Noble Rot #32

Noble Rot magazine is a cork-popping, gut-busting, genre-disrupting ode to gastronomic pleasure. Published every four months, columnists Marina O’Loughlin, Simon Hopkinson, John Niven and Dan Keeling are joined by interviewees such as Grayson and Philippa Perry, Brian Eno, Nigella Lawson, Madlib, Professor Brian Cox, John Cooper Clarke, Kiera Knightley, Irvine Welsh, Ed Balls, LCD Soundsystem, Yotam Ottolenghi, David Shrigley, Nigel Slater, Gilles Peterson, Mike D, Caitlin Moran, Fergus Henderson, Jay McInerney and Mark Ronson.

Noble Rot magazine is home to some of the most exciting voices in wine and food. including Diana Henry, William Kelley, Alice Feiring, April Bloomfield, Tomos Parry, Florence Knight, Jeremy Chan, Stephen Harris, Suzanne Moore, Honey & Co, Kermit Lynch, Fay Maschler, Simon J Woolf, Jon Bonne, Tim Hayward, Jancis Robinson, Hugh Johnson, Angela Hartnett, Merlin Labron-Johnson and Rowley Leigh.

Every issue is beautifully illustrated with artwork from the likes of John Broadley, Jose Mendez and Dennis Eriksson, and photography by Ben McMahon and Tom Cockram.

Issue 32 - Sacred Lunch

How can you not love a chef who says one of the reasons they gave up architecture was that they “didn’t like sitting in an office eating sandwiches and drinking coffee at a desk”? Talk about priorities. Because there’ll always be some Gaudí or other designing fabulous apartments, but nothing should stand in the way of a good lunch. Besides, it’s not as if Fergus Henderson – the chef in question, and also this issue’s special guest – hasn’t had a similarly outsized influence on food, restaurants and culture. Whether reintroducing ‘nose-to-tail eating’, influencing fashion, or training a generation of chefs who’ve since gone on to captain their own kitchens – thank goodness that al desko butties got the boot. On the cusp of his 60th birthday, Noble Rot profiles Henderson as you’ve never seen him before.