As well as following the fashions on the catwalk, the magazine also chronicles culinary trends, and over the years has filled its pages with food that looks almost too good to eat. The best of these images have been gathered together in Food in Vogue, ed Taylor Antrim, with work by Penn considered a pioneer in food photography as well as the likes of Helmut Newton and Annie Leibovitz. Accompanying the pictures (the main course) are profiles of chefs of the moment, along with articles on everything from making the perfect pizza crust to decorating a cake with Andy Warhol. --The Daily Telegraph

Beautiful food images by some of world's best photographers, selected from the archives of American Vogue. That means stunning still lives by Irving Penn and terrific portraiture, with Annie Leibovitz's image of Nigella, her son and a trio of kitchen-wrecking chickens a particular highlight. There's also plenty to read, including a selection of columns from peerless in-house food critic Jeffrey Steingarten who writes of the sensory overload of the last time you ate a perfect peach or every time you have pizza bianca as part of the collective genetic memory of the human race, reaching across national and racial lines, superseding all questions of taste, culture, habit, or custom. Observer Food Monthly