Food is Design

In Issue 06, we turn our attention to food’s design: the engineered building blocks of what we eat, the tools (both human and animal-made) used for consuming it, and the tailor-made structures that shelter one-of-a-kind meals. We bid farewell to an unforgettable, polarizing candy. We get a tasteful tour of Mexico City restaurants with writer and curator Su Wu. We squeeze identity politics through the piping bags of next-generation cakes. And we meet both a hostess who likes to bring a bit of jiggle to the dinner party table, and a mushroom-picking robot with the gentlest grip. That’s not all—there’s much more inside.