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Alimentum

The Literature of Food

P.O. Box 776

New York, NY 10163

(For inquiries. See website for order and submission address.)

E-mail: info@alimentumjournal.com

Founded: 2005 Issues per year: 2 Distributors: Ingram, Ubiquity, OneSource Copy price: $10 Average pages: 128 Sample price (postpaid): $10 Subscription (individuals): $18/yr Subscription (institutions) $18/yr Canada/Foreign $30/yr

Publisher’s description: Alimentum - The Literature of Food is the only literary review that focuses on the subject of food. Fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. We serve food in its finest form; sating a loftier appetite: juicy paragraphs, tasty stanzas, mouth-watering stories, surprisingly succulent essays. Our writers and poets capture food’s elusive character (it’s not just about what’s on your plate).

Our contributors have included Mark Kurlansky, Oliver Sacks, Joanna Torrey, Ann Hood, Tim Stark, Carly Sachs, Dick Allen, and Donald Newlove. In addition to our biannual print journal, we have a bite-sized online journal (with podcasts) that changes throughout the year

Alimentum won Best in Category for Design at the 2008 New York Book Show Awards.

“Alimentum, a new journal about food, is small enough to carry with you for mental and aesthetic nourishment breaks.” — Florence Fabricant, The New York Times

“The pieces provide wonderfully thought-provoking snacking, best taken a nibble at a time to prolong the pleasure.” — Robin Maher Jenkins, Chicago Tribune

Recent Issues:
Summer 2008 Issue Six
Our first color illustrated story, The Flying Omelet, by Marguerite Dorian; interview with writer and food Web site guru David Leite; poems by Anna Maria Shua translated by Steven J. Stewart; an udon maker romance by Elaine Chiew; Pintip Hompluem Dunn's Thai tale of food and marriage; Linda Lappin's moonlit night with pane & pecorino; and F.J. Bergmann visits the Bistro at the End of the Unified Field Theory.

Summer 2007 Issue Four
Featuring: the art of eating alone; a journey through time with an onion; the diner of forgotten foods; what your waiter is really thinking; a special section on BANANAS; recipepoems, menupoems, philosophical pies, and much more... 32 writers & poets including Evan Morgan Williams, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Janet Burroway, Dick Allen, and an interview with novelist and memoirist Diana Abu-Jaber.