Lucky Peach
November 28th, 2011
Second issue of Lucky Peach hot off the presses!
Have you read this magazine? This second issue just arrived in my mailbox and I love it. The moment I heard that McSweeney’s was coming out with a food magazine I got a subscription. After the first two issues I can’t recommend Lucky Peach enough. I’m not the only one that loves it. This is the kind of food/drink magazine I’ve been dreaming of for a long time.
In Lucky Peach you won’t find page after page of fussy kitchen and food shots that require stylists and production teams and you won’t have to page through seemingly endless glossy ads until you get to the meat of the matter. There are paintings of past-its-prime blue cheese, recipe corrections composed in comics, how-to photos for killing and cleaning fish, and stickers! (The mock fruit stickers — you know these kinds of stickers but funny — are between page 112 and 113 in the second issue.) There’s cursing. There’s a haiku about corn with miso butter and bacon. There are honest and original stories with strong voices that you haven’t heard before that make you laugh, think and feel and want to cook and eat. It’s real, raw and it’s ripe for the picking. Go get yourself a Lucky Peach.
December 6th, 2011 at 9:24 am
I really love Lucky Peach, too. As I have said to friends, there’s something affirming and refreshing about a food magazine with regular sprinkles of salty language. My kitchen is full of it. Your risotto up there looks amazing, Liz.
December 6th, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Thanks Cathy! I’m glad you’re onto Lucky Peach too. I love it. I haven’t used any of the recipes yet but I’m looking forward to making the Momofuku Milk Bar banana cream pie soon. It sounds really good and I like the way that they laid out the recipe with drawings and photos. I’ll comment here after I make it and let you know how it was…