After departing from frankie in February last year, co-founders of the title Louise Bannister and Lara Burke are headed back into the publishing world with the launch of parenting lifestyle quarterly magazine Lunch Lady.
The magazine marks the first title to be published by Bannister and Burke's independent publishing house We Print Nice Things. Lunch Lady is based on a blog of the same name written by Australian photographer and mother-of-two Kate Berry, who will be editor of the magazine.
Aimed at food-focused parents aged between 30 to 49, Lunch Lady is a heavily-stylised publication featuring recipes, real life parenting stories, art, photography, profile pieces and humour.
Explaining the decision to launch Lunch Lady, Bannister tells B&T Magazine: “This is the time of our lives, and there was nothing out there for creative parents like us. Now we’ve grown up. We’re hoping people from frankie will move across with us.”
She went on to tell Mumbrella: “It’s … a reflection of the day-to-day reality of being a parent as well as seeing the lighter side of being a parent and having a laugh about it. That’s the difference between Lunch Lady and the conventional parenting magazines. It’s more about sharing our experiences than informing people how to do a better job.”
Berry adds: “We want to build a community of lunch ladies. We really want it to be that you pick it up and it feels like a friend. It’s a realistic portrayal of the day-to-day life as parents, and it acknowledges that we’re still people – we are parents, but we’re still the same people we were before we became parents.”
The first edition of the magazine will be available from November 16.
