Eat@20
Eat@20
Eat is 20 this year. We've done a lot in that time and worked with some amazing people. To celebrate surviving this long, and to sign-off a very strange year, we decided to dig back into the archives and share a collection of images from Eat magazine – yes, we used to publish a food magazine and you can read more about it here. So, thank you to everyone who has been part of the journey and helped us along the way. Enjoy!

Where it all started: Eat Issue 00 – Emiko and the crash test dummy, shot by Kazuyoshi Shimomura.
We took our 'dummy issue' round to potential advertisers to get them excited about a 'new type of food magazine' – what must they have thought?
We took our 'dummy issue' round to potential advertisers to get them excited about a 'new type of food magazine' – what must they have thought?

Eat Issue 00: Outtake.
Thanks to Emiko, Kazuyoshi, Peter and AVGVST for all your help and support.
Thanks to Emiko, Kazuyoshi, Peter and AVGVST for all your help and support.

Eat Issue 00: Chilli Tortilla
A lot more difficult to build than you might think.
Thanks to master chef Betty Kruemmer and photographer Satomi Ono.
A lot more difficult to build than you might think.
Thanks to master chef Betty Kruemmer and photographer Satomi Ono.

Eat Issue 01: Sayoko Yamaguchi
“I like water best. I like to drink things without flavour.”
Supermodel Sayoko Yamaguchi. Interviewed for Eat by Noriko Morishta, photographed by Kazuyoshi Shimomura.
“I like water best. I like to drink things without flavour.”
Supermodel Sayoko Yamaguchi. Interviewed for Eat by Noriko Morishta, photographed by Kazuyoshi Shimomura.

Eat Issue 01: Priests in Rome
“Denied the pleasures of the flesh, their love of food is no sin.”
Documenting the eating habits of priests and nuns on the streets of Rome for our temptation issue. Story: Carlotta Mismetti Capua,
Photography: Ugo Lafulla.
“Denied the pleasures of the flesh, their love of food is no sin.”
Documenting the eating habits of priests and nuns on the streets of Rome for our temptation issue. Story: Carlotta Mismetti Capua,
Photography: Ugo Lafulla.

Eat Issue 01: Pomegranate
“The purple butterflies fluttered about with gold dust on their wings, visiting each flower in turn; the little lizards crept out of the crevices of the wall, and lay basking in the white glare; and the pomegranates split and cracked with the heat, and showed their bleeding red hearts.” Oscar Wilde, The Birthday of the Infanta.
Photography: Satomi Ono.
“The purple butterflies fluttered about with gold dust on their wings, visiting each flower in turn; the little lizards crept out of the crevices of the wall, and lay basking in the white glare; and the pomegranates split and cracked with the heat, and showed their bleeding red hearts.” Oscar Wilde, The Birthday of the Infanta.
Photography: Satomi Ono.

Eat Issue 01: Ice cream
Cherry Blossom ice cream being made in the traditional way, in a wooden tub packed with ice and salt.
Photography: Satomi Ono.
Cherry Blossom ice cream being made in the traditional way, in a wooden tub packed with ice and salt.
Photography: Satomi Ono.

Eat Issue 02: Street
Thank you to Cirque du Soleil for posing for us and to Kazuyoshi Shimomura for the shot. The fastest shoot we’ve ever done - I believe we had ten minutes!
Thank you to Cirque du Soleil for posing for us and to Kazuyoshi Shimomura for the shot. The fastest shoot we’ve ever done - I believe we had ten minutes!

Eat Issue 01: Crab pie
Crab in salt crust.
Photography: Takeharu Hioki.
Crab in salt crust.
Photography: Takeharu Hioki.

Eat Issue 02: Taco-yaki
Photography: Satomi Ono.
Photography: Satomi Ono.

Eat Issue 06: The lure of the Shishamo.
“Even though there is no distinct flavour to the eggs, their texture and sublime sensation in the mouth makes it easy to become addicted.”
Story: Tazlu Endo.
Photography: Satomi Ono.
“Even though there is no distinct flavour to the eggs, their texture and sublime sensation in the mouth makes it easy to become addicted.”
Story: Tazlu Endo.
Photography: Satomi Ono.

Eat Issue 03: Pierre Hermé: Papillote Praliné
Meringue and nut mixture with hazelnut cream, covered and decorated with thin milk chocolate.
Photography: Takeharu Hioki.
Meringue and nut mixture with hazelnut cream, covered and decorated with thin milk chocolate.
Photography: Takeharu Hioki.

Eat Issue 03: Pierre Hermé: Ispahan
A macaroon sandwich containing whole lychee, raspberries and rose cream, garnished with a raspberry, a rose petal and syrup of rose jam.
Photography: Takeharu Hioki.
A macaroon sandwich containing whole lychee, raspberries and rose cream, garnished with a raspberry, a rose petal and syrup of rose jam.
Photography: Takeharu Hioki.

Eat Issue 03: Fake plastic food – a Japanese tradition. Does it ever go off? Yes, but it takes about two years.
Photography: Satomi Ono; Story: Tazlu Endo.
Photography: Satomi Ono; Story: Tazlu Endo.

Eat Issue 03: Drying squid in Shodoshima.
Photography: Tsukasa Furusato.
Photography: Tsukasa Furusato.

Eat Issue 04: A very young Ai Tominaga eats guacomole for our Body issue.
Photography: Takahiro Yamanaka.
Photography: Takahiro Yamanaka.

Eat Issue 04: Eating disorders distroy lives and yet are rarely talked about. It's as important today as it was when we reported on it almost two decades ago.
Photography: Ayumi Moriyama.
Photography: Ayumi Moriyama.

Eat Issue 04: The London restaurant Archipelago features a menu featuring Locusts, scorpions, peacock meat and honey with baby bees – all very healthy apparantly.
Photography: Alex Macdonald.www.archipelago-restaurant.co.uk/
Photography: Alex Macdonald.www.archipelago-restaurant.co.uk/

Eat Issue 04: Tetsuya Wakuda photographed at his eponymous restaurant in Sydney.
Photography: Louise Lister.
Photography: Louise Lister.

Eat Issue 05: Italy
"Come on in, the waiter's lovely."
Photography: Adam Eastland.
"Come on in, the waiter's lovely."
Photography: Adam Eastland.

Eat Issue 05: "There are reportedly more than 2,000 different kinds of pasta, with some 350 of these manufactured commercially."
Story: Michelle Dominique Lizieri.
Photography: Ayumi Moriyama.
Story: Michelle Dominique Lizieri.
Photography: Ayumi Moriyama.

Eat Issue 05: "Most have a diminutive and superlative form making the pronunciation of the names a matter of whimsical delight."
Story: Michelle Dominique Lizieri.
Photography: Ayumi Moriyama.
Story: Michelle Dominique Lizieri.
Photography: Ayumi Moriyama.

Eat Issue 05: "In a land where 36% of adulterous men attribute their extramaritial infatuations to a mistress' superior cooking abilities, pasta is, quite literally, the food of love."
Story: Michelle Dominique Lizieri.
Photography: Ayumi Moriyama.
Story: Michelle Dominique Lizieri.
Photography: Ayumi Moriyama.

Eat Issue 05: Somewhere in Naples... Eat 04 gets a nod of approval.
Photography: Adam Eastland.
Photography: Adam Eastland.

Eat Issue 01: Merry Christmas!
The Christmas Pudding – another British culliunary tradition that has failed to get international acclaim... give it time!
Photography: Takeharu Hioki.
The Christmas Pudding – another British culliunary tradition that has failed to get international acclaim... give it time!
Photography: Takeharu Hioki.

Eat Issue 05: Italian gelato.
Photography: Kazuyoshi Shimomura (AVGVST).
Photography: Kazuyoshi Shimomura (AVGVST).

Eat Issue 06: Honey hands.
Photography: Satomi Ono.
Photography: Satomi Ono.

Eat Issue 06: Bakalava
Photography: Satomi Ono.
Photography: Satomi Ono.

Eat Issue 01: Roast Turkey
Photography: Takeharu Hioki.
Photography: Takeharu Hioki.

Eat Issue 15: It's not an urban myth.
Happy Year of the Ox.
Photography: Tsukasa Furusato.
Happy Year of the Ox.
Photography: Tsukasa Furusato.

Eat Issue 01: And an Happy New Year from all of us at Eat. Hoping that the new year will be a little less turbulant than the last.
Photography: Takeharu Hioki.
Photography: Takeharu Hioki.