They don't seem to spam too much. I subscribed the magazine, and was really honked off b/c that did not include access to the website. Not only that, but I've had mixed results from the recipes from the magazine.
My family didn't think their "improvement" on oatmeal snack cake was an improvement at all, iin fact every single one preferred the old recipe. No one liked the supposedly superior corn bread. The herbed chicken was not very tasty. My usual method of brining & baking was not only better, it was easier. I could go on.
My biggest disappointment came from the blueberry scone recipe. It was so loaded with butter, that it leached out all over my cookie sheet when it bakes, I had more butter on the cookie sheet than in the scones. I did like the idea of booking the batter and pressing the frozen blueberries in, and when I tried that with a regular scone recipe off the side of a bag of flour, they were very good.
So I would not pay to subscribe to either the web of magazine again. Most of my best recipes come off of the web, like Chef Talk's Betty R who came up with a real winner with her yellow cake recipe. (Much better and easier than the one in ATK magazine that I have, btw).
Donna
