Famous For My Dinner Parties, Issue 003

After three years online, the Berlin-based food culture magazine Famous For My Dinner Parties is going paper!

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.

In this issue:

Famous For My Dinner Parties parties is back for issue 003! After the ‘best-of’ character of issue 001 and the mono-themed ‘food fad issue’ 002, number three is again somewhat more loosely conceived — less of a theme issue than a concept zine that aims to tap into certain elements of the zeitgeist. It consists of ten brand-new pieces in the form of essays, compilations of shorts, a still life series and even fiction — all circling around the anxieties of being alive in the world today and the way they reflect in what and how we eat. With pieces on chef culture, food diplomacy, paranoia about food safety, microwaves, internet urban legends and food crimes, the magazine’s graphic design takes cues from tabloid newspapers to fit the salaciousness and scandal-ridden character of its topics.

Issue 003 is famous for my dinner parties’ signature blend of cultural criticism and bold, vibrant imagery at its best.