Lucky Peach Magazine Issues 1-24/25

[Various], USA 2011-: Lucky Peach, 2017. Second-hand softcover.

Chang, David & Meehan, Peter & Ying, Chris (ed). Lucky Peach Magazine: Issues 1-24/25 [FIRST EDITIONS - a complete run]. Lucky Peach: [various], USA 2011-2017. 4to (265x210mm) SC 24 issues various conditions, VG- to Near Fine

CHANG, David & MEEHAN, Peter & YING, Chris (ed).

Lucky Peach: a quarterly journal of food and writing [issues 1-24/25, a complete run]
Issues 1-9: San Francisco : McSweeney's, 2011-2012.  Issues 10-24/25: Lucky Peach : New York, 2014-2017.

Quarto (265x210mm) illustrated stiff card wrappers, 96-208pp per issue, usually 144-176pp, inserts as published laid in, various distribution formats, all first editions. Most copies, some faint to light shelfwear, generally very good or better, blemishes noted below per issue

Founded by chef David Chang, the chef/patron of the eponymous ground-breaking New York restaurant Momofuku (translates as "lucky peach") with editors Peter Meehan and Chris Ying and supported by Anthony Bourdain's media company, Zero Point Zero Productions, and McSweeney's, Lucky Peach was an extraordinarily influential gastronomic journal, that even today defies easy categorisation.

Publishing iconic, ephemeral, eclectic, gonzo-esque, challenging, irreverent, authoritative culinary writing, (or as the editors said on occasion, "what ever we wanted") Lucky Peach was the 'it' magazine for chefs, food creatives, hospitality and gourmands world wide for just over six years.  No subject was taboo.  Each issue was complimented by edgy and challenging design, illustration and photography.   In some ways, Lucky Peach is best described as 'the illegitimate child' of its founders; made in their own ever changing, creative image.

Contributors included Harold McGee, Ivan Orkin, Juan Mari Arzak, Anthony Bourdain, Ferran Adria, Naomi Duguid, Mario Batali, Alison Roman, Danny Bowien, Fuchsia Dunlop, Rachel Khong, Michael Pollan, Massimo Bottura, Magnus Nilsson, Anissa Helou, Andy Ricker, Alice Waters, Jonathan Gold, Michael Twitty, Gabrielle Hamilton, Dorie Greenspan, Chad Robertson, René Redzepi, Christina Tosi, Andrea Nguyen, Jim Meehan and many more.

The complete run comprises:

Issue 1:  The Ramen Issue - Summer 2011;  spine lightly sunned

Issue 2:  The Sweet Spot - Fall/Winter 2011; corner gently bumped

Issue 3:  The Cooks and Chefs Issue - Spring 2012; bottom edge faintly buckled

Issue 4: The American Food Issue - Summer 2012; lightly buckled

Issue 5:  The Chinatown Issue - Fall 2012

Issue 6:  Before and After the Apocalypse -Winter 2012

Issue 7:  The Travel Issue - Spring 2013; corner lightly buckled, rear wrapper lightly soiled
Issue 8:  The Gender Issue - Summer 2012; lightly buckled, rear wrapper lightly soiled

Issue 9:  The Cooks and Chefs Issue #2 - Fall 2013; sealed section, closed tear

Issue 10:  The Street Food Issue - Winter 2014

Issue 11:  All You Can Eat - Spring 2014

Issue 12:  The Seashore - Summer 2014

Issue 13:  The Holiday Issue - Winter 2014
Issue 14:  Obsession - Spring 2015

Issue 15:  The Plant Kingdom - Summer 2015

Issue 16:  The Fantasy Issue - Fall 2015

Issue 17:  The Breakfast Issue - Winter 2015

Issue 18:  The Versus Issue - Spring 2016

Issue 19:  The Pho Issue - Summer 2016

Issue 20:  The Cooks and Chefs Issue #3 - Fall 2016

Issue 21:  Los Angeles - Winter 2016

Issue 22:  Chicken - Spring 2017

Issue 23:  The Suburbs Issue - Summer 2017

Issue 24/25:  The Best Of Issue - Winter 2017



A highly significant popular culture culinary journal that ended as abruptly as it started.   A very good set.  The first five volumes are particularly scarce and sets uncommon.

§  OCLC records approximately 15 holdings, mostly in the US; COPAC records no holdings