Lucky Peach Issue 12: The Seashore Issue (with insert) Bartending when Rukmini and her parents

when Rukmini and her parents took a trip through India on the Coromandel Express―from her mother’s native Kolkata to her father’s native Chennai―Iyer was inspired to recreate the cuisine of their travels for the harried home cook

he also strove to improve the status and surroundings of the ordinary working cook

Publisher Orange Judd printed books useful to the mid- to late-19th c

we think of it as colorful neutral

with drawings by Barry Zaid

Lucky Peach Issue 12: The Seashore Issue (with insert) Bartending when Rukmini and her parentsIncludes rare insert "Beach Reads." Lucky Peach #12 is all about food from littoral realms the spaces where land meets sea. We dive for abalone and gather seaweed off the California coast; we harvest honey in the Bangladeshi Sundarabans; we go behind the scenes at a shrimp farm in Indonesia, and spend a Sunday at the cockle sheds in Leigh on Sea. We learn lots about edible sea beasts, from clams to hagfish to sea squirts. Anthony Bourdain takes us on