From the vaults

Back in the day, Eat was a magazine, an alternative food magazine based on the idea that there is more to food than restaurants and recipes. Loved by many, but bought by few, Eat lasted 16 issues before threatening to suck us all into its own black hole.

In the three years it ran (2000 – 2003), we featured the writing of some excellent journalists. Rather than keep it locked up in our archive, we thought we’d reproduce some of it here, so that the 99.9% of you who missed it the first time can enjoy it too.

  • Waste not…

    Waste not…

    Issue #3: Art

    Coen van der Kroon on the benefits of drinking your own pee.

  • Eating disorders – part 1

    Eating disorders – part 1

    Issue #4: Body

    Sarah Fraser looks at anorexia from a Western perspective.

  • Eating disorders – part 2

    Eating disorders – part 2

    Issue #4: Body

    Fumiko Ohno looks at views on anorexia from within Japan.

  • Hungary Hearts

    Hungary Hearts

    Issue #10: Pig

    Bob Cohen welcomes us lovingly into the ​Pork Capital of the Universe.

  • The belly of the beast

    The belly of the beast

    Issue #10: Pig

    Matthew Fort gives us his thoughts on ​pig’s guts.

  • Present tense

    Present tense

    Issue #11: Speed

    Mark Robinson interviews William Gibson.

  • Say Cheese

    Say Cheese

    Issue #12: Rotten

    Nigel Kendall on the science of farting.

  • Gourmet glace

    Gourmet glace

    Issue #16: Sweet

    Interviews on ice cream with Chef Heston Blumenthal, the chef-proprietor of the Fat Duck in Bray, England and Richard Lessner, Executive Director of the American Conservative Union.

  • Pie Power

    Pie Power

    Issue #16: Sweet

    John Alderman researches a history of pie ​warfare and looks at some significant players.