Kinfolk vol.12 2014
Discovering New Things to cook, make and do
Discovering KINFOLK, a quarterly published
magazine from Portland, Oregon, at a lovely boutique called Kauniste in
Helsinki. My attention was drawn to a sleek but yet strong cover photography,
with only two models standing without their facial features toward to the
gazers.
Kinfolk is an independent slow lifestyle
magazine, created by Nathan Williams, his wife Katie
Searle-Williams and their close friends Doug and Paige Bischoff in July 2011. Each
issue is themed around a topic that is related to the season it is being
published in, with food, photography and lifestyle content geared towards that
theme. In Volume Twelve, 2014, the Saltwater Issue of Kinfolk explores one of
the oldest and most universal seasonings and its natural habitant: the sea. At
Part One, you can follow the recipe to cook stuffed salt and vinegar potato
skins, from Part Two, Dutch Photographer Scarlett Hooft Graafland’s photo essay
‘The Salt Flats of Bolivia’ makes me not just a skin deep visual impact; and
last part of Kinfolk, Few, a professional sandcastle architect Rusty Croft
offers some tips on how to craft the perfect castle by the shore.
I especially like Editor-in-Chief Nathan
Williams’ words from the welcome letter of Kinfolk: ‘We encourage you to
walk-or swim-away from this issue with the inclination to get outside and
reveal the tastes and feelings of summer’ (Williams, 5). Offset-printed and perfect bound, full color on uncoated paper, size 28.5
x26.5 (cm), Kinfolk creates a pleasure reading experiences by its strong team
and talented contributors, based on their knowledge on cooking, photography,
geography and literature, surely a smart choice to dive in, away from a sea of
over-commercialized women’s magazines, for a well-spent, sun-soaked summer.
http://www.scarletthooftgraafland.nl
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