Lucky Peach is a quarterly journal of food and writing. Each issue focuses on a single theme, and explores that theme through essays, art, photography, and recipes.
My favorite 5 pieces from this issue: --"McChampagne Wishes and McCaviar Dreams" by Jen Choi --"Fantastic Mister Fox" by Rachel Khong --"Pork Life" by Todd Kliman --Profiles in Obsession: Rich Collins / Endive Farmer by Rachel Khong --"The Middle Box" by Lee Ellis (including the amazing paper collage work of Michael Tunk)
Every issue keeps knocking it out the park. They are tightening their game. The articles are the perfect length - long when they need to be long and short when they need to be short. Top notch all around. Subscriber for life.
I particularly liked this issue, all about food obsessions in the many forms they can take -- and a particularly good fiction piece closing out the issue. If all magazines were as good as Lucky Peach, I wouldn't have time to read books.
I still love love love this magazine, but the stories were a bit uneven because, let's face it - obsession can sometimes be a bore to those who aren't obsessed with that thing.