Lucky Peach is apparently toast

Culture, Media, General Food Media and News
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terrible news. Lucky Peach will apparently fold its operations up in May.

this is awful. it’s the only food mag i subscribe to. Guess now I can donate to the SFWA so I’ll get Gravy.

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That is too bad. I liked the idea behind the magazine but the layout/design made it challenging for me to enjoy - I assumed it was designed for “the kids” but just couldn’t get past it. I wish it had hit its mark as articles/blurbs I read in other sources always seemed interesting.

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I didn’t like it. I got a subscription when it was first coming out. Then a few years later did it again. I found many of the articles stupid or boring. And many were written like trash. I actually have a few copies on the shelf that I didn’t bother reading. I’m not surprised it tanked.

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I am so bummed. It’s my favorite food magazine.

http://luckypeach.com/we-need-to-talk/?utm_source=WEEKLY+NEWSLETTER&utm_campaign=56f8a171d1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_81468d4b7f-56f8a171d1-99170081

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I’m right there with you, @TheLibrarian: it’s one heck of a publication. This is a real loss.

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More details:

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excerpt:

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That was until last week, when I thought I should take another look at the first five issues of the quarterly, which began publication in 2011 and shuttered in 2017, and figure out what influence it had on me and food media at large, as well as how I understand it in light of revelations of abuse and cruelty on the parts of its top two men: the chef David Chang, and writer and editor Peter Meehan. I can’t dismiss their impact easily, but in the intervening years, I’ve lost sight of what the effects of their perspective really were—the best thing about the Lucky Peach voice was maybe its brashness, its certitude, even when it wasn’t in service to the best ideas or people. That allowed good writers room. Where’s that voice now? I can see, going back, that without my consciously realizing it, these essays were showing me how to write about food, especially in often showing me who I didn’t want to be.

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I’ve not heard of the Lucky Peach but based on the negative comments that’s regrettable. :disappointed:

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I think I have every one of them!

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I loved the mag. They had problems with the handling subscriptions at beginning. I think i got 3 copies of issue 3. Not glossy food porn. Just informative writing and a lot of recipes for things I will never make.