Serviette #7 2025 - Food is Ritual

In Issue 07, we pull back the curtain on food’s traditions, rites, and rituals, from imitating a holy communion wafer to spilling the proverbial tea at post-dinner gossip sessions, and the literal run on Japanese matcha making supplies scarce. We get our future predicted by the world’s only cheese fortune teller, and take a golden hour tour of Marseille to enjoy apéro like seasoned food journalist Ezéchiel Zérah. We meet Venezuelan women taking to the sea to feed their families, Olympic Winter Game hopefuls chockfull of singular food habits, and the Indian coffee farmers who practice time-honoured rituals amid climate crisis upheaval. That’s not all though, there’s plenty more to venerate inside.