STOCK JOURNAL IS OUT NOW
Issue One:
THE NEXT GENERATION
The mission of STOCK is to encounter, exchange, and transform the conversations we have about food in Chicago and the broader Midwest.
In this issue, we’re celebrating the next generation, such as beloved farms and restaurants passed down within a family, or the kids who broke off to do their own thing. In the abstract sense, we’re also learning about older concepts refreshed by new energy: enduring home cookery methods take on new life, while today’s pop-ups prioritize mutual aid and shake the dust off the clubby underground dinners of yore.
Please consider this volume to be an open letter. We are asking you to participate, interrogate, and interact with this work. Chicago has a great tradition of mainstream and independent media, but as we grow, we hope to supplement these established and platformed voices with work from new and emerging writers, artists, farmers, manufacturers, vendors, and other essential contributors to our regional food culture.
STOCK is not a proclamation of what is important, commendable, or noteworthy—it’s an invitation to the community to weigh in on the subject.
We look forward to growing this project together and hope you will join the STOCK supper series, engage with us on social media (@stockjournal_ on Instagram), and send us feedback and pitches at erin@erindrain.com and edmarlumpen@gmail.com.
Thank you,
Erin Drain, cofounder and managing editor
Ed Marszewski, cofounder and publisher
Stock Supper CLub #1 is June 12 with Chef Lance Watson. - Buy Tickets now SOLD OUT
Stock Supper Club #2 is June 26th with Aloha Eats - Buy Tickets NOW.
HAVE SUPPER WITH US
Join the conversation by participating in our Supper Club Series, featuring affordable meals in a community-building environment. The Supper Club Series is pop-up dinner featuring rotating chefs, cooks, restaurants, and other organizations. Hosted 2 Mondays per month from 5-8pm.
About
STOCK
Chicago was built on and for food; forever a site of contact for innumerable cultures and a hub for the exchange of ideas and provisions.
Transformation-of food and ideas—is the calling card of the region. Glacial plains
of wild leeks became home to Kitihawa and Jean Baptiste Point duSable’s trading post.
The stockyards here received, transfigured, and fed the world. The spirit of the original Maxwell Street Market lives on in the mutual aid and pop-ups of today.
Chicago has sustained itself over centuries and contains a million more stories yet worth telling. STOCK is dedicated to those stories.
STOCK Journal is Published by the Non Profit, Public Media Institute, a component of the Buddy System. The Buddy System is an ecosystem of businesses, non-profits, publications, products and people working towards a community-driven future. Visit the-buddy-system.com for more info.
