Hello! Nice to meet you!

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We're Potluck, a print and digital zine all about cooking, eating and sharing food. 

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We want to create a place that allows everyone to tell their own personal stories about food, and share in the joys that come along with it. We want this to be a place to document the family recipes, obsess over personal fascinations, and share the little memories you associate with your favourite meals. We want to provide a different kind of way to read about food, one that’s people-focused, diverse and with room to grow.

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Potluck is created and edited by Rhia Cook, a passionate home cook and textile design graduate with no experience in hospitality or running a magazine. The first issue was started in May of 2020 on a whim. After going into lockdown at the end of March and spending pretty much every moment since that point reading, thinking about or making food, she got up one morning and put a call out for submissions for a zine about food. She wanted it to celebrate the act of preparing food, of sitting down together and sharing it and the way it brings people together. She asked for any work that could be printed on an A5 page to be sent over on the theme of “Cooking During Covid”. 

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That first issue got a response we certainly didn’t expect. It went from a seed of an idea to a publication with over 20 contributors from all across the UK and Ireland. We sold the first issue to raise money for The Trussell Trust, the charity that supports the majority of the UK’s food banks and raised £546 for them in the end. 

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Since then we've created another four issues, with a fifth on the way, working with 40 contributors from all over the world each issue. We've raised over £1500 for the Trussell Trust so far.

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