I cannot believe that an institution in American culture and cooking is closing down its doors. Gourmet magazine will be missed but for a smile on this sad day, take a walk down memory lane with the original issue from 1941. Reminds me why photography makes our mouths water so much more than illustration but the magazine promised then what it has to me in my lifetime to-date “good food, good drink, fine living … the universal language of the gourmet”. Cheers to a another wonderful publication that is bowing its head to the pressures of the ever growing strength of online competition.