Lucky Peach


March 17, 2017

The Umami Reader: The Death of Lucky Peach

by Sarah Han

– Some sad news for fans of Lucky Peach: The six-year-old food media company created by Peter Meehan and David Chang announced that it will soon close up shop. Lucky Peach will put out one final book (about eggs) in April, and the magazine will put out its last regular issue in May, and close out with a double […]

January 22, 2015

Furochan Eats: Ramen Is Not Dead. It’s Just Getting Started

by Florentyna Leow

Sometime last week, Dave Chang of Momofuku fame declared ramen dead (in the States). You can read his diatribe in its entirety over at Lucky Peach, but he makes several ludicrous claims there, including, “Access to instantaneous information from the Internet has killed innovation in ramen,” “Ramen was always a fringe pursuit in Japan” and, most […]