Lucky Peach is a quarterly journal of food and writing. Each issue focuses on a single theme, and explores that theme through essays, art, photography, and recipes. All hail the true rulers of earth-Kingdom Plantae! The Plant Kingdom Issue of Lucky Peach celebrates the great many things you can do with fruits and vegetables, from cooking and eating them, to growing and grafting new ones, to churning them into ice cream, to growing big-ass ones. We talk to Deborah Madison, who, through her food and her writing, redefined vegetarian cooking in America. We take an unflinching look at the reality of producing white sugar, find out the truth about Ethiopian teff, meet a few mezcaleros, and get a lesson in the art of fruit massage. Daniel Humm turns daikon into fish, and Sam Mason turns baked beans into dessert. Meanwhile, Barbara Lynch, Joshua McFadden, and Marc Vetri showcase the many simpler splendors of cooking with vegetables.