One of life's great treasures is a kitchen swirling with music and aromas. This Issue 9: Food playlist was made to get things cookin', from slow burns to deep-fried jams, all spiced to perfection. Boil beets to MF Doom's beef beats, crunch on celery with Paul McCartney in Brian Wilson's Vegetables, or start your day with a balanced breakfast served up by Gorillaz and Gruff Rhys. Food and sweet tunes go together like peanut butter and jelly, so turn up the heat and jam out with us! Many thanks to the whole ILLUSTORIA staff, friends and family who helped make this rad playlist, and to Annie Dills for the illustration.

Share your favorite tasty tune on Instagram with the hashtag #ILLUSTORIAplaylist! Listen in the link below, or on Spotify. And be sure to order your copy of Issue 9: Food on the McSweeney’s site. Bon appetit!

Drum roll please…. for Illustoria’s #9: The Food Issue! This first issue under our new publisher McSweeney’s is bursting with culinary delight, and is sure to satisfy any tummy rumbling for creativity. Feast your eyes on a delicious, impossibly groovy cover by illustrator Mar Hernández, in her signature bold and vibrant style.

Get inspired by food youth activists Rachel Parent (founder of non-profit Kids Right to Know), Ziyon Williams (volunteer at urban farm Acta Non Verba), and Mikaela Ulmer (founder of lemonade company Me&theBees) who share their stories of entrepreneurship in brilliant interviews.

Obsess over obscure facts about famous writers & their snacking habits in our ongoing series, Literary Giants, by Elizabeth Haidle.

Check out finger licking DIYs and recipes, with instructions for making broiled grapefruit, interviews with famous chefs, pancakes for your dogs, and paint brushes foraged from the wild!