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Recommended by Fiona Beckett

Drinking Culture

By Henry Jeffreys

A newsletter about alcohol, culture and history.

Through The Tides with Trine Hahnemann

A female perceptive in this time and age.

Leather Saints Archive

A weekly newsletter exploring the untold stories of the artists, musicians, poets, and filmmakers who inhabited New York's 1960/70s golden age. Through the lens of Patti Smith's Just Kids.

My stepson Flyn's deep dive into the world of Patti Smith and the artists, poets, film-makers and musicians who inhabited New York of the '60s and '70s.

- Fiona Beckett

Until Golden: Recipes and Stories from Bee Wilson

By Until Golden: Recipes and Writing

Ways to get back to joy in the kitchen even on days that are busy or stressed. Cooking with the senses. Plus random thoughts on books, music, films, kitchen objects.

Bee is one of the UK's best food writers with some brilliant books to her name so it's great to see her here.

- Fiona Beckett

Home

By India

My journal x my Notes app - mostly books, food, interiors, shopping, home life, plus observations and enthusiasms.

India Knight on top form. What other reason do you need to subscribe?

- Fiona Beckett

The Irish Stew

By John and Sally McKenna

Eat, Stay & Explore Ireland

Everything you need to know about eating and travelling in Ireland

- Fiona Beckett

Journeys Beyond Borders with Caroline Eden

Each newsletter is a dispatch from a single location—it could be a city or a hotel, a valley or a café—somewhere between Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Every issue will include reading recommendations, a unique recipe and underreported tales.

Mark Diacono's Abundance

Food and everything connected, by James Beard shortlisted and multi award-winning author and photographer Mark Diacono, of Otter Farm, once of River Cottage.

Is there anything Mark Diacono can't do? Writes like a dream, develops delicious recipes, takes his own pictures. Follow for insights into publishing too.

- Fiona Beckett

The Morning Claret

By Simon J Woolf

Critical analysis and independent opinion on natural wine, delivered to your inbox weekly

Mark Hix

Chef, forager, and food writer — three decades shaping British food.

Despite being a chef Mark is one of the best home cooks in England. Great to find him here.

- Fiona Beckett

A Thousand Fragments

By Matt Inwood

A Thousand Fragments brings together my thoughts on a wide variety of the cultural things which I love: especially books, music and food.

KB's Joyous Things

By Karen Barnes

If you like the idea of a carefully chosen, tested mix of food, restaurant and travel-related gems, with interviews, thoughts and recipes woven in, I'm hoping you'll love my newsletter. Please do join me on the journey...

A new Substack from the immensely experienced (and incredibly nice) former editor of Delicious

- Fiona Beckett

France Traveller Newsletter

By Carolyn Boyd

Tips and inspiration for travelling in France from expert writer and author Carolyn Boyd

Borough Chef Weekly

By Beth Adamson

Borough Chef Weekly is a celebration of vegetarian cooking - chock with simple flavour-packed recipes, menus, useful tips and insights.

Great to see this hugely popular insta account on Substack. Recipes that could turn you veggie.

- Fiona Beckett

The Bristol Sauce

By Meg Houghton-Gilmour

The home of Bristol restaurant intel.

All the lowdown you need on Bristol's under the radar restaurant scene.

- Fiona Beckett

The View from My Table

By Andy Neather

Thoughts on food and wine trends from the former wine critic of the London Evening Standard

Former Evening Standard comment editor, writing on food and (mainly) wine. Proper journalist.

- Fiona Beckett

ROCKET & SQUASH | A Cook's Digest | by Ed Smith

A digest of good things: recipe columns including thrifty weeknight dishes and sides to build your meal around; 'Supplemental', my roundup of the best recipes in papers and on the web; and more!

Excellent cook, good writer, all-round good egg (appropriately enough given the subject of his latest book)

- Fiona Beckett

The Spirits

By Richard Godwin

Like a book club but for cocktails. Every Friday, around 4pm GMT, I will send a classic recipe to your inbox together with a specially curated musical playlist to match - plus essays, links, literary talk, portals to more elegant dimensions, etc.

Great cocktails and elegant writing from journalist Richard Godwin

- Fiona Beckett

Lens Soup by Kirstie Young

Taking a look at life through the soup splattered lens of a Food Photographer. Join me for the low down on making everyone feel hungry one shot at a time.

Chris Pople

Londoner, Blogger, Eater

Test. Taste. Repeat.

By Lulu

Test. Taste. Repeat. is a Substack from the recipe testers of Good Food’s test kitchen. GoodFood.com is the UK’s largest recipe archive, home to endless variations of every dish you can imagine; but here, we share our favourite take on recipes we love.

Fascinating behind the scenes glimpses into the recipe development process from the BBC Good Food team.

- Fiona Beckett

Catherine is under pressure

By Catherine Phipps

Your guide to changing your life with a pressure cooker.

Pressure cooker-phobic? Cat will change your life!

- Fiona Beckett

Flavour Nuggets by Helen Graves

Flavour Nuggets is a recipe newsletter, exploring ways to bring BIG, BOLD flavours to your everyday cooking.

Aptly named Substack for recipes that are literally bursting with flavour. Big fan.

- Fiona Beckett

Have Your Cake

By Liz Prueitt

I’m Liz, co-founder of Tartine Bakery and an award-winning pastry chef. After years of being gluten free myself, I’m now practiced in the art of making it not only doable but delicious. Let’s bake!

Lickedspoon with Debora Robertson

By Debora Robertson 🦀

Welcome to my newsletter. This is where I share stories from my seaside village in the South West of France, my trips to the market, weekly recipes, and updates on our house renovation. Most of it’s free, and will always be free.

Pen and Spoon

By Sue Quinn

Effortless recipes and dispatches from the front line of food by award-winning food writer and cook book author Sue Quinn. Latest book: Second Helpings: delicious dishes to transform your leftovers.

The Gut Makeover

By Jeannette Hyde

The inside scoop on digestive-brain-immune-wellbeing from a science-based food-loving experienced nutritionist

An honest, down to earth take on the minefield of health advice out there

- Fiona Beckett

Notes on a Napkin

By Dan O'Regan

Notes on a Napkin is a candid, irreverent dive into the realities of restaurant life, mixing industry truths with cultural commentary and a restaurateur’s POV of the beautiful chaos behind the scenes.

Fascinating insights as to how restaurants really work

- Fiona Beckett

Flour Power: by Felicity Spector

Telling stories of food and resistance in wartime Ukraine - and other scenes from an accidental baking life.

Regular dispatches from Ukraine from the wholly admirable journalist, TV producer and enthusiastic baker Felicity Spector

- Fiona Beckett

Thane’s Substack

By Thane Prince

Food, travel, maybe even a recipe once I figure out how this works. expect a lot of Malaga content, London restaurants, recipes from my kitchen and general rants. Dyslexic so expect exciting spelling.

The only person I know who eats out as often as I do ...

- Fiona Beckett

Wine Thinking

By Robert Joseph

Thoughts of a wine industry analyst, wine brand creator and consultant

Sunday Sauce by James Ramsden

A weekly newsletter containing notes and recipes for well-fed Sundays

Used to be one of my student collaborators when I was writing student cookbooks. Now a star in his own right.

- Fiona Beckett

Joe Fattorini's Substack

Home of the wine marketing masterclass - MBA-level insights for wine professionals and students every Wednesday. Chapters from "On Claret" a lavatory book on red Bordeaux every Friday. And wine, society, and culture posts in between.

A Lot On Her Plate

By Rosie Birkett

Easy, joyful seasonal recipes and stories from an award-winning British food writer living by the sea. Plus, curated inspiration on travel, dining, homes & interiors, coastal life and everything that brings the magic.

Lovely recipes and food ideas from former Sunday Times cookery writer Rosie Birkett

- Fiona Beckett

Lia’s Living Almanac

By Lia Leendertz

Join me to mark and celebrate the seasons as they change

Regula Culinaria - By Regula Ysewijn

A newsletter from Regula Ysewijn

Gulp & Sniff with Victoria Moore

Notes on wine, food and smell from the author of the Wine Dine Dictionary. A few recommendations, too.

Great to see The Telegraph's wine writer Victoria Moore cutting loose on Substack

- Fiona Beckett

Clare McGinn

Napoleon’s Nose is a weekly channel of essays and audio about food, culture and memory — rooted in Ireland, written for curious readers everywhere.

Newly on Substack, Clare writes like a dream. I read every post

- Fiona Beckett

Eat Sleep Wild

By Monica Shaw

Scottish Highlands-based nature lovers sharing our unbridled enthusiasm for the outdoors and this amazing planet. Hiking routes, outdoor recipes, geology, astronomy, and van life Scotland tips for low impact living.

Hot Air by philip sweeney

By Philip Sweeney

A pot pourri of observations on this and that. Subjects include travel, arts, world affairs and society. Sometimes restaurants and bars. Incorporating the Vol au Vent Society.

Have dragged my mate Phil onto Substack so please encourage him by subscribing. He's a smart, funny food and travel writer & broadcaster. Listen to his current series on the French metro on the BBC

- Fiona Beckett

Sami Tamimi

I always loved writing, sharing stories, recipes and dishes I’m cooking