Kinfolk, Volume 10

Kinfolk is a growing community of artists with a shared interest in small gatherings. We recognize that there is something about a table shared by friends, not just a wedding or once-a-year holiday extravaganza, that anchors our relationships and energizes us. We have come together to create Kinfolk as our collaborative way of advocating the natural approach to entertaining that we love.

Every element of Kinfolk —the features, photography, and general aesthetics—are consistent with the way we feel entertaining should be: simple, uncomplicated, and less contrived. Kinfolk is the marriage of our appreciation for art and design and our love for spending time with family and friends.

In this issue:
For our Winter issue, Kinfolk Issue 10, we will be exploring the process of aging and the way certain things improve over time. We plan to investigate the aging process of foods (fermenting, cheese, whiskey, pickled snacks), humans and animals (essays, advice and photo essays showing lives well spent), ideas, language and items. We plan to put ancient things lovingly under the microscope (tree bark, heirlooms, traditions, rituals, practices and terms), and celebrate things that society seems to have done away with (film cameras, love letters, men in hats, dancing). The issue will delve into traits, menus, tchotchkes that have been learned, taught, emulated, borrowed, inherited or passed down. We will meet some elder folks: parents, grandparents, friends, mentors, ancestors, home cooks and other creative dynamos past age 70. In a graceful and respectful fashion, we will look back while looking forward—using a modern Kinfolk take to show how to feel young, how to get old and how to make the most of now. While we changed our subtitle from “A Guide for Small Gatherings” to “Discovering New Things to Cook, Make and Do,” we will continue to come up with ideas related to small gatherings, laid-back entertaining and making food for your favorite people.