The small food magazine is a species on the rise. A number have arrived in recent years, like Lucky Peach, with its smarts and swagger, and Kinfolk, an ethereal and arty vision of food as lifestyle.

Increasingly, home cooks are forgoing expensive cookbooks in favor of finding recipes online or downloading interactive lessons to their e-readers. Why pay for milk, they reason, when they have free ...

Behind the lines stretching out the door, the “blind special,” the cheery interior with sea foam-painted walls and chalkboards with cute sayings (“brunch without booze is nothing but a sad, late ...