Fine Cooking Magazine Reviews

I purchased this magazine via ITunes app thinking I would get digital copies and have normal subscription access to online content, WRONG! If you buy this normal subscription price, you only get digital downloads, buy from Taunton fine cooking site for the same price and you get it all.

I can no longer access issues from half of 2015 to 2017. I started a new subscription not knowing if it would help or not. I called customer service -totally useless. This is why I may go back to paper.

Apparently if you have a print subscription it will not give you digital access with FineCookingMagazine.

For the third? Fourth? Time a software update results in issues lost. This time Holidays Special issue. Tiresome. Profoundly poor software testing.

FineCookingMagazine is terrible. I have lost all my old issues, won't recognize my email on login, and NO RESPONSE FROM CUSTOMER SERVICE. what a waste!

Nothing but error messages upon login. Missing older issues. Don’t you guys ever test this stuff before releasing it?

I just found Fine Cooking today, and I immediately started saving recipes to my new account! I was so excited I couldn't stop searching. The wealth of recipes is fabulous! Then I saw FineCookingMagazine , and immediately downloaded it.

That's where my excitement fizzled. Why can't I access all the recipes I saved? FineCookingMagazine is 100% useless unless you have a subscription. I'd have happily paid for FineCookingMagazine if I could get to my 'recipe box'. I was also considering ordering a subscription too, until I read all the reviews for FineCookingMagazine . There isn't a way to save and search for recipes? How am I supposed to remember what issue a recipe is in? So very sad. The only way for me to get to the recipes I saved is to access them via the website. I was greatly hoping to be able to take my iPhone with me to the grocery store and shop from a recipe list within FineCookingMagazine .

I had such high hopes for FineCookingMagazine. I'm so very disappointed now. I'm not much of a print reader anymore, but being to access that wealth of recipes on the go would have been priceless to me. I'd have paid for FineCookingMagazine and a subscription to get it.

I ❤️Fine Cooking but with the new app update it's asking me to purchase the newest issue:( I called but so far no luck! Help!

Strange things happening with Taunton. Latest FC mag would not download. Then app began to dump to IOS. Delete and reload. Pair with mag subscription. Same problem. Repeat. Paired. Now, not authorized to make purchase (FC only). Called Taunton. Never heard of such a problem. Solution suggested: call Apple.

Let the finger pointing begin.

When FineCookingMagazine worked it worked well. Now for me, useless.

Also Fine Woodworking is having graphic bugs. As I described them, Taunton never heard of that problem either. One app bad I can work with. But the second one getting buggy: a trend.

Addendum: deleted and re-downloaded again. Invoked FineCookingMagazine which then disappeared from the screen. Apple store now indicates that it's there to open but it's now assumed the characteristics of an invisible app! Don't want to go through a complete iOS reload. And it may be an iOS problem. Decision time. Taunton apps are the only ones giving me a hard time.

This is just a copy of each print magazine page and, because the copy is one inch shorter than the iPad screen, the type and photos are small. The resolution is not equal to the clarity of the retina display so this is a digital copy rather than a digital "edition". The price of this subscription is the same as the print plus digital subscription price which makes little sense considering that the digital quality is far inferior to the print magazine quality.

I have a subscription to FC plus the digital issues from 2012 but when they updated their app I could no longer receive them on my iPad. I called FC and found out my ipad (with old app) could no longer upgrade to the new iOS 11.4.1. I was planning on purchasing a new iPad anyway so when I tried to reinstall all the old issues again on the new, updated one I could not. Very frustrating! So I called FC again.
This time I was transferred to the Digital subscription dept and spoke to a woman: Debbie, who was EXTREMELY HELPFUL! First, she told me to delete the old app. Then download from FineCookingMagazine Store the FC app again. After that I opened FineCookingMagazine , put in my email and when it says to reinstall issues you must press “Subscriptions”, NOT digital. After a few seconds....all my magazines reappeared! So for those of you who still haven’t been able to get your passed issues try this, and thank Debbie in digital magazine dept. Great Magazine!

I am a long time a print format subscriber but I also love Fine Cooking Digital. Unlike many other magazines, this one works in both portrait and landscape. You can zoom in to the pictures and back out to see the entire page. It also gives you a visual hint of items you can click on and dive in. Thank you for not taking shortcuts, you've made this digital version really usable and therefore enjoyable. If I could ask for something- it would be other media type clips to help the experience - animation, video to illustrate techniques for example.

I downloaded FineCookingMagazine a while ago and I love having the magazine on my iPad. I did experience a similar problem as other reviewers in that the latest issue download failed and told me to connect to WiFi. I emailed the help desk and they were so helpful and diagnosed the problem as being low memory on my iPad. I took off some of the photos and videos stored and it worked just fine after that. Thank you so much for the technical support,a even though it wasn't your fault. I'm now back to normal and testing out new recipes on my family every week.

FineCookingMagazine and magazine are my favorites. The writing, recipes and photographs are excellent. It's the only food and cooking magazine for actual cooks -- the others are just "food porn" for observers and restaurant diners - or wannabe chefs. I use these recipes and tips in my kitchen all the time, especially at holidays. I cannot tell you how many hours I've spent enjoying cooking and eating from FineCookingMagazine on my iPad. And I don't understand what others have written about the functionality. I have never had a problem with it launching or working, on either my iPad (1 and 3) or iPhones (from iPhone 3, 4, 5 and now 6).

I have nothing but positive things to say about FineCookingMagazine. My favorite feature is that there are hot links on each page that will take you exactly where you expect them to. My second favorite feature is that you can see the hot links when you first land on a page. From a content perspective, I love the recipes in the magazine / app ... Fine Cooking is the first magazine I go to to find a dish I want to cook.