Ramen is the theme for the inaugural issue of Lucky Peach. AFP/Relaxnews picNEW YORK, April 17 New Yorks chef-darling David Chang and the producers of Anthony Bourdains irreverent travel and food show No Reservations have teamed up to create a quarterly food journal thats now available for pre-order.After months of whispers and rumours, Lucky Peach has materialised with promises of full-colour pages and a platform for unorthodox authors like Bourdain.The journal, described as a collection of travelogues, essays, art photography and rants will be edited by Peter Meehan, co-author for Changs cookbook Momofuku, Chang himself and Bourdains producers Zero Point Zero Production.Its now available for pre-order on literary journal site McSweeneys. Its also being developed as an iPad app and word is it will be out in May.Each issue will focus on a theme. The inaugural issue zeroes in on ramen as the centrepoint, around which the rest of the content will revolve.Bourdain discusses Changs career trajectory through films like Ramen Girl and Tampopo; food scientist Harold McGee explores alkaline noodles, MSG and the concept of molecular gastronomy; and a constellation of revered chefs lends the journal innovative new recipes.The first issue has already secured the contributions of Spanish chef Juan Mari Arzak, who this week was bestowed with the Lifetime Achievement Award for founding New Basque Cuisine by the S. Pellegrino Worlds 50 Best Restaurants, and Wylie Dufresne, chef of wd-50 in New York, known for its zealous use of science in the kitchen.Chang isnt the first to give writers and epicureans an elevated platform from which to wax poetic about food. New York-based publication Alimentum is five years old and purports to be the only literary review about food. Story topics in this winters issue includes why coffee and writing go together; shrimp obsessions; a corn muffin addiction; and murder by eggplant.The! journal can be ordered for US$28 (RM85). AFP/Relaxnews
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