Bread, Wine & Thou
ideas in writing, on food and drink culture…
What kind of brave, crazy food-hound and word-lover would launch a literary food magazine in this short-grab on-screen list-focused age? Yossi Klein has and thank goodness for that. Yossi is a writer, editor and Melbourne hospitality tragic who knows everyone, eats everything and can talk about it till the cows come home. We happened to share a bottle of Barolo last night…
The first edition of Bread, Wine & Thou came out in July 2015, launched at a who’s-who event with ribbon-cutting by Marco Pierre White (read my Marco story here). The magazine honours writing and carefully considered imagery. Few recipes. No lists. Definitely no #cleaneating. No pandering to short attention spans.
The second issue has just come out with the theme Maternal, and includes Yossi’s engrossing interview with Marco Pierre White – it’s a cracker.
As Yossi says, maternal is…
That dish that feels like a hug from your Mum, and the ones that make you feel like hugging her. Cooking and baking glimpsed from under the table, or from between a mother’s feet. A sneaking hand smacked aside, the long wait to lick the cake bowl clean. The chicken soup cure-alls, familiar fables, stories, memories and tales. Reminiscences, handed down cultures, hand me down recipes, secrets long held onto, skills, techniques and quirks, the squabbles and the makings up. The tastes, smells, memories and sense of home; the feelings we carry with us across time and geography… A celebration of the many threads that make up the rich tapestry which constitutes our notions of the Maternal.
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Win a copy of the mag by posting a comment below about the best thing you’ve read lately. I’ll definitely be plundering your answers for what-to-read-next ideas! Support independent publishing by buying the mag too: www.breadwinethou.com/shop
I’d been saving The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt as when an author only releases a book every ten years it needs to be savoured! I loved it- so engaged!
Claire Kelly the honey queen. Enjoy.
Meredith Sirett: I can’t say I have been reading anything too intellectual but I have been reading the back of a lot of Pinot Noir bottles.
I’ve been reading the Neapolitan Novels – I’ve read My Brilliant Friend and The Story of a New Name. Two more to go. Loving references to provolone and salami sandwiches in the 1960s. So far from vegemite and cheese but probably the equivalent.
Hi Meg, You are our winner this time! Yossi has also thrown in a double pass to Cinema Nova. Enjoy!
Currently reading the “Travelling Sprinkler” by Nicholson Baker. As Molly would say, “Do yourself a favour”. :)