The Runcible Spoon
In case you didn’t know, I started a DC-based food zine, The Runcible Spoon. Instead of starting another blog, I thought — why not bring food back to the streets? Why not use an old medium — a zine (the 90s version of the blog) — to promote local blogs and foodies instead of Twitter and Facebook?
“The Runcible Spoon” is a reference to a line in my favorite childhood poem, “The Owl and the Pussycat.” And don’t worry if you don’t know what “runcible” means — it’s a nonsensical word that poet Edward Lear made up.
And that’s the exact feeling that I want the zine to evoke — a fantasyland of food and and craziness packed into eight hand-written, cut-and-pasted pages.
In this issue, we cover proper dinner reservations-making etiquette, teach you how to make Filipino adobo on the slow cooker and give you ideas on how to use radishes from the farmers market.
Special thanks to bloggers from Pie v. Cake, Breakfasts.tumblr, Johnna Knows Good Food, Mango & Tomato and Dolcezza Gelato for bringing their good names (and great recipes) to the zine.
I’ll be distributing it this weekend in the following neighborhoods: Adams Morgan, Eastern Market, U Street, 14th and P, Chinatown and Dupont Circle. Please let me know if you want to help out — I’ll certainly need it!
Here’s a PDF copy of the zine below. ENJOY!
8 Comments
February 27, 2010 at 7:45 pm
Love the look! Great job!
February 28, 2010 at 6:59 am
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March 2, 2010 at 5:28 am
Hey, thanks for the zine! It is making me hungry!
I haven’t tried any of the recipes yet but I will. Perhaps I’ll start with the mustard one.
Anyway, I’ve started doing a weekly roundup of zines that were posted online to download and on lasts week I’ve put a link to your zine. I hope you don’t mind.
Please let me know if you make a new issue or other zine so I can check it out.
March 2, 2010 at 1:47 pm
Thanks! I’m glad you like it! I actually did a google search of the Runcible Spoon and found your link — thanks so much for promoting it. I didn’t realize there were still so many zines out there (you know, now that it’s not the 90s and people have switched to blogs, haha), so I’m glad that someone’s keeping an eye out for what’s going on with publications from the street level.
I will definitely let you know if I make another zine — we’re due to have a summer issue in April-ish.
March 6, 2010 at 1:10 am
I love, love, love it!
March 8, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Malaka, you are a seriously cool chick. I love the zine! I want to be just like you when I grow up.
March 18, 2010 at 5:43 am
we would love to put your zine in our shops. i am sure jason can run some over. let us know!
March 18, 2010 at 1:14 pm
YES! I’d love that. I’ll give Jason a bundle to bring on over. Thank you!