Substacks recommended by Maggie Hoffman

Recommended by Maggie Hoffman

Everything Cookbooks

A newsletter companion to Everything Cookbooks, a podcast for writers, readers, and cooks.

If you've ever thought about publishing your own cookbook, these experts can guide you.

- Maggie Hoffman

The Vintage Table

By Maggie Hoffman

If you love weird forks and plates that look like cabbages, you've come to the right place. Set the table with curated eBay finds and Etsy picks.

SUPPORT THE DINNER PLAN by subscribing to this paid Substack. My curation of fun vintage flatware, serveware, plates, and table decor.

- Maggie Hoffman

Cookbookery Collective

By Jenna Helwig

A community for cookbook enthusiasts

If you love cookbooks, you'll love this new interview series from Jenna Helwig, food director at Real Simple.

- Maggie Hoffman

Lina's cookbooks chronicles

Passionate foodie and cookbook collector, i'm also a working mom.

Dive deep into cookbooks with Lina.

- Maggie Hoffman

Smart Cooks

By Catherine Smart

Recipes + writing for food lovers with busy brains. Plus, a perfect kitchen soundtrack: Talking To Smart People podcast. Delivered fresh every Wednesday.

The New Family Table

By Hillary

The weekly newsletter that helps busy families eat deliciously.

Hillary (a longtime Eater editor) publishes chef-created, carefully tested recipes that actually work for time-strapped cooks.

- Maggie Hoffman

What to Drink

By Maggie Hoffman

Maggie Hoffman fills your glass.

My other newsletter covers cocktails, NA drinks, and other things to sip.

- Maggie Hoffman

Snacking Dinners

By Georgia Freedman

Fun, easy ways to feed yourself at the end of the day!

Make your life easier.

- Maggie Hoffman

Not So Secret Agent

By Sally Ekus

An inside look at cookbook publishing from Sally Ekus, a senior literary agent (and mom, improvisor, and taco enthusiast!). Join a growing community of readers who value transparency and practical insights.

If you dream of publishing a cookbook, you need to follow this substack.

- Maggie Hoffman

Restaurant Dropout

By Zoe Barrie Soderstrom

I make your dinner menus for the week so you don't have to (including grocery lists, recipes, and more)

Stir & Scribble

By Meghan Splawn

Stir & Scribble is a newsletter about food, motherhood, and memory keeping from food editor and award-winning podcast host Meghan Splawn. Subscribe for tested dinner ideas delivered each week and stay for easy baking recipes and musings on journaling.

Meghan is quite simply one of my favorite people on the internet. She always shares great advice—about cooking, about meal planning, baking, and being a human and a parent.

- Maggie Hoffman

playing with food

By paris starn

hi! i’m paris and i love baking and playing around with how my food is assembled, plated, and served. here you’ll get 2 (mostly sweet) artful recipes a month with detailed photo instructions, and 2 newsletters on musings from my creative kitchen

Whimsical and mostly sweet.

- Maggie Hoffman

Have You Eaten Yet?

By Kristina Cho

A weekly newsletter filled with homey recipes and imaginative bakes written by James Beard award-winning author Kristina Cho.

On the Acre by Rachel Hardacre

Sharing what I gather in my garden, from the harvests that fill my basket, to the dishes that fill my table.

Gorgeous, gorgeous entertaining.

- Maggie Hoffman

Nickel & Dine

By Rebecca Firkser

Budget-based recipes that are flavorful and exciting (not just cheap).

noorishbynoor

By Noor Murad

Food, stories, culture and all the bits in between.

Noor Murad's cookbook, Lugma, is so wonderful, and I think you'll love her newsletter, too.

- Maggie Hoffman

On Cooking

By Clare Langan

A culinary newsletter featuring recipes, tips, tools, and what's cooking in the SF Bay Area.

40 Ingredients Forever

By Ali Slagle

Streamlined, joyful weeknight recipes (because they’re all made of the same 40 ingredients).

Leafhopper

By Max Falkowitz

An insider's tour of the tea world, by award winning journalist Max Falkowitz.

The Best Bit

By Clare de Boer

Notes on appetite and recipes to delight it

Modern Chinese Cook

By Betty Liu

Modern Chinese Cook is a newsletter about what I, a Chinese home cook (author of My Shanghai), make in my Chinese American kitchen in Boston: respecting and learning from tradition, but not bound within the strict confines of it.

Betty's cookbooks are such a delight.

- Maggie Hoffman

Snackable Bakes

By Jessie Sheehan

A newsletter chock full of easy-peasy baking recipes, useful tips and tricks, and fascinating personal tidbits from a bestselling cookbook author and podcaster.

Easy and fun baking ideas from a pro!

- Maggie Hoffman

Food Processing

By carla lalli music

We love fat in this house.

Really great recipes from a pro, with some of my favorite cooking videos around.

- Maggie Hoffman

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.

MouthBrain

By Zoë Komarin

A place for food, stories, recipes, and all my antics

A food newsletter with wonderful writing & real personality.

- Maggie Hoffman

Gentle Foods by Christina Chaey

Recipes and essays from a former food editor, ex-line cook, and soon-to-be cookbook author learning to let go of perfectionism in the kitchen

Love these missives and recipes from Christina Chaey—always exactly the sort of food I want to eat.

- Maggie Hoffman

Family Friend by Lukas Volger

Stopping by with a new recipe every week, with a focus on weeknight friendly, high-protein vegetarian & vegan meals made from whole foods

If you've been wanting to add more veg meals to your rotation (with protein, too!) this is a really wonderful place to start.

- Maggie Hoffman

Keep Calm & Cook On

By Julia Turshen

a twice weekly newsletter to help you feel calm + empowered in your kitchen from a bestselling cookbook author 🧡 // tuesdays are lunch recipes! thursdays are a free-for-all!

Rel's Recs

By Ariel

An opinionated newsletter of unsolicited (but very good) recommendations.

EDIBLE LIVING by Sarah Copeland

Unfussy and delicious recipes, travelogues, and strategies from award-winning author and food writer Sarah Copeland.

A Place Is a Gift

By Jonathan Kauffman

Stories about eating the neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. Call it gleanercore.

The lovely writings of Jonathan Kauffman, on eating foraged things and turning a yard into an edible meadow.

- Maggie Hoffman

Long Live

By EV

It’s a twice weekly letter from secondhand-fashion-obsessed writer, Erika Veurink.

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.

Side Dish

Low-lift, high-reward recipes, dinner party menus, and occasional musings on running a farm and garden in the Catskills.

Love reading Alexis for dinner party inspiration, helpful recipe walk-throughs, and a taste of life in upstate New York.

- Maggie Hoffman

ZAYNAB ISSA

By Zaynab Issa

What I'm cooking, where I've been, things I'm loving, and what's on my mind.

Dinner: A Love Story

By Jenny Rosenstrach

A newsletter devoted to reading, eating, and family dinner, however you define "family" and however you define "dinner." Written by the bestselling author of the Dinner: A Love Story book series including, most recently "The Weekday Vegetarians."

What To Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking

By caro chambers

one ridiculously impressive complete-meal recipe delivered to your inbox every saturday morning that dirties minimal dishes and requires under an hour of time.

Letter from Berlin

By Luisa Weiss

Food, books & stories from my Berlin kitchen

I've been reading the lovely writing of Luisa Weiss for (I think?) literally decades now, and I always look forward to this newsletter. Check out her new book Classic German Cooking, too!

- Maggie Hoffman

The Epestle

By Leela Punyaratabandhu

Thai food in America and several long-considered but barely filtered thoughts on the subject (plus, of course, recipes)

The Girl Who Begrudgingly Cooked Everything

By Robyn

Do you like cooking? I don't. Anyway, here's a bunch of words about something I cooked.

Robyn has been writing (delightfully) about food for, well, forever. We used to work together at Serious Eats, where we survived on tiny tiny slivers of sandwiches (after photographing them, of course.)

- Maggie Hoffman

DEVOUR by Odette Williams

By Odette Williams DEVOUR

Simple Recipes. Good Times. An excuse to live a little hits your inbox every Tuesday & Thursday.