An occasional magazine of good taste · Summer 2026 Edition
Asterisca
Drinks, places, people, and the myths we build around them.
Summer 2026
8 stories- N°08 · Sport · Mythology The Jinx A goat gets thrown out of a ballpark, and a city loses for seventy-one years. A field guide to the sporting curse — the most beloved unfalsifiable claim in the stadium, and what it’s really made of. Read the story →
- N°07 · Food · Culture No MSG Added The most successful nutrition slogan of the last half-century defended against a syndrome that kept failing to appear in a lab. A history of a fear that attached to a molecule — and, tellingly, to a cuisine. Read the story →
- N°06 · History · Mythology Five Thousand to One The received story of Inchon is a lone genius who overruled every doubter and pulled off an impossible landing. The landing was real. The lone genius was, to a remarkable degree, a monument the general built to himself. Read the story →
- N°05 · Drinks · Mythology Papa Drank Here A global franchise of bars swears Hemingway drank right here. An audit of how many could be true — and what a bar is really selling when it sells you a dead man’s stool. Read the story →
- N°04 · Culture · Folklore You’ll Never Guess Who I Had in the Back A field guide to the receipt-less brush with greatness — the cabbie’s boast, the pub’s untouchable stool, the roadie’s migrating tale. The stories aren’t about the famous; they’re about standing near the fire. Read the story →
- N°03 · Food · Culture The Last Macro Standing Fat did its decade as the dietary villain; carbs did theirs. Protein never took a turn — and now it’s in your bread, your water, and your moral framework. A short history of the nutrient we can’t stop counting, and an audit of the counting. Read the story →
- N°02 · Travel · Mythology Castles Made of Sand Jimi Hendrix gave Morocco eleven days in 1969. A village outside Essaouira has spent the fifty years since turning them into scripture — and almost none of it survives contact with a calendar. Read the story →
- N°01 · Drinks The Classics Issue Twelve drinks that built the bar: the recipes, the histories, the myths and the cameos — poured neat, no filler. Read the story →