Best Magazines for Serious Food Nerds

Nowhere are people more invested in the sources of their food than in SF—the more obscure, the better. Two new local magazines are here to fuel the fire: Meatpaper and Cocoaroma. Meatpaper aims to respond to what the editors term the “fleishgeist,” an increased interest in and curiosity about meat. Issue Zero featured a world map made of Spam as well as an article by Fulbright recipient John Caserta about the annual pig slaughter in a small Italian town. Cocoaroma takes a similarly in-depth approach but with chocolate as muse, including profiles of chocolatiers and stories about cacao-producing regions of the world.