Gravy: Winter 2026

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The stories in the Winter 2026 issue of Gravy speak to the power and pleasure of shared work and of leisure time spent in community. 

Katie Carter King takes readers to 1950s Louisiana, where sugar refinery workers formed an interracial coalition to advocate for better pay. In present-day Texas, Valentina Abril writes of Latino immigrant restaurant workers, who wonder what will become of the communities they’ve built as threats of deportation escalate. John Kessler joins backyard-grilling aficionados across the country and around the world as they gather around the iconic product of an Atlanta company with a Japanese backstory: the Big Green Egg. 

In an essay by LaToya Faulk, siblings bond over fried bologna sandwiches years before life circumstances take them in different directions. Rural neighbors gather to harvest and press sorghum cane the old-fashioned way in a piece written by Jared Phillips, with photographs by Melyssa St. Michael. Julie Chantal Thompson visits a Georgia barbecue restaurant where Mahjong tiles click and clack. Sara Mardanbigi, co-owner of Nixta Taqueria, shares her favorite places in her home of Austin, Texas. 

The stories in this issue illustrate how shared labor, shared pleasure, and shared food make our lives worth living.

Cover illustration by Emily Wallace