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 ...

Short Stack’s menu is also divided into savory and sweet, “because this is how people think about breakfast food,” Lindenmeyer says. While the vegan stack of pancakes satiates the sweet tooth, Short ...