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Kinfolk Volume 2

This second volume of "Kinfolk" explores simple ways to spend time with friends during the fall and winter seasons. Morning walks, using natural candlelight, escaping with friends for a weekend retreat in the mountains or on the coast, or revisiting nostalgic traditions.

Over 30 well-known photographers have collaborated with stylists, filmmakers, chefs, bakers, and their own close friends to document these meals and activities as inspiration for others to experiment with new ways of entertaining. The honest, natural, uncontrived mood of the imagery targets individuals within the growing popularity of recreational cooking and domestic entertaining. Articles connect readers with the creative individuals behind restaurant meals, and encourage a simplified way of approaching their own entertaining at home.

The issue is a collaborative project that involved more than 60 artists who contributed essays, photographs, ideas, paintings and films. The issue offers practical ideas (such as Drinking Chocolate, A Picnic in the Forest, The Scent of Salted Air and Honey Harvest), reflective essays (such as The Season of Intentional Gatherings and Sunday Roast) and many beautiful photo essays (such as Tea for Two, Colors of Winter, Winter’s Rest and Entertaining Details). It also offers entertaining advice from experts such as Heidi Swanson and chefs Inaki Aizpitarte, Gregory Marchand and Hugo Desnoyer.

“This magazine is about more than cooking and eating. We are interested in why we cook and eat together, and in the people, relationships and social elements that keep us inviting company into our homes. We’re simplifying what seems to be an increasingly complicated and intimidating concept: entertaining. Even the word sounds stiff and formal, when it reality it’s quite simple, and we do it all the time. We don’t need a week’s notice, seating charts, name cards — we don’t even need a meal... This is a place to share ideas and inspiration for those simple get-togethers and moments. That is what we’re about.” —Editor Nathan Williams

Publication Design by Amanda Jane Jones

Cover Photograph by Jessica Peterson

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 144
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781616283896
  • Genres
  • food
  • Release date
  • 2012