Lucky Peach Cookbook

My last trip to DC was a big one, to put it lightly. I had the enormous pleasure of visiting Momofuku’s CC/DC location after at least one failed attempt. The article may not be up yet, but our October cookbook of the month will let you know it’s coming: we’re tackling the Lucky Peach cookbook, put together by Peter Meehan. Though Lucky Peach the magazine went out of print in late 2017, their cookbook contains the recipes that helped make the magazine what it is. I picked it up before leaving Momofuku, and I have puzzled over it for a few days now.

I’m a woman who makes fried rice to clean out her fridge. I like Asian recipes, but I’m not well versed in them. For this reason, I found Lucky Peach promising when I finally cracked the spine and started looking into it’s pages. There is more to the world that fish sauce and soy sauce. I need to take the leap and explore the rest.


For some background, Lucky Peach magazine began in 2011 as a coordinated effort between David Chang, Peter Meehan, and Anthony Bourdain. The first issue goes for almost one hundred dollars on amazon as of writing this article. It was a blip on the culinary radar of something new, something I never quite got to experience. I was a young padawan, unaware of what I wanted. Looking at the cookbook itself, I regret never getting a few issues.


David Chang is well known for his Asian influenced menus at Momofuku and now Majordomo, and you can see some of that influence in this cookbook for sure. I don’t think I’d ever expect to see some of these recipes coming out of Momofuku. For the most part, they appear easy to make. The only difficulty at first glance is the ingredient gathering. I went out not too long ago thinking I’d make Red Roast pork only to find my local grocery store didn’t have hoisin of all things.


I’m still not sure what I want to make, but I think I may have to utilize amazon ahead of time to make sure I have gochugang. The Korean chili paste is widely used in the pages of Lucky Peach. I kind of needed to expand my pantry a bit anyway. Needless to say, I will be cooking a lot this month.


November is NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, and I have been a loyal participant for years, successful for two. I will be cooking out of Lucky Peach and Momofuku simultaneously, so anything you see come out in November will have been prepared this month. Wish me luck, as the next few months are a roller coaster of writing.



I’m a woman who makes fried rice to clean out her fridge. I like Asian recipes, but I’m not well versed in them. For this reason, I found Lucky Peach promising when I finally cracked the spine and started looking into it’s pages. There is more to the world that fish sauce and soy sauce. I need to take the leap and explore the rest.

For some background, Lucky Peach magazine began in 2011 as a coordinated effort between David Chang, Peter Meehan, and Anthony Bourdain. The first issue goes for almost one hundred dollars on amazon as of writing this article. It was a blip on the culinary radar of something new, something I never quite got to experience. I was a young padawan, unaware of what I wanted. Looking at the cookbook itself, I regret never getting a few issues.

David Chang is well known for his Asian influenced menus at Momofuku and now Majordomo, and you can see some of that influence in this cookbook for sure. I don’t think I’d ever expect to see some of these recipes coming out of Momofuku. For the most part, they appear easy to make. The only difficulty at first glance is the ingredient gathering. I went out not too long ago thinking I’d make Red Roast pork only to find my local grocery store didn’t have hoisin of all things.

I’m still not sure what I want to make, but I think I may have to utilize amazon ahead of time to make sure I have gochugang. The Korean chili paste is widely used in the pages of Lucky Peach. I kind of needed to expand my pantry a bit anyway. Needless to say, I will be cooking a lot this month.

November is NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, and I have been a loyal participant for years, successful for two. I will be cooking out of Lucky Peach and Momofuku simultaneously, so anything you see come out in November will have been prepared this month. Wish me luck, as the next few months are a roller coaster of writing.