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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:

Issue 12, Summer 2011, features an interview with James Beard winner, New York Times Editor, and Food52.com creator Amanda Hesser; Micheal Czyzniejewski’s story of a family wrestling with beef; Jon Irwin explores wine-inspired writing; Joanna Clapps Herman tests an Italian taboo; recipe ingredients bring to life Phillip Sterling’s personal history; D.R. Bartlette stocks up on low-tech kitchen gadgets of yore; Jennifer Justus’ Marriage in Meals; cover art by Marilyn Murphy (“The Jell-O Incident”) spot illustrations by James Dankert; poetry by Stephen Gibson, Catherine Freeling, Nancy Vienneau, Cynthia Gallaher... Plus: recipes for musicians, rock-solid sponge cake, the repast of Joyce Carol Oates, the Tuscan gelato diet, and much more...

Alimentum’s 5th Anniversary issue (11, Winter 2011) with writing by all of our editors and designers. Poems from Paulette Licitra, Cortney Davis, Ruth Polleys. Essays from Peter Selgin, Claudia Carlson, Eric LeMay, Duane Spencer. Fiction by Esther Cohen. Interview with Knopf editor Judith Jones. Ann Hood’s The Golden Silver Palate; Poems by Ricardo Pau-Llosa; Amy Halloran’s nurse meets an angry baking-monk, Barry Foy’s Second Thoughts about a bonbon in the trash, illustrations by Nicole K. Docimo... Plus: why coffee and writing go together, murder by eggplant, a pub waitress is secretly inspired by some frequent guests, scary strawberries, shrimp obsessions, corn muffin addiction, and more.

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.