Kinfolk #59 2026 - The Clean Issue logo design Sometimes cookbooks aren’t just cookbooks

Sometimes cookbooks aren’t just cookbooks

And yet this link in the food chain deserves a moment of our attention

Ein Hexenbesen auf vier Rädern

It highlights the unique and rich aspects of practice-based research

can help us better navigate current debates and controversies

Kinfolk #59 2026 - The Clean Issue logo design Sometimes cookbooks aren’t just cookbooksIssue Fifty Nine of Kinfolk considers the meaning of clean as a ritual, a feeling and an instinct. If youre starting to think about spring cleaning, you can read our longform essay, which examines how clean we really need to be; or else find solace in Dirty Habits, which turns its attention to the universal pockets of imperfection we all havedead plants, missing mugs or a junk drawer. We chart the boom in public bathing culture among younger