Farewell, Gourmet. After nearly 70 years, Conde Nast will stop publishing the magazine.

The Biscuit thought it was important to mark the event because of how Gourmet affected this blog’s perception of eating in Chapel Hill.

Four years ago, The Biscuit came down to Chapel Hill from Boston expecting to find nothing more for food than greasy pizza and stale biscuits.

On the second day here, however, an issue of Gourmet caught The Biscuit’s eye in the grocery store’s checkout aisle. The cover lauded the best 50 restaurants in America, one of which, The Biscuit surely thought, had to be in Boston.

Boston did have one; The Triangle had two.

Seeing that Lantern and Magnolia Grill had made the list let The Biscuit know his four years here would not be a culinary disappointment. Soon, he’d be eating everywhere he could in the area.

Check out a eulogy for the magazine in the New York Times written by the publisher of Cook’s Illustrated, Christopher Kimball. Besides remembering Gourmet for what it was, he offers an intriguing criticism of journalism’s current ailing business model.

Lastly, The Dorm Cook, a new blog about dorm room dining at UNC, broke the news. Give them a peek.

R.I.P.