "Earth to Table Herbs."
Past Issues: Contributors: Contributors range from Restaurateurs, chefs, nutritionists, artists. These people are carefully selected for their passion and knowledge of vegetarian food and the accompanying lifestyle. Magazine Layout Each issue features beautiful food photography, focusing on a soft palette of colors for long reading sessions. Comparisons to Other Magazines The magazine is written for both vegetarians and flexitarians alike. It promotes a healthy vegetarian lifestyle without putting guilt on those who eat meat. The editors strive to bring readers articles in a positive light without preaching and politics. Advertising Readers will find advertisements mainly from companies making vegetarian foods products. Additional frequent advertisements include supplements, cruelty-free beauty products and eco-friendly products. Most advertisements include a "Reader Service" option so readers may request more information about specific products.
Product Description
Vegetarian Times is the magazine of great food, good health, and smart living. Each issue is packed with mouth-watering recipes that taste great-and are good for you too. You'll find new tastes, old favorites, and tips on how to cook with fewer calories and less fat.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 17 more reviews...
 I want to like this magazine... October 23, 2006
shoebox36 (New York City)
36 out of 41 found this review helpful
I really do want to like this magazine. For one, the cover is almost so pretty and comforting, plus they cover many aspects that may be of concern to vegetarian lifestyle, such as environment, health, politics, etc.
However, the recipes are inconsistent. Some, like the readers' best, can be excellent. Many of their other recipes fall short though, some by glaring oversight (for example, forgetting salt). Also, their 'ethnic' recipes usually aren't that great. Their preoccupation with lowfat recipe also unfortunately lead to sacrific of taste. And seriously does anyone think PAM is healthier than olive oil??
VT is really best when it focuses on American classics done vegetarian. Things like chilis, pot pies, and casseroles.
I still give this 4 stars because I think except for the recipes, the magazine isn't all that bad, plus there aren't many other competitors for this market. Their CS has been very friendly when I called. If you aren't as picky as I am about getting the exact recipes right, then this is a nice magazine. As for me, once my subscription stops, I'm switching to buying time-tested recipes books instead.
 A great source of veggie/ vegan recipes, health, and lifestyle info September 2, 2007
Veggiechiliqueen
25 out of 26 found this review helpful
After admiring Vegetarian Times on magazine racks for countless months, I finally took the plunge and ordered a one-year subscription. VT features numerous helpful product reviews, vegetarian / vegan recipes, health info, interviews, and a spotlight on green restaurants and businesses around the country. The Carrot & Stick section gives kudos to earth-friendly businesses and institutions and shines a light on animal rights violators. For me, this helps me decide which companies will receive my business based on their track record on environmentalism, recycling, and animal rights.
The biggest downside is the amount (and size) of advertising; the already-thin monthly issues feel like they're 50% full-page ads targeted at vegetarians / vegans. This definitely detracted from an otherwise artistic, well-laid-out magazine. Personally, I feel that full-page ads are redundant in the Internet age; I'd much rather have a list of advertisers' products / websites at the back of the magazine, although I realize that advertising revenues are an essential evil inherent to the business.
Many of VT's monthly recipes are ethnic in nature; I was pleasantly surprised to see that the September issue featured vegetarian makeovers of several High Holy Days standards such as Mock Chopped Liver, Noodle Kugel with Caramelized Apples and Raisins, Sephardic Stufffed Cabbage, and Chocolate Apricot Rugalach. It's really rare to find Jewish vegetarian recipes in mainstream magazines, so I greatly appreciated the inclusion (for more Jewish vegetarian ideas, check out Olive Trees and Honey: A Treasury of Vegetarian Recipes from Jewish Communities Around the World and The Jewish Vegetarian Year Cookbook).
VT's recipes, many of which can be adapted to vegan, use common ingredients and are within the realm of weeknight preparation; I haven't found many recipes that rated "too health-foody" or "just plain out there." Vegetarian Times is an excellent investment for today's vegetarian or vegan, and even for those questioning carnivores who are looking to add more fruits and veggies into their diets.
Great for Non Vegetarians too June 16, 2007
sfagrad (Joaquin, TX)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
I got this magazine to help give me more ideas on how to cook more veggies. I absolutely LOVE it. They have such great recipes in every issue. I am never disappointed. And its not chocked full of ad's, as some of those other more well known magazines are. If you're tired of eating the same veggies, cooked the same way, then you should give this magazine a try.
 Okay, not great. August 2, 2008
D. Farrow (Shell Beach, CA)
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
I've read and have been a subscriber for years. Vegetarian for most of my life.
The magazine goes through editors like we go through soy milk. They just can't find their way it seems.
These days, most recipes call for expensive and / or hard to find ingredients. Worse, some call for pre-made items that just can't be found. Case in point, the latest issue with the very yummy looking pizza on the cover? You will not find the recipe for the crust in the magazine. Funny, eh? Also, the magazine, for the most part, ignores the male reader.
After all this time, I'm saying farewell to VT. With a host of wonderful blogs on the net, and amazing cooks who generously share there "secrets", I'll save the trees it takes to produce this advertising biased magazine.
Something of a disappointment October 6, 2008
Maxwell Johnson (Orlando,, FL, USA)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
First, the disclaimer. I am not a vegetarian. I have, however, planned many vegetarian menus and cooked thousands of vegetarian meals, both professionally and at home.
This magazine has a rather quaint approach to cover art and illustrations that reminds me of magazines that my mom read in the sixties. Apart from its appearance, the recipes are wildly inconsistent. Some are very good, fast, and easy to prepare. Others are bland and lifeless, reinforcing the misconception that vegetarian food is uninteresting and "healthy tasting." Some of the recipes contain obvious errors and omissions or call for such odd proportions that one wonders if they were tested prior to publication.
Vegetarian Times seems to try reasonably hard to avoid the sanctimony and self-righteousness that afflicts so many publications in this genre. Nonetheless, there is enough polemicizing to annoy when it intrudes on the culinary purposes of the magazine.
My final observation is that this magazine has one of the worst advertisement-to-content ratios that I've ever seen. In a couple of recent issues, the ratio of ads to recipes is nearly one to one. I don't mind paying a reasonable price for a useful publication but I do object to paying for the privilege of reading marketing hype.
Bottom line? There are better vegetarian cookbooks readily available through Amazon or other dealers. Robin Robertson and Madhur Jaffrey both offer superior alternatives.
|
|
|
We'll be adding even more exciting features to assist you in the coming year.
Thank you for shopping at the Depot.com online shopping depot.
©2008 Depot.com | |
