Substacks recommended by Andrea Nguyen

Recommended by Andrea Nguyen

Start every week with fresh dinner inspiration.

Maggie knows cooking and cookbooks more than most folks. She’s always down for meaningful convos. You won’t regret listening to what she has to say!

- Andrea Nguyen

Little Soybean

By Hannah Che

Dispatches on regional Chinese food and vegetable-focused cooking. A newsletter by James Beard award-winning author Hannah Che.

Tap Is Fine!

By Khushbu Shah

A newsletter about what to eat and where to travel, with weekly curated restaurant guides — and then some — from Food & Wine magazine's former Restaurant Editor.

When Khushbu left Food & Wine, I hoped to keep up with all her eating adventures. Now I can and you should too!

- Andrea Nguyen

40 Ingredients Forever

By Ali Slagle

Streamlined, joyful weeknight recipes (because they’re all made of the same 40 ingredients).

Grape to Table Newsletter

By Sarah O'Kelley

Wine, Food & Travel (recipes too)!

Stranger's Guide

Stranger's Guide explores how politics, power and culture shape daily life across the globe. Featuring unexpected topics, from the complex and controversial to the intimate and beautiful.

The LO Times

By Ryan Sutton

Your cheat sheet to NYC's best restaurants. Subscribe for reviews, best of lists, breaking news, and personal recommendations from professional food critic Ryan Sutton.

Cooks Without Borders

By Leslie Brenner

The Webby Award-winning newsletter celebrating food culture from around the world ~ quintessential recipes and the stories behind them. Brought to you by James Beard Award-winning writer and cook Leslie Brenner.

Two Red Bowls

By Cynthia Chen McTernan

little missives on food, family, and probably the weather

Cannot wait to read more of Cynthia’s missives. Her recipes are damn good.

- Andrea Nguyen

Hidden Japan

By Leon

Understand the Japanese Psyche with a local English speaker's perspective

FARIDEH is the best

By Farideh Sadeghin

ramblings. recipes. videos. EVERY THURSDAY!

It's all true about Farideh. She's extra sharp. I've long trusted Farideh for cooking smarts and giggles. You should too.

- Andrea Nguyen

Spatchcock

By Michael Procopio

Food stories. Mostly. Many with dead celebrity cameos.

Fresca: A Recipe Newsletter

By Paola Bri-González

A newsletter to remind you that home cooking is always the best kind of cooking

The Recovering Line Cook

By Wil Reidie

I write essays inspired by my life as a restaurant cook. Subscribe for memoir stories, restaurant cooking tips, and my favourite recipes.

Food Processing

By carla lalli music

We love fat in this house.

Carla unleashes her kitchen smarts with a dash or two of humor in her FP dispatches. Her savvy tips will definitely up your cooking game.

- Andrea Nguyen

Maria’s Newsletter

By Maria Rodale

Life. Unfiltered.

Insights, humor and wisdom from someone who has seen and done a lot.

- Andrea Nguyen

Gentle Foods by Christina Chaey

A newsletter by Christina Chaey about cooking how you want to feel. Recipes, essays, interviews, and more delivered to your inbox twice weekly.

We all need more calm and joy in our cooking lives.

- Andrea Nguyen

MISSION: DINNER

By Kristin

Weeknight recipes that use supermarket ingredients and take about 30 minutes, from a cookbook author, mom, and former Food & Wine editor. The answer to your dinner doldrums.

Smart, streamlined recipes plus a bit humor is what I often need to get dinner made. Kristin *always* delivers. She also has you covered swaps for various kinds of situations and dietary preferences.

- Andrea Nguyen

The Flavor Files

By Nik Sharma

A Cooking Course in Food Science to Make More Flavorful and Easier Meals in Your Kitchen Written by a 2X James Beard, Finalist and 3X IACP, Multi-Award Winning, Best-Selling Cookbook Author and Photographer, Chef, and Molecular Biologist Nik Sharma.

Slice of Midlife

By Alison Krupnick

Musings (with a foodie-focus) about this unique life stage, generously defined.

Many of us can identify with Alison's insights but not share them in her inimitable way.

- Andrea Nguyen

Mess Hall

By Marian Bull

A newsletter from Marian Bull about home cooking: why we do it, how to do it better, and how it interacts with the lives we live. Recipes, cookbook reviews, and recommendations to help make you a happier cook.

To Vegetables, With Love

By Hetty Lui McKinnon

A vegetable life less ordinary, with Hetty Lui McKinnon

There's always tons to glean from Hetty's writing and recipes. I look forward to her dispatches and intimate conversations!

- Andrea Nguyen

Story Club with George Saunders

A place to explore the way the short story works.

We all need a bit of George in our reading and writing lives.

- Andrea Nguyen

The California Table

By Georgia Freedman

Stories and Recipes from Home Cooks Across the Golden State

A well-seasoned food writer, Georgia reports and writes with care about the best that the Golden State has to offer.

- Andrea Nguyen

The Food Section

By Hanna Raskin

Now located at thefoodsection.com

I grew up on old school weekly food sections in my newspaper. Hanna publishes solid, well-edited stories from the South. I don't live there but I want to know about it.

- Andrea Nguyen

Time Travel Kitchen

By Jolene Handy

Food, History, Chicago, New York and Beyond.

Susanality

By Susan Spungen

Highly seasonal recipes from Susan Spungen inspired by the market (sometimes just the supermarket) and musings about life in and out of the kitchen.

Wise, calm, and beautifully developed recipes and pointers for you and your cooking life.

- Andrea Nguyen

Salt + Spine

By Brian Hogan Stewart

Salt + Spine is the leading podcast on stories behind cookbooks, featuring in-depth interviews with cookbook authors. ‍Plus find featured recipes from favorite cookbooks, join our Cookbook Club, and more!

For cookbook geeks. S+P offers in-depth interviews that go beyond the covers.

- Andrea Nguyen

The Amateur Gourmet Newsletter

By Amateur Gourmet

Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts, a food writer who doesn't take himself too seriously.

XO Soused

By Andrew Wong and Mukta Das

A fortnightly chat about techniques and dishes from a professional Chinese kitchen, their history and their cultural setting. Sent out every other Tuesday.

Dinner: A Love Story

By Jenny Rosenstrach

A newsletter devoted to reading, eating, and family dinner, however you define "family" and however you define "dinner." Written by the bestselling author of the Dinner: A Love Story book series including, most recently "The Weekday Vegetarians."

Funny and real, Jenny's dispatches bring joy to my cooking and reading life.

- Andrea Nguyen

The Bittman Project

By Mark Bittman

A home for those who believe food is everything and should be treated that way. We celebrate the joy it brings us, but also focus on the very real challenges of making it sustainable and available for all.

David Lebovitz Newsletter

A tasty mix of recipes, Paris food tips, personal stories, and more... Sign up and get my newsletter delivered right to your Inbox!

Many people love Paris but few live and breathe Paris the way David does.

- Andrea Nguyen

Broccoli Rising, the Newsletter from Ellen Kanner

By Ellen Kanner

Passionately plant-based, naturally quirky.

EAT. DRINK. THINK. from Edible San Francisco

By Bruce Cole

Bruce pulls together dispatches that are punchy, fun, and practical.

- Andrea Nguyen

the smitten kitchen digest

By deb perelman

notes, updates, and seasonal cooking from the smitten kitchen

The Department of Salad: Official Bulletin

By Emily Nunn

Step into our salad laboratory. We got your leafy greens, your grains, your veg, and protein. Plus: salady guests, salady books & recipes, recipes, recipes 🥗

Singapore Noodles

By Pamelia

A weekly newsletter dedicated to celebrating Asian culinary traditions—the traditional cooking techniques, rich food histories, and personal stories that make each dish more than just a recipe.

Food doesn't taste great without stories.

- Andrea Nguyen

Wordloaf

By Andrew Janjigian

A thrice-weekly, IACP-nominated breaducational newsletter from Andrew Janjigian. "Pedantic crap!" — A (former) reader

Even if you don't regularly bake, Andrew's newsletter is full of good insights for understanding doughy goodness.

- Andrea Nguyen

Stained Page News

Stained Page News now lives at http://stainedpagenews.beehiiv.com! Go there for all your cookbook news.

If you write, make or read cookbooks, Paula's SPN provides plenty of insider tips to stir the pot.

- Andrea Nguyen

From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy

Essays, criticism, and interviews on food, culture, and media sent out on Monday morning. Paid subscribers receive additional posts on Fridays and have access to commenting, the recipe archive, and more.