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Recommended by Catherine Phipps

All things abortion. Feminist commentary & community.

The amount of research which goes into this newsletter is mind boggling. It is an absolute must if you are remotely interested in understanding and protecting women's rights.

- Catherine Phipps

Pen and Spoon

By Sue Quinn

Effortless recipes and dispatches from the front line of food by award-winning food writer and cook book author Sue Quinn. Latest book: Second Helpings: delicious dishes to transform your leftovers.

KB's Joyous Things

By Karen Barnes

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...

Flavour Nuggets by Helen Graves

A recipe newsletter bringing BIG flavours to your everyday cooking. We also dive into fiction and food writing.

Excellent idea for a newsletter by one of my favourite recipe writers. And so far the flavour nuggets are 10/10.

- Catherine Phipps

Rising Up with Yasmin Khan

A newsletter about food, motherhood, culture and social justice — and how we find meaning in turbulent times.

Poor Man's Feast

By Elissa Altman

The James Beard Award-winning narrative journal about the intersection of sustenance, storytelling, and the creative spirit (and sometimes, a recipe).

Elisabeth Luard's Cookstory

Cookstory is a show-and-tell way of looking at how people cook at home all over the world. The images are based on my own watercolour sketches collected over a lifetime of travelling with my paintbox.

The Gut Makeover by Jeannette Hyde

News, views, reviews, recipes, trends and practical tips from latest gut science and my clinical experience

For really sensible advice on how to improve your gut health. I love Jeannette's approach.

- Catherine Phipps

Waffles

By Laura Goodman

Thoughts about food and family from your favourite snack enthusiast.

I love Laura. We bonded during media training (public speaking horror! She aced it.) years ago. Her writing always engages regardless of subject matter. There is a lot of dark humour. You should all look at her Carbs and Joy of Snacks books too.

- Catherine Phipps

Lickedspoon with Debora Robertson

By Debora Robertson 🦀

Welcome to my newsletter. This is where I share stories from my seaside village in the South West of France, my trips to the market, weekly recipes, and updates on our house renovation. Most of it’s free, and will always be free.

Cannot get enough of Deb's warm and humorous tales of adjusting to life in France. And her recipes are superb.

- Catherine Phipps

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.

Writes with wit and humour, wears his knowledge lightly - you don’t realise quite how much you are learning/absorbing. And the recipes are great.

- Catherine Phipps

Test. Taste. Repeat.

By Lulu

Test. Taste. Repeat. is a Substack from the recipe testers of Good Food’s test kitchen. GoodFood.com is the UK’s largest recipe archive, home to endless variations of every dish you can imagine; but here, we share our favourite take on recipes we love.

Thane’s Substack

By Thane Prince

Food, travel, maybe even a recipe once I figure out how this works. expect a lot of Malaga content, London restaurants, recipes from my kitchen and general rants. Dyslexic so expect exciting spelling.

Recipe Crumbs

By Jacqui

For seasonal recipes, meal ideas and great bakes. Plus hints tips and foodie news.

Lia’s Living Almanac

By Lia Leendertz

Join me to mark and celebrate the seasons as they change

I’ve loved Lia’s Almanacs ever since she published the first one with Unbound and her interactive substack is a joy, focussing as it does on the small things we notice throughout the year.

- Catherine Phipps

The Next Delicious Thing

By Jennifer Earle

Something delicious in London (or by post), every week.

If it's chocolate and Jennifer doesn't know about it, probably not worth knowing. Amazing insight plus lots of recommendations for bakers, chocolatiers, you name it. Invaluable.

- Catherine Phipps

This Plate Will Save Your Life

By TPWSYL

Rebellious nutrition and no frills recipes.

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

Hope's Kitchen

By Chloe Edwards

Spice merchant & believer in the hope giving properties of food & cooking. Zine 'Hope's Kitchen' goes out free to all paid subscribers.

Cheryl Queen of Markets

By Cheryl Queen of Markets

I write about food through the lens of where it comes from and how it gets to us — the farm, the market, the supply chain, history and the seasonal reality.

A lovely stroll through our farmers markets, as well as deep dives into the seasonal ingredients you can find there.

- Catherine Phipps

Economical with Fiction

By E.J. Barnes

Exploring fiction of the 1920s and 30s, the crossover of economics and fiction, stories of the Great Depression, women writers from historical novelist E.J. Barnes, author of Mr Keynes' Revolution

Home

By India

I'm a UK-based author and journalist. This is my journal x my Notes app - mostly books, food, interiors, clothes, shopping, home life, plus observations and enthusiasms.

A bear hug in newsletter form. India Knight is just infectiously generous and enthusiastic about everything she loves and she gives very good advice too. Worth every penny.

- Catherine Phipps

The Seaside Forager's Year

By Seaside Forager

Foraging and Cooking my way through the Church's Liturgical Year.

Fiona has been a presence in my kitchen for many years, sending all sorts of goodies from foraged foods and seaweed for me and the kids to try; if I ever ask them to guess a secret ingredient, they always start with seaweed! I am learning a lot from Fiona's posts - wonderful on the practicalities of foraging, but she also talks entertainingly around her subject, with knowledge and authority.

- Catherine Phipps

It'll Be Fun, They Said

By Jess Pan

Writer in London working at a tiny indie London bookshop + latest news from my book - Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: One Introvert's Year of Saying Yes

Love every word.

- Catherine Phipps

Field & Kitchen

By Karen HB

Trying to work my way through all the misinformation around food | Delicious photography | Eating seasonally