Serviette – Issue 08: Food is Vice

A Coffee Table Mags pick for those who think about where food comes from and what it reveals about everything else — Serviette is the most intellectually honest food magazine in print.

Serviette is a magazine about food, but not just about the food we eat.

It’s about the themes, ideas, conversations and connectivity around the cycle of our food; the language, culture and transformative possibilities of the future of our food; the journey it takes from seed to stomach, and all of the people who helped it along its way. Its mission is to create meaningful, purpose-driven content that drives a more interconnected, circular world of hospitality.

In Issue 08, we unleash food’s shady side, via honey that delivers a taste of madness, a joyless meal replacement turned BDSM staple, and a late-night hungry tour of Berlin’s best döner shops. Yes, we dive deep into the legacy of bacon-on-everything 2010s online food content and sip on cider made from stolen fruit, but we also explore vice’s darker manifestations. We meet Indigenous lobster fishermen whose rights are being infringed upon, staff working at ultra-luxe parties where excessive food waste is the norm, and prisoners who created a cookbook to grapple with systemic scarcity. That’s not all—there’s much more illicit goodness inside.