Cake Zine Special: Steak Zine

Cake Zine is a hedonistic exploration of history, pop culture, literature, and art through sweets... and now, also meats.

Welcome to Steak Zine. For this pocket-sized special issue, Cake Zine is setting off into carnivorous territory. We're serving up 208 pages of non-fiction and fiction exploring the cultural impact of red meat, including:

• The last days of Acropolis, Portland’s beloved strip club-steakhouse, by Sophia June
  
• A profile on the women going viral by eating raw meat online by Ella Quittner
  
• A night at a fictionalized steakhouse kaleidoscoped through the roles of maître d’, bartender, server, chef, and guest, by Leah Abrams, Isle McElroy, Lillian Fishman, Stephanie Wambugu, and Hannah Kingsley-Ma
  
• Examinations of the enduring escapism of Outback Steakhouse and Fogo de Chão by Ruby Robina Saha and Adam Dalva
  
• A trip through Nebraska to trace how historic stockyard closures in the late 1990s have affected those serving up beef in the Beef State, by Jamal Dauda 
  
• A wistful look back at a romance fueled by ribeye and red leather booths, by Emma Specter
  
• NDA-risking testimony from a lab tech at a plant-based food start up who went from vegetarian to carnivore in the noble name of research, by AUTHOR REDACTED
  
• Tracing the roots and uncertain future of Hong Kong’s sizzling steak by Madeline Leung Coleman 
  
• Plus the steak heists prompting retailers to put meat behind lock and key, the body horror of cannibalist cinema, revisiting molecular gastronomy’s embrace of meat glue, the social tensions behind ordering well-done meat, the trauma of growing up on an Australian cattle ranch, and much more.

Contributors: various
Publisher: Cake Zine
Pages: 208pp
Size: 3.5 x 6.5
Notes: perfect bound, color
Release Date: May 1, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-218-91687-9