dark kitchen

Final post in this Dark Kitchen online sister series running alongside our latest book, Jonny Randall draws connections between bodily and planetary health, exploring restorative practices not only for our individual bodies but the soil we all depend on.

Latest post in our Dark Kitchen series is an extract from 'Greyhound', a current work in progress by Joanna Pocock, as she travels through the land of industrial beef production in the Texas panhandle.

This month we are running a 'sister' series of Dark Kitchen posts, alongside our latest issue. To begin, Fred Warren tackles one of the most controversial aspects of the modern industrial food complex, ultra processed foods (UPFs). With compost artwork by Graeme Walker.

For our final 'taster' from the new issue, no 23: Antonia Bertucci explores the sacrificial implications of Christianity and breastfeeding, and misogynistic taboos about the female body. With sporescape image by Nick Jordan.

In our fourth taster from our new issue, Dark Kitchen:, novelist Gregory Norminton serves up a deliciously dark short story about an exclusive dining club that is soon to have a taste of its own medicine. Menu illustrated by Graeme Walker.

In our third Dark Kitchen post, poets Nickole Brown and Emily Hasler serve up disconcerting dishes from the realms of fairy tales and rural Kentucky. With artwork by Peter Cameron and Superflux.

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