About Us

Meal Magazine is an independent print publication featuring thought-provoking food writing and striking art direction. Based in Minneapolis and published bi-annually, Meal Magazine is produced by a team of experienced writers, critics, and artists who are passionate about the power of food and drink to bring people together. Order Issues 1 and 2 here, or subscribe to our Patreon for more benefits.

Meal features stories from across the world that examine the social life of food through deep investigative journalism, personal essays, profiles, and original art and photography that nods toward the era of avant-garde magazine design. Meal tells provocative stories that will stick with readers for years to come.

And while Meal is a magazine about food and drink, it also looks to challenge the very notions of what “food writing” can be. It is a platform for moving and unconventional storytelling that features diverse and unique voices, resulting in a publication that uses food as a vehicle for exploring the critical issues of our time. Meal is for food lovers and anybody who enjoys getting lost in a good story. 

Peter Sieve | Co-founder, Editor-In-Chief

A lifelong Minneapolis resident, Sieve has been writing about food for local and national publications since 2009, most notably as a staff writer for Heavy Table. He enjoys sandwiches a great deal, thinks Die Hard is a legit Christmas movie, and is also a guitarist, having worked over the years with artists like Rogue Valley, Chris Koza, Jeremy Messersmith, Lissie, and others. In 2019, Sieve and Meal co-founder Josh Page got together and dreamed about creating a food magazine that was sneakily about not just food, but also … well, everything. Eight months later, Issue 1 of Meal is now published. More than anything, Sieve is incredibly excited about this team and what its created, and can’t wait to get working on Issue 2.

Joshua Page | Co-founder, Executive Editor

Page became fascinated with food as a young latchkey cook in Southern California, and developed a passion for eating out while working in the industry in college, and procrastinating (and accruing debt) as a graduate student. Page was a staff writer at Heavy Table from 2012-2018, and he’s written for Chef’s Feed and The Growler. Page lives a second life as a professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota. An internationally recognized expert on criminal justice, he’s published two books (and is finishing a third), along with dozens of articles and editorials in The Los Angeles Times, The Sacramento Bee, The Appeal, and Zócalo Public Square.  

Molly Each | Executive Editor

Each is a writer, editor, and storyteller. She spent more than a decade working in Chicago at publications like the Splash, and Chicago Sun-Times Sunday magazine. Her food writing has appeared in Lucky Peach, the Chicago Tribune, Plate, Daily Candy, Eater, Michigan Avenue, on Chicago Public Radio and in other outlets.

Each also dabbles in fiction and creative non-fiction, and her work has appeared in publications such as Analemma Quarterly, Eleven Eleven, Fresh Yarn, Hair Trigger, the Story Week Reader, and Toasted-cheese.com.

Each believes in the power of storytelling, and is the co-founder of the culinary reading series Between Bites, which features personal narrative stories from chefs, food writers, restaurateurs and others in the hospitality industry, with proceeds benefiting a local charity. (We've raised more than $50,000 for Chicago area charities!) 

Each moved back to her home state of Minnesota three years ago, and has loved exploring the culinary scene in and around the Twin Cities. She loves the Minneapolis life, but she's grateful to live near Uncle Franky's, so she's not too far from an authentic Chicago hot dog. 

Jake Luck | Art Direction, Layout & Design

Luck is a graphic designer based in Minneapolis, MN. He has been the lead designer for major European music festivals, international environmental organizations, as well as projects for major recording artists. In addition to his work as layout editor for City Pages, Luck has produced content for well-known corporations, in addition to branding for major ad agencies. As a musician, Luck has performed at music festivals like Coachella, on TV shows like Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and has collaborated on recordings with numerous well-known artists whom Luck is too humble to name-drop. 

Bill Phelps | Art Direction & Photography

Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, photographer Bill Phelps has built an impressive career despite having no formal art training, lending his talents to Italian Vogue, French Marie Claire, Conde Nast Traveller UK, The New York Times Magazine, Fortune and Interview, and picking up both an IPA Lucie Award and the Grand Prize of Portraits for the World Press. Phelps is also the co-designer, builder and owner of Cafe Moto in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and the Creative Director of Marvel Citizen in Minneapolis.

Letta Page | Developmental Editor

Page is a disarmingly earnest editor and domesticated roustabout living in Minneapolis, MN. Formerly with Contexts Magazine and The Society Pages, Page has decades of experience editing books and articles for dozens of publishers, journals, and news outlets. Page is a copywriter for cutting-edge comedy label Stand Up! Records, won the University of Minnesota’s Public Sociology Award for outstanding contributions to the discipline and public conversation in 2019, and absolutely gives a fuck about the Oxford comma.

Mecca Bos | Editor-at-Large

Bos has been a professional cook, chef, and food writer since she discovered that walking into a restaurant every day beat walking into an office by a long mile. She started her career in a long-lost neighborhood bistro with a band of weirdos she’ll never forget. In the past 20 years, Bos has worked as a cheesemonger in the Twin Cities and New Orleans, where she also sold produce to that city’s most lauded restaurants out of the back of a refrigerated truck. She’s cooked at roughly forty-hundred restaurants, and has catered a trillion events. Mecca was the food editor of Minneapolis’ now-defunct Metro Magazine, where she spent six years; after that, she spent nearly three years as food blogger and dining critic for City Pages and has contributed to Vice, Paste Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Chef’s Feed, Taste, and others. At the moment, Mecca is the chef of Eat For Equity, a unique benefit corp catering company that uses food as a tool to support nonprofit causes. She continues to freelance, specializing in championing the voices of people of color—especially women of color—in the food industry. For Mecca, being Meal Magazine’s editor-at-large is another in a long line of passionate projects that pays dividends in the coolest people and the best French fries.