Issued Feb. 1966-July 1966 as editions of the Progressive farmer.

Occasional column entitled: Cooking light, published from 1983-1986, cumulated in the 1986-1987 volumes of the annual publication: Cooking light, published by Oxmoor House. In 1986 the column was then continued by a greatly expanded separate periodical publication entitled: Cooking light, published by Southern Living, Inc. and also cumulated by the annual publication with the same name. Cf. Preface, 1997 issue of Cooking light annual recipes.

Latest issue: Vol.45 No.7 (Jul 2010).