Have a good long weekend, y’all.

This is the cover of LUCKY PEACH 7: The Travel Issue.

It is on its way to your mailbox, your local bookstore, the Whole Foods, the prison library, wherever it is that you and the Peach usually meet up. (You can also buy it directly from us here.)

What is inside? SO MANY WORDS! Maybe our MOST WORDS EVER. Smart words about snake eating from Philip Gourevitch!  Handwritten words about The Most Beautiful Taco Bell in the World from artist Jason Polan. A sidebar about the relationship of smuggled sausage and Jonathan Gold’s dirty laundry. Fiction from Jack Pendarvis, one of the geniuses who writes for Adventure Time, which may or may not be the only thing Anthony Bourdain watches on television any more. There are pictures and drawings, too!

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p.s. The cover was created by Christopher Boffoli/art directed by Walter Green. If you like the idea of big food and tiny people, you will find Christopher’s work & website DELIGHTFUL.

Enemy of the Bland, Champion of the Tasty

Robert Sietsema will ride again.

Wasn’t it a Funkadelic record that asked the question “Mommy, where does a Compost Cookie come from?”

No?

Well, regardless, we got the answer here for you, in video form. Featuring Ms. Tosi, maker of said cookie, and my daughter, who insists she’s the star.

We’ll post the recipe here tomorrow, though you can also find it on page 114 of the Milk Bar cookbook, or in various corners of the internet, like right here at the L.A. Times.

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This is the last video in a series that was underwritten by American Express:  Christina is part of a program where they celebrate Cardmembers and their sources of inspiration. Check the rest out here. 

Eleanor Davis has the distinction (or something) of being the only Lucky Peach illustrator that’s gotten to decide which sketches should be turned into finals for the magazine.

After she sent in a bunch of equally exciting sketches to accompany poems by Bei Dao in issue 5, I narrowed down my a couple favorites and asked her to just go with the ones that she’d feel most excited about doing. This might speak to my incompetence, but MOST LIKELY it speaks to Eleanor’s talent + smartz. 

Above, you can see some of the sketches she turned in, alongside the finals. You can see more of her work here, and AS NOTED IN THE PREVIOUS BLOG ABOUT HER WORK, you can buy some of the originals she made for us here. -Walter Green

A watercolor that artist Eleanor Davis made to accompany a Bei Dao poem that ran in Lucky Peach #5: Chinatown. One of two paintings from that series that she has for sale (with a bunch of other cool work) right here.

The last in our lil’ series of award-nominated stuff from LP: The Secret Lives of Chefs by Lisa Hanawalt! This comic also appears in her upcoming book MY DIRTY DUMB EYES, published by Drawn & Quarterly.

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Sir Eduardo Paolozzi

If you’ve never checked out Picture Box, do. Great art publisher with an edifying tumblr. I’ll justify reposting this here ‘cause of the wieners. But mainly doing it because it’s awesome.

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