In honor of the new Cooking Light Pick Fresh Cookbook, we want to see your best photos of gorgeous, seasonal produce on Instagram! From April 10th through May 15th, snap a photo of what’s growing in your garden or what you’re picking up at your local market, upload it to your Instagram account, and tag it with the hashtag #CLpickfresh. […]
$50 Holiday Giveaway: Share Your Holiday Money-Saving Tips
The holidays are officially upon us, and let’s admit, with “the most wonderful time of the year” can come a good amount of stress. Grocery lists and gift lists are growing, and the pressure of sticking to a budget can often be shoved aside to worry about in the New Year. So let’s get ahead of the budget walk of […]
Share Your Photos for a Chance to Win!
In the spirit of celebrating our 25th anniversary, we are eager for you to share photos of your favorite Cooking Light dishes. Upload your photos here, and include which issue it came from for a chance to win 2 amazing prizes from our friends at KitchenAid (see full details below..hint…one of them is a stand mixer!). Is your favorite Cooking […]
The Way We Bake
Baking is, no doubt, a science. Not a science that requires a degree in chemical engineering, but it still requires some measure of attention. As someone who’d rather bake than do many, many other things, I have gone down the misguided path of “winging it,” much to my disappointment. You can’t really throw in a pinch of this and that […]
Cooking Light + Kids
From McDonald’s to the White House, there’s no doubt that the state of children’s health and nutrition are in the news. Whether it’s born from a smart marketing plan or from genuine concern, most can agree that this is an issue worth your attention. You may have noticed more kid-friendly recipes in Cooking Light magazine in recent months, and we […]
Cooking Light Goes Gluten-Free in a New Cookbook
Gluten-Free products, recipes, and restaurant menu items are popping up everywhere, and at Cooking Light we've heard your call for a recipe collection developed exclusively for those on a gluten-free diet. Coming very soon, The Cooking Light Gluten-Free Cookbook is arriving in book stores, and I've got a first-bound copy on my desk to prove it. I've flipped through and […]
Holiday Giveaway: Your Photos on Display
At Cooking Light, we take care to create memorable food photography. We hope every dish in the pages of the magazine and on CookingLight.com makes you want to dive in, and for those who have been involved with a food photo shoot, it’s no easy task. Hours can be spent placing the herbs just-so or getting that perfect drizzle. […]










