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Recommended by Wayne Christensen

FRESH HELL Tina Brown's Diary

By Tina Brown

Tina Brown's observations, rants, news obsessions, and human exchanges.

From a former personal chef turned mostly stay-at-home mom: a newsletter meant to help and inspire those who want an uncomplicated approach to learning how to be a better cook for themselves and their family.

My personal Substack

Join Nancy Silverton, Laurie Ochoa and Ruth Reichl in truly delicious conversations about food.

I'd recommend a glass of water if Ruch Reichl endorses it!

- Wayne Christensen

The David Blahg

By David Leite

Essays, humor, food writing, recipes, and musings from an inveterate cook, baker, and eater. An irrepressible Cat Lady.

Jeremiah Tower's Out of the Oven

A weekly selection of my personal archives, written, photos, videos, menus, and other visual materials, on eating, cooking, and travel from the simplest to the grandest, everyone from local fishermen to the world’s most famous names. Hope you like it!

The Sassafras Curio

By Martin Philip

Bespoke baking, craft stories

Simply Marvy!

- Wayne Christensen

Buona Domenica

By Domenica Marchetti

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

La Briffe

By Ruth Reichl

A newsletter about cooking, eating and making life more delicious.

Simply the best of the best . . . .

- Wayne Christensen

Easel to Table

By Vicki Smith

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

Chock full of lovely illustrations and stories.

- Wayne Christensen

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 Camont Journals with Kate Hill

By Kate Hill in France

The Camont Journals, published weekly, are based on a lifetime of French inspiration from the kitchen, garden, farms, and markets of Gascony and written at the Relais de Camont, my home and creative writer’s residency in Southwest France.

The EndGame

By Don Akchin

Aging with purpose and joy. The EndGame is an inquisitive, empathetic, and humorous exploration of all aspects of age, for those who are not ready to fade away.

Thought-provoking geezer wisdom galore.

- Wayne Christensen

Ruhlman's Newsletter

By Michael Ruhlman

A bi-weekly mix of food-related stories, recipes, cocktails, and travel, along with recommendations for movies and books from both me and my novelist wife, Ann Hood, and links to the best stories we've read online.

I've admired Michael Ruhlman from the day he wrote The French Laundry Cookbook!

- Wayne Christensen

The Bittman Project

By Mark Bittman

A home for those who believe food is everything and should be treated that way. We celebrate the joy it brings us, but also focus on the very real challenges of making it sustainable and available for all.

From an icon of the food world, Mark Bittman.

- Wayne Christensen

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.