"Each issue will explore a single topic through a mélange of travelogue, essays, art, photography, interviews, rants, and, of course, recipes. The journal will be full color and perfect bound, with an eye toward exploring new recipe designs. The aim of Lucky Peach is to create a publication that appeals to diehard foodies as well as fans of good writing and art in general"--From publisher's website.

Scribbled in loose papers, collected in notebooks or carefully compiled in cookbooks, food recipes have been preserved and transferred in various ways over time. This lesson plan provides an overview of the culture and history of recipe books and food writing. It explores how recipe books have changed over time and how people understood and used these texts for multiple purposes. This module presents a variety of approaches-historical, literary, anthropological, and philosophical-to the study of recipe books and addresses how we can use recipes as evidence to understanding broader historical and contemporary societies.

Scotland has some of the best seafood in the world, so we why don't we eat more of it? Why don't we highlight the bounty of our seas and the people who fish, produce, sell, preserve and cook it? Acclaimed cooker writer Ghillie Basan embarks on a journey around Scotland's coasts and islands to capture the essence of our nation's seafood.