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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:

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.

Winter 2009 Issue Seven features the winner of the Alimentum French Culinary Institute Craft of Food Writing Contest: Kristen Aiken. Plus: an interview with Alan Richman, Ray Chen Smith on the trail of an egg thief at a Chinese Socialist camp (it’s a comedy!), Barry Foy’s Useful Kitchen Knots (w/illustrations), Eric LeMay cries Stink! in his love story to cheese, Patrick Schultz’s Deep Freeze on getting stoned in the restaurant freezer, Aurora Brackett encounters Luciano Pavarotti’s mother, Caroline Cummins sips a cocktail with Raymond Chandler, and poems by Jen Karetnik, Alison Townsend, Leslie McGrath, Carly Sachs, Stephen Gibson, and more.