Substacks recommended by Sue Quinn

Recommended by Sue Quinn

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; the return of '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

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 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

Seeking pathways to more purposeful living. Words about self-empowerment, slow and sustainable living and personal fulfilment and growth. By BBC presenter, writer and journalist Leyla Kazim.

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

- Sue Quinn

Shore to Shore

By Emily Scott

Hello and welcome to my newsletter of sorts a glimpse into my life *Shore to Shore* so lovely to be here with you. A place I share my recipes, stories and style from Cornwall and beyond.

Just a beautiful newsletter for food and cooking inspiration

- Sue Quinn

Notes from the Underground with David Aaronovitch

The best Substack in the Anglosphere by top British journalist, David Aaronovitch

Rising Up with Yasmin Khan

A newsletter about how to thrive in a world that feels like it’s imploding. Join award-winning author Yasmin Khan for uplifting conversations on creativity, food, well-being and social change.

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

- Sue Quinn

Substack Writers at Work

By Sarah Fay

The only expert guide to Substack—the fastest, most efficient way to grow your Substack, earn an income, and produce your best work ✦ Home of the 2024 Substack Growth Cohort

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

- Sue Quinn

A Private Chef

By Will Cooper

I’m a private chef for a UHNW family on their organic farm, deep in rural England. I make vinegar, forage, preserve, smoke and ferment and am guardian of two honeybee colonies. Every week there's a newsletter for you.

Fascinating peek behind the pass.

- Sue Quinn

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-but-elevated recipes from an award-winning British food writer and working mum living by the sea. Plus curated recommendations and writing on travel, eating out, interiors, coastal life and all things that bring 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 Cook's Edit

By Kate Roxburgh

I read the weekend newspapers so you don't have to. A digest of travel articles in the UK and Europe, restaurants reviews and recipes with a focus on the accessible and affordable.

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

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.

Bringing food and science together, joyfully and deliciously

- Sue Quinn

Things That Make My Heart Sing by Melissa Hemsley

A 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 Imperfect Umbrella

Food, from plot to plate: writing a book here live, the writing process, and more, by 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 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

Kitchen Projects

By Nicola Lamb

Taking the Recipe Development process from behind the scenes directly to you. Part toolkit, part love letter to food, this is a deep dive into dessert and pastries.

Hugely informative - fascinating and useful expert knowledge. A newsletter packed with information and delicious recipes.

- Sue Quinn

Tales From 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 Knight

There should really be a section called Home & Lifestyle. But hello! This is a newsletter about books, interiors, gardens, cooking, being at home, being outside, places to stay, shopping, dogs, hens, LIFE, plus enthusiasms, recommendations & observations.

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

- Sue Quinn

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