Drum roll please…. for Illustoria’s #9: The Food Issue! This first issue under our new publisher McSweeney’s is bursting with culinary delight, and is sure to satisfy any tummy rumbling for creativity. Feast your eyes on a delicious, impossibly groovy cover by illustrator Mar Hernández, in her signature bold and vibrant style.

Get inspired by food youth activists Rachel Parent (founder of non-profit Kids Right to Know), Ziyon Williams (volunteer at urban farm Acta Non Verba), and Mikaela Ulmer (founder of lemonade company Me&theBees) who share their stories of entrepreneurship in brilliant interviews.

Obsess over obscure facts about famous writers & their snacking habits in our ongoing series, Literary Giants, by Elizabeth Haidle.

Check out finger licking DIYs and recipes, with instructions for making broiled grapefruit, interviews with famous chefs, pancakes for your dogs, and paint brushes foraged from the wild!