Gourmet
magazine is hitting newsstands again—but don't polish the Le Creuset casserole dish quite yet. Condé Nast is rolling out three special editions of the magazine packaged sort of like those massive People Style Watch mags you see in Barnes & Nobles. The first offering will be Gourmet Quick Kitchen, a collection of 81 quick, easy recipes out September 7. More cookbook than glossy, look for 120 pages of classic Gourmet recipes and photos, as well as new content, and wine pairings by Belinda Chang, Wine Director at The Modern. Two more special editions will be published in 2011, as part of Condé's push to utilize (and profit off) the magazine's extensive archives. While some Gourmet is better than no Gourmet at all, we can't help but miss the real thing.