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Alimentum

The Literature of Food

Publisher’s description: Alimentum - The Literature of Food is the only literary review that focuses on the subject of food. Fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. We serve food in its finest form; sating a loftier appetite: juicy paragraphs, tasty stanzas, mouth-watering stories, surprisingly succulent essays. Our writers and poets capture food’s elusive character (it’s not just about what’s on your plate).

Our contributors have included Mark Kurlansky, Oliver Sacks, Joanna Torrey, Ann Hood, Tim Stark, Carly Sachs, Dick Allen, and Donald Newlove. In addition to our biannual print journal, we have a bite-sized online journal (with podcasts & videos) that changes throughout the year. We Also publish our annual menupoems broadside during National Poetry Month for distribution to participating restaurants.

Alimentum won Best Design award from the 2008 & 2009 New York Book Show Awards.

“Alimentum, a new journal about food, is small enough to carry with you for mental and aesthetic nourishment breaks.” — Florence Fabricant, The New York Times

“The pieces provide wonderfully thought-provoking snacking, best taken a nibble at a time to prolong the pleasure.” — Robin Maher Jenkins, Chicago Tribune

Recent issues:

Summer 2010 Issue Ten features poems from our Poetry Contest Winner and Runners-up, Interview with New York Times food columnist John T. Edge, New poems by Mark Kurlansky and Donald Newlove, Anthony Di Renzo's homage to broccoli rabe, Antonio Aiello's kitchen tale of an American-Italian-Korean family, Marilyn Murphy's cover art Sweet or Savory?, Illustrations by Maria Carluccio and much more.

Winter 2009 Issue Nine features our guest cover artist Marilyn Murphy with "Pie Wrangler," and Peter Selgin's essay of first love entwined with Norwegian cheese, Paul Silverman's story of reluctant horse-eating, Richard Schmitt's tale of power-hungry kids, interview with James Beard Award-winning author Deborah Madison, Alimentum art director Claudia Carlson's illustrations fruitcakes, Louis Dunn journeys along more Food Maps, poems by Jen Karetnick, Peter Marcus, Craig Cotter and more.

Summer 2009 Issue Eight includes an exclusive on the woodcut art of bestselling author Mark Kurlansky for his new translation of Zola's The Belly of Paris, an interview with Parisian food blogger Clotilde Dusoulier of Chocolate & Zucchini (hear excerpts in podcasts on our alimentumonline page), Food Maps by artist Louis Dunn, poetry by Elizabeth Swados and Cortney Davis, 33 writers and poets in all plus illustrations by Italian artist Daniela Tordi.