Substacks recommended by Jolene Handy

Recommended by Jolene Handy

Delicious things to eat, wear, cook and do. A lifestyle scrapbook (of sorts) by Skye McAlpine.

A writing cook. I moved to a village in southwest France--the other south of France--where I run cooking classes from my home. With recipes.

Quaintrelle

By Erin Henderson

Inspiring ideas and useful information for easy entertaining. Recipes, wine pairings, cocktails, and party tips delivered to your inbox twice weekly.

Like going to the most stylish cocktail party. ✨

- Jolene Handy

Cherchez La Femme

By Melanie Anagnos

Thoughts and writing on pop culture, media and trailblazing women (mostly) in the 1970s, by crime novelist Melanie Anagnos

Claire Ptak’s Substack

Recipes and thoughts from the owner of Violet Cakes London.

SHINE BRIGHT HQ

By SHINE BRI🔆HT HQ

sentences, and music. and the culture. author Danyel Smith writes, recalls, recommends, and overshares.

SHINE BRIGHT HQ sparkles. From music to culture to history and the world, the words of Danyel Smith make me think and there is beauty, humor and truth in them. SHINE BRIGHT HQ is a gift.

- Jolene Handy

Attention Economy

By Leigh Stein

honest advice about making a career as an author today

Leigh Stein: brilliant writer, satirist, (“Self Care” and more) amazing coach and the woman who knows more about how social media works than anyone I know. Did I mention she’s funny?

- Jolene Handy

Wearable Art

By Raquel Laneri

The stories behind what we wear.

Brained by Orli Auslander

LIfe with a brain that won't shut up.

Tea Notes

By erin boyle

Dispatches and digests from Erin Boyle. Very rarely about tea.

The Shift With Sam Baker

By sam baker

Women don't vanish after 40. Who knew?! Amplifying and celebrating the voices of women in midlife and beyond by the former editor of Red, Cosmopolitan (and Just 17!)

Beautifully written insights into living in this world. Plus, fantastic weekly recommendations with links for further reading.

- Jolene Handy

Katelan’s Substack

By Katelan Foisy

My personal Substack

Laura’s Substack

By 'The LB' by Laura Brown

My personal Substack

Spatchcock

By Michael Procopio

Food stories. Mostly. Many with dead celebrity cameos.

Hearthstone Fables

By Kristin Haakenson

Support for seasonal, local, liturgical living | Agrarian roots of the liturgical year | Sacred time, sacred place | Art, resources, & reflections exploring the sacred + the seasonal from an artist, farmer, & mom

On The Cusp

By Maddie Burton

A newsletter for everyone who’s busy becoming the next version of themselves.

Maddie’s poignant writing and authenticity make ‘Your Five-Year Plan’ essential reading. Wise and funny, Maddie has heart.

- Jolene Handy

SLAKE

By Nathan Slake

Slaking your fictional thirst, weekly.

Dinner and a Movie

By Silver Screen Suppers

Treat yourself to a star-spangled experience

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.

Head to toe in cacao

a foodletter about cooking, family and life on a Maine island

Pass the Fish Sauce

By Andrea Nguyen

Weekly dispatches on Asian food and cooking from Andrea Nguyen, a James Beard-award winning author. PTFS is tasty, useful, and about culinary bridge building. Let's connect in the kitchen and at the table.

Apples & Elderflower

By Julia Matusik

Food, recipes and stories from Tasmania's Far South

Seven Senses

By Kenshō studio

Seven creative explorations for your senses.

Noted

By Jillian Hess

Tips from the world's best note takers

Jamie Cat Callan

Living a creative life.

Caravanserai with Samantha Childress

Travel writing for thinkers, daydreamers, and adventurers—a space for the inner journeys that happen in parallel with our real-world excursions. Stoke your wanderlust, feed your soul, and leave feeling a kinship with new cultures.

Beautifully written accounts of life in Cairo.

- Jolene Handy

Current Situation

By kathleen fitzmaurice

Tales of an everyday cancer fighter, not ready to give in or give up just yet

Kathleen cuts through the crap and says what she wants to say. Brilliant writer warrior woman with a wicked sense of humor. Subscribe!

- Jolene Handy

The Heritage Cookbook Project Weekly

By As We Eat

Bite-sized stories illustrating how recipes define, connect & inspire.

Come como Kiki

Culinary adventures and musings on food and culture, dispatched from Madrid

Joy of Cooking Newsletter

By Meg

Musings and recipes from the people's cookbook

Longer Tables with José Andrés

Every meal has the power to change the world.

The Hyphen by Emma Gannon

✨ a cosy online space for curious readers ✨ from Sunday Times Bestselling author Emma Gannon. On books, work, wellbeing & creativity. 5th literature Substack globally. "One of Britain’s most prominent Substack writers" —The Times

Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe

The internet’s most intimate, illuminating interviews with today’s greatest writers—get an in-depth look into the craft of writing and what it means to be a heart-centered human in a hard world.

Historical Supper Club

By Sarah Wassberg Johnson

Food history in context: current events, politics, agriculture, eating

Sarah’s beautiful writing brings history alive.

- Jolene Handy

National Muffin Day

By Julia Levy

A Philanthropic Food Holiday to raise awareness for people experiencing homelessness and hunger.

Unseen St. Louis

By Jackie Dana

St. Louis history that doesn't get memorialized — but shouldn't be forgotten

Buona Domenica

By Domenica Marchetti

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

Beautiful writing and recipes. I look forward to reading Buona Domenica every Sunday morning.

- Jolene Handy

American Weekender

The travel newsletter for food people, edited by longtime journalists who love exploring America. From taco trucks to tasting menus to taverns, we bring you the best places to eat and drink.

Colu Cooks

By Colu Henry

An award-winning cookbook author's recipes for simple, sophisticated food, plus some excellent recommendations to make life more fun.

scone archives

By jess

this, that, culinary memoirs & life...now in northwestern wyoming

Sow, Grow, Harvest, Rest

By Everything Looks Rosie

This is a newsletter for old souls who want to slow down, simplify and connect with the seasons.

As We Eat

a delicious storytelling project exploring how food connects, defines & inspires

Bookstore.Thriftstore.Bar

By Sarah Allison

Keep reading if you enjoy thrift stores+ Reading Books at a Bar.

CAFÉ ANNE

By Anne Kadet

It's a wonderful world—meet the inhabitants!

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

Ann Mah Newsletter

Edible news from bestselling novelist and travel writer Ann Mah

Fog Chaser

By Matt

A new original instrumental song every month from a Pacific Northwest-based musician and composer, along with visuals, poetry, and more.

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.

Easel to Table

By Vicki Smith

Turning food into still life first and dinner second. Art and recipes.

Tokyo Calling

By Gianni Simone

About culture, travel, the joys of slow life, and all things Japanese, of course.

fogo baixo

By Flávia Schiochet

reflexões lentas sobre alimentação, culinária e gastronomia // slow cooking ideas about food, cooking and gastronomy

Kate McDermott's Newsletter

"McDermott is one of the greats, as natural at the craft as M.F.K. Fisher, Marion Cunningham and Laurie Colwin." --Wendell Brock, James Beard Award Winning Writer

The dreamiest writing and beautiful baking.

- Jolene Handy

Dash of Prosecco

By Sinù

Home cooking and sustainable travel reflections from the mainland of Venice, Italy.

Story Cauldron

By Jackie Dana

An eclectic brew of speculative fiction and random thoughts about storytelling

Guided By Angels

By Tracy O’Brien

Angels, Spirits, Guides, Tarot, musings on how we can be better connected, not only to others but also to the spiritual energy in the world, sent every Sunday from my heart to yours.

The Poverty Trap

By Joan DeMartin

The Politics And Policy Choices that Create a Cycle of Economic, Racial and Environmental Inequality...and What We Can Do To Change It.

Unschool for Writers

By Alison Acheson

Playing and working with words: finding your own way to fiction and nonfiction, poetry, and writing for young people

I learn something new with this in-depth and beautifully written newsletter for writers.

- Jolene Handy

The Intrinsic Perspective

By Erik Hoel

Bridging the two cultures of science and the humanities

Non-Boring History

By Annette Laing

Join renegade historian and Brit in the US Dr. Annette Laing on her witty history mystery tour. Substack Featured Newsletter.

Annette makes History ANYTHING but boring! She knows her stuff and then some. Brilliant writing with her sharp wit and wry observations make this a favorite.

- Jolene Handy

The Isolation Journals with Suleika Jaouad

A newsletter for people seeking to transform life's interruptions into creative grist

Anne Byrn: Between the Layers

An honest weekly conversation about life, through the lens of baking and cooking, from the award-winning, best-selling cookbook author.

Beautiful baking, writing and history from the legendary Anne Byrn.

- Jolene Handy

ingredient by Rachel Phipps

By Rachel Phipps (ingredient)

A professional recipe developer's deep dive into a different ingredient each month with exclusive recipes.

Gorgeous food and writing.

- Jolene Handy

A Tiny Apt.

By Christene Barberich

Home + small spaces, style + vintage things, and essays from the founder/former editor of Refinery29...welcome🥤.

Big Magic from a Tiny Apartment. ✨

- Jolene Handy

Local Food Forum

By Bob Benenson

If you love to eat local food... if you grow local food, market local food, serve local food in your farm to table restaurant, teach about local food, expand access to local food, just want to know more about local food... this is YOUR newsletter.

Borscht for Breakfast

By Mia

musings from the crossroads of time, place and the kitchen table.

Food & Fodder

By Juliana Nicewarner

The place where a food-loving author's obsession with flavor and fiction collides. Original recipes paired alongside original short stories (making little things big) and essays (a soufflé journey, grief, and a new love for Taylor Swift and Football)

The Switchboard

By Julia Levy

Explore the ways we communicate & connect at work and beyond with career insights, inspiring stories and best practices from industry leaders.

Elizabeth’s Newsletter from Italy

By Elizabeth Minchilli

Food, drink, fun links & travel (not necessarily in that order)

The next best thing to actually being there!

- Jolene Handy

What To Read If

By Elizabeth

Where book lovers find their next great read.

Every week, Elizabeth delivers brilliant recommendations that tap into the reads you and your mood are searching for.

- Jolene Handy

Everything Is Amazing

By Mike Sowden

A newsletter about seeing more, feeling more, and asking better questions. Curiosity makes everything better - but can it be *learned*? Let's find out.

Championing enthusiasm and curiosity in beautifully written and researched pieces.

- Jolene Handy

Midweek Crisis

By Stygi

Free newsletter packed with good vibes, curated playlists, song recommendations, and music-themed stories from all around the world. Hope to become a regular stop for you!

Good vibes every week!

- Jolene Handy

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 🥗

The salads are delicious and gorgeous and Emily Nunn’s writing is not just informative it’s oh-so-much-fun to read 🥗 Salad never had a better friend.

- Jolene Handy

KitchenWitch

By Jennifer Billock

Stories at the intersection of food and witchcraft.

I’m always learning something new from Jennifer’s terrific writing.

- Jolene Handy

Can we read?

By Sarah Miller

Your weekly guide to children's books, raising readers, and how to build a culture of reading in your home.

Beautifully written and curated reviews of the best children’s books.

- Jolene Handy

Are You Shrieking?!

By Katy Jones-Gulsby

A commonplace collection of things I like & things I write. Here you will find history, culture, writing, with special attention paid to textile history, mysticism, children's literature, and struggling to live authentically in a machine-driven world.

Wordloaf

By Andrew Janjigian

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

BOSS BARISTA

By B O S S B A R I S T A

A newsletter and podcast about a thing you drink everyday. Interviews and articles about big ideas in coffee, the service industry, and collective action.

Ruthtalksfood Newsletter

By Ruth Stroud

Talking about food leads to talking about everything: recipes, family stories, culinary history, healthy eating tips, and holiday tales. I write about it all, plus some truly delicious Jewish treats like rugelach and hamantaschen. Don't miss it!

Jefferson Graham's PhotowalksTV newsletter - Tech & Travel

By Jefferson Graham's #Photowalk newsletter

Jefferson Graham's Photo meets Tech meets Travel updates, Photowalks travel photography, videos and itineraries.

America Eats!

By Pat Willard

A strangely great newsletter for everyone who is curious about American food, its culture and history, and the delights of cooking in our everyday life.

Home by India Knight

By 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, LIFE, plus enthusiasms, recommendations & observations.

No matter what the topic, India writes so beautifully and with such good humor and grace — I feel like I’m sitting in the kitchen having coffee and chatting with an old friend.

- Jolene Handy

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By Substack Writers

Resources, news, and stories for and about writers. Written by the Substack team.

Time Travel Kitchen

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