Format Frustrations

My friends and I have enjoyed some of the most delicious food we’ve ever eaten as a result of dishes I’ve made from recipes collected from the L.A. Times Food section. I’ve gotten more out of your Food section than I ever have from my subscriptions to various food periodicals. I always thought you were so savvy for printing the recipes in such a way that when I cut one out, it didn’t destroy a recipe I also wanted that was located on the other side of the page. I used to feel so smug when I’d go to other major cities and read their food sections and note that their recipes were not as well-situated and if you cut one out you ruined another.

Unfortunately I’ve got nothing to be smug about now. Why has your layout changed? This is a major pain; I’m not taking the paper to Kinko’s, I’m not copying them down and I’m not paying money to get them off the Internet. I just won’t have them, and as a result I won’t make them, and therefore I won’t be asked where I got the recipe and so I won’t be replying, “I got it out of the L.A. Times Food section.”

AINSLEE de WOLF WALES

Pacific Palisades