The Kitchen Table Quarterly: Your Guide to Seasonal Cooking & Engagement

The Kitchen Table Quarterly brings home the warmth of shared meals through thoughtful recipes, practical kitchen insights, and stories that connect families around the table—every season.

More than a recipe guide, The Kitchen Table Quarterly offers seasonal cooking inspiration, step-by-step kitchen techniques, and curated lifestyle content that elevates everyday dining. Each issue blends tradition with modern creativity, helping home cooks plan meals, manage time, and build lasting traditions around the kitchen table.

From spring garden harvests to winter comfort dishes, The Kitchen Table Quarterly delivers timely recipes with ingredient guides and cooking hacks. Whether you're preparing a weeknight meal or planning a holiday feast, the content supports simplicity without sacrificing flavor—ensuring every cook, beginner or expert, finds joy in the process.

The quarterly emphasizes the emotional value of shared meals, featuring real stories from readers about cooking together, family traditions, and meaningful conversations sparked at the table. These narratives inspire readers to prioritize time spent together, turning routine dinners into cherished moments that nourish both body and soul.

The Kitchen Table Quarterly isn’t just about food—it’s about connection, creativity, and the simple joy of gathering. Dive in today to discover seasonal inspiration that transforms your kitchen into a hub of warmth and togetherness. Start planning your next table moment—because every meal tells a story.

Art and Letters by: Dana Belott Mara Hagen Kevin Bodniza Lucien R. Starchild bad futa Marisa Catalina Casey Molly Rose Strugatz Katie Beswick Elzbieta Zdunek Bryan D. Price Sean McQuinney Victor Hugo Mendevil Sjafril Riz Jeff Schwartz Brenden Layte Robb Kunz Laura Sackton.

Kitchen Table Quarterly amplifies work that lays history bare- cultural, political, geographical, medical, personal- and explores how the ways in which these histories weave together to create the way we live. We know that each of us is an amalgamation of all the things that came before. We are made of our elementary schools, our diagnoses, our religions, our former lovers, the injustices.

Kitchen Table Quarterly is a journal preoccupied with history- true history. Each of us holds the histories of what came before: mothers, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, and on and on and on. We are made of our hometowns, our elementary schools, our diagnoses, our religions, our former loves.

Kitchen Table Quarterly amplifies work that lays our histories bare- cultural history, political history, geographical, personal. Kitchen Table Quarterly amplifies work that lays history bare-cultural, political, medical, sexual, etc.-and explores the ways in which they interact to form who people are. The editors are looking for work that spills secrets and wipes the dust off of old memories.

Here, they contend with history's complexity and its shortcomings. Kitchen Table Quarterly - Nonfiction (Poetry) Description Note: remove identifying information from manuscript for anonymous judging. Note: reprints are only allowed if it was posted on personal blog or social media or if the previous publication is defunct Note: one submission per reading period.

Kitchen Table Quarterly GENRE Poetry, Creative Nonfiction SUBGENRE Creative Nonfiction, Poetry READING PERIOD. Kitchen Table Quarterly amplifies work that lays all of this history bare- cultural history, political history, geographical, medical, romantic, etc. Kitchen Table Quarterly will immediately reject any work which promotes bigotry, malice, and/or discrimination based on race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, disability, etc.

Kitchen Table Quarterly is a journal preoccupied with history- true history. In 1986, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev adopted a policy of glasnost and perestroika. For decades, history behind the Iron Curtain was burned or shredded or hidden in classified files.

Whole generations grew up without knowing the stories of how they'd come to call a particular place "home," or how.