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Recommended by Fiona Beckett

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

Test. Taste. Repeat.

By Lulu

A brand-new newsletter from the Good Food test kitchen team; a behind-the-scenes look at what we geek over when we’re developing recipes, making video and podcasts, and chatting about food.

Clare McGinn

From a hill in Belfast; thinking aloud, breathing deep, cooking up ideas and writing them down.

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

- Fiona Beckett

Sami Tamimi

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

Chris Pople

Londoner, Blogger, Eater

Flavour Nuggets by Helen Graves

Recipes and tips that add excitement to everyday cooking.

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

- Fiona Beckett

Garlic, Mint & Sweet Basil

By Alex Jackson

A place to record things I cook and recipes for them.

One of my favourite chefs in London, author of 2 great cookery books, Sardine and Frontières

- Fiona Beckett

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

Borough Chef Weekly

By Beth Adamson

Hi I’m Beth Adamson, a chef and food writer making recipes @boroughchef. My newsletter is a celebration of vegetarian cooking. The recipes are simple and achievable, but most importantly prioritise flavour always. Expect exclusive recipes and more.

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

- Fiona Beckett

Sunday Sauce by James Ramsden

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

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.

Onwards and Sideways! By Sophia Money-Coutts

A newsletter about the silliness of (my) life, featuring everyday mishaps, telly, books, bad jokes and perhaps occasional observations about the Royal family (how DOES she get her hair so shiny etc). Cerebral stuff like that.

Overwhelmed by the depressing state of the world? This is the perfect antidote.

- 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.

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

Have Your Cake

By Liz Prueitt

I’m Liz, the 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!

The Morning Claret

By Simon J Woolf

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

Through The Tides with Trine Hahnemann

A female perceptive in this time and age.

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

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 Gut Makeover

By Jeannette Hyde

A practical guide to better digestion, brain, and immunity through gut foods and simple habits. Science/clinical-practice informed. Weekly.

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

- 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.

Drinking Culture

By Henry Jeffreys

A newsletter about alcohol, culture and history.

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

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.

Elisabeth Luard's Cookstory

Cookstory is a show-and-tell way of looking at how people cook at home all over the world. The images are based on my own watercolour sketches collected over a lifetime of travelling with my paintbox.

A totally original Substack from a cookery writer who draws as well as she writes

- Fiona Beckett

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

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.

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

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

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.

Warm and witty dispatches on life in the Languedoc in southern France.

- Fiona Beckett

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.

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.

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