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FAMOUS FOR MY DINNER PARTIES ISSUE 002 — RAGES! CRAZES! THE FOOD FAD ISSUE
Famous for my dinner parties issue 002 is small and cute, but it’s bigger than issue 001 in all the important ways: Coming in at 100 pages, it has more collaborators, more articles, more photos and illustrations. This time around, the issue centres around a single theme: the food fad. Because, whether we like it or not, food fads tell us a lot about who we are as people, about our cultures and societies, how we see others and what it is we want for ourselves. Famous for my dinner parties’ approach to cultural analysis with a fun and lighthearted touch is the perfect way to tackle food fads — because they are often as ridiculous as they are serious.
Created by Sandra Mayer-Myrtenhain, Yannic Moeken and Junshen Wu. Design by Lind Haugaard. Illustrations by Eilis Dart and Gemma Wilson, additional photography by Kenneth Lam. Text contributions by Celina Baljeet Basra, Aida Baghernejad, Anna Broujean, Jonas Borchers, Kavita Goodstar, Suyin Haynes, Alex Kil, Chris O’Leary and Sarmistha Pantham.
The 1975 film Jeanne Dielman gives its audience the opposite of modern, polished, high-paced food content, but tells us more about the meaning of food.
The 1975 film Jeanne Dielman gives its audience the opposite of modern, polished, high-paced food content, but tells us more about the meaning of food.
What does it mean when those who preach a return to a ‘natural’ diet also sell supplements for those in a pinch? And how do the ideas behind the ‘Whopper Virgins’ relate to those on finds on Infowars?
In 2008, Burger King set out to beat its competitors with a controversial ad campaign: What do the “Whopper Virgins” say about today’s viral foodscape?
Dialling into the internet back in 1997, no one had any clue how the world wide web would not only change the way we live, but also the way we eat.
Writer Alex Heeyeon Kil tries to understand her mother and finds it impossible to do so — except during those quiet moments when everybody is eating.
Not all food fights are wasteful. Sometimes, history can take a turn — by way of an egg, a pie, a milkshake.
Is it even Christmas without Engelsaugen, Schwarz-weiß-Gebäck and Zimtsternen? Not in Germany.
Whether it’s peanut butter, regular butter, fish or candy — the way to anyone’s heart is through food. These artists knew that too.
If food is an artform, then what does that make a burger that can be bought from Dubai to Medellín?
The Futurists envisioned a world in which food would become non-essential and could thus be turned into a work of art — where do we stand now?