Substacks recommended by Sue Quinn

Recommended by Sue Quinn

Expert in Azerbaijan & Turkic Foodways. Sharing my findings & food from soil to spoon.

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...

Extensive food knowledge, uplifting writing and recommendations you can rely on. A wonderful read.

- Sue Quinn

Recipes and Stories from Eastern Europe

By Irina Georgescu

Free e-newsletter with culinary traditions, news and recipes from Romania.

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.

A unique voice in food and travel writing

- Sue Quinn

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!

Ed is a super clever chef and thoughtful writer. Love his recipes

- Sue Quinn

Sweet Things

By Benjamina Ebuehi

A newsletter filled with plenty of cake and all things sweet. Approachable, flavour focused recipes and bakery recommendations from a cookbook writer and food stylist.

Laura Goodman

By Subsnack

Food, fun, babies and general chaos from your favourite potato pusher

The Kitchen Shrink

By Tamar Adler

Culinary advice and hosting advice from best-selling author and James Beard Award winner, Tamar Adler

The Good Home Cook

By Esther Clark

The Good Home Cook

You just to make all of Esther's dishes - I love her cooking.

- Sue Quinn

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.

Always interesting, science-based nutrition advice

- Sue Quinn

The Substack Soirée

By Sara & Keeley

Free resources and insights to help make your Substack the most exclusive party in town. *PLUS* a new class from ME&ORLA. Subscribe to hear more!

Useful, accessible, fantastic resource!

- Sue Quinn

Flour Power: by Felicity Spector

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

Incredible insights into life in war torn Ukraine, via baking

- Sue Quinn

A Day Well Spent with Leyla Kazim

A newsletter about purposeful living. By BBC presenter, journalist and writer, Leyla Kazim.

Lovely thoughtful writing on an am of topics - every post is interesting

- Sue Quinn

Shore to Shore my Kitchen Journal

By Emily Scott

A cook and her kitchen for recipes, stories and style 🌸 From my Bordeaux kitchen and beyond 🪴

Just a beautiful newsletter for food and cooking inspiration

- Sue Quinn

Rising Up with Yasmin Khan

Join award-winning author Yasmin Khan for conversations on social justice, food, creativity and wellbeing.

Inspiring, delicious and fascinating. Always something that makes you stop and think.

- Sue Quinn

Substack Writers at Work with Sarah Fay

For people who want real, long-term Substack growth: Expert guidance from the leading Substack Strategist, Sarah Fay *** A top-10, featured Substack

For anyone interested in growing their audience - and that's every writer, right?

- Sue Quinn

A Private Chef

By Will Cooper

Working as a private chef on a small family farm, deep in the countryside of rural England. I make vinegar, forage, preserve, smoke and ferment the ingredients around me and am also the guardian of two rather obstinate honeybee colonies.

Fascinating peek behind the pass.

- Sue Quinn

Thank Me Later

By Rachel Khoo

Thank Me Later brings you weekly, feel-good recipes designed with your future self in mind. Simple preparations now, delightful rewards later. Each edition includes Rachel's musings on food and une belle vie, bringing a little joie de vivre.

Catherine is under pressure

By Catherine Phipps

Your guide to changing your life with a pressure cooker.

Quite rightly acclaimed as the goddess of pressure cooking cooking. She knows it all.

- Sue Quinn

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.

Reliable and joyful recipes alongside excellent thoughtful food writing.

- Sue Quinn

Tales from the Veg Patch by Kathy Slack

Step through the garden gate for seasonal (mostly-veggie) recipes and uplifting stories about growing food that will inspire, restore and reconnect you with nature. Written by award-winning cookbook author and rat race escapee.

Delicious recipes, great advice (even if you're a part-time gardener.

- Sue Quinn

The Boy Who Bakes

By Edd Kimber

All things baked. Recipes, bakery recommendations, behind the scenes and more

Drool-worthy baking at its best

- Sue Quinn

The Cook's Edit

By Kate Roxburgh

A focus on the affordable and the inspirational to live life to the full. Restaurant reviews and travel from the weekend papers. London life, the allotment, cookbook reviews, what I’ve been cooking and where to shop and go on holiday

Now I don’t have to read ALL the papers. Snappy, informative, incredibly useful newsletters for eaters and travellersz

- Sue Quinn

The Flavor Files

By Nik Sharma

Unlock the secrets of food science to create more flavorful, effortless meals at home. Written by an Award-Winning, Best-Selling Cookbook Author, Photographer, Chef, Molecular Biologist, and Editor-in-Residence at America's Test Kitchen, Nik Sharma

Bringing food and science together, joyfully and deliciously

- Sue Quinn

Things That Make My Heart Sing by Melissa Hemsley

By Melissa Hemsley feelgood food

A food and life journal of comfort & joy by best-selling cookbook author, sustainability champion and mental health ambassador, Melissa Hemsley

Just a joy!

- Sue Quinn

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.

Always fascinating, always beautifully written, and a unique voice. A writer's writer.

- Sue Quinn

Eat This, Drink That, Live Well

By Fiona Beckett

News, views and tips from a lifetime's cooking, tasting and travelling from former Guardian wine columnist Fiona Beckett

Really useful insights and recommendations from someone with exceptional food and drink knowledge. Also excellent giveaways!

- Sue Quinn

Buona Domenica

By Domenica Marchetti

A lifetime of Italian cooking. Recipes and inspiration delivered every Sunday.

Engaging, knowledgeable and delicious. The perfect food Newsletter.

- Sue Quinn

The Author Stack

By Russell Nohelty

Helping create a sustainable path forward for authors to build businesses that allow them to thrive and lives that light them up inside.

Thoughtful and insightful newsletter with useful advice about how to grow your Substack.

- Sue Quinn

Dianne Jacob's Newsletter

A newsletter for food writers. Come on in!

Excellent advice and information for food writers.

- Sue Quinn

Notes from Emiko’s Kitchen

By Emiko Davies

Writing from Tuscany, Emiko shares recipes, insider travel tips and personal stories about her family life in Italy.

I adore Emiko's writing and her recipes. An original voice

- Sue Quinn

Letters from Tuscany

By Giulia Scarpaleggia

Stories and recipes from my Tuscan kitchen | Seasonal, nourishing, vegetable-forward food by Tuscan food writer and cookbook author Giulia Scarpaleggia.

Topographic Kitchens

By 🍒 🍋 Nic Miller 🍋🍒

A feast of writing about food, eating and cookbooks in one easy-to-access place. Winner of the Guild of Food Writers Award for best online food writing 2020. Written by Fortnum & Mason's Cookery Writer of the Year 2022.

Excellent food writer, deeply researched, always fascinating.

- Sue Quinn

The Bluestocking

By Helen Lewis

I read the internet, so you don’t have to.

Fascinating and instructive! I heartily recommend this for any writer, regardless of their experience.

- Sue Quinn

Vittles

Vittles is an online magazine based in the UK and India, publishing new food and culture writing.

Arguably the very best food writing in one place.

- Sue Quinn

Home

By India

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

Fun reading, super useful and you can always rely on India's sense of style. Love it.

- Sue Quinn

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By Alison Roman

recipes, stories and unsolicited advice from alison roman

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By Substack Team

Resources, stories, and news for the writers, podcasters, musicians, video creators, and culture makers publishing on Substack.