Suss: another literary journal

Momofuku

by Suss

November 2009

The cook­book, not the iconic East Village restau­rant. David Chang and Peter Meehan have writ­ten an engag­ing, funny, inter­est­ing cook­book with a nar­ra­tive and a point of view; Gabriele Stabile’s pho­tog­ra­phy is breath­tak­ing and func­tional; the design­ers at Clarkson Potter have made it all look amaz­ing (the typog­ra­phy choices alone are worth a shout out). This is a rar­ity: a cook­book that is both prac­ti­cal (i.e., you can cook this food in your kitchen right now, foodie or not) and an object wor­thy of display.