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Recommended by Karen Barnes

The UK's restaurant scene digested

News, views and tips from a lifetime's cooking, tasting and travelling from former Guardian wine columnist Fiona Beckett

For wine recommendations you can trust – and more. Fiona is a great writer and she's just left The Guardian after 14 years of writing for them so this is now the place to find her best stuff.

- Karen Barnes

Flour Power: by Felicity Spector

Telling stories of food and resistance in wartime Ukraine - and other scenes from an accidental baking life.

Notes on a Napkin

By Dan O'Regan

Notes on a Napkin is a candid, irreverent dive into the realities of restaurant life, mixing industry truths with cultural commentary and a restaurateur’s POV of the beautiful chaos behind the scenes.

For an insider's (beautifully written) glimpse of life running a restaurant, alongside acute, astute views on the hospitality industry, Dan Regan is your man. Always a great read.

- Karen Barnes

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.

Nicola's dedication to developing recipes that work, then passing on that skill, is unsurpassed.

- Karen Barnes

Auntie Bulgaria's Kitchen

By Claire Ruston

Veggie/vegan recipes and recipe recommendations from Guild of Food Writers award winner Claire Ruston. Fortnightly updates from my kitchen (and veg patch) in Bulgaria’s Balkan Mountains. Occasional donkey pictures.

AC & The Kitchen Bookshelf Cookbook Club

By Angela Clutton

Food writing from issues and stories to features and recipes; plus The Kitchen Bookshelf cookbook club

A cookbook book club online – it's wonderful

- Karen Barnes

Home

By India

My journal x my Notes app - mostly books, food, interiors, shopping, home life, plus observations and enthusiasms.

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.

So much wisdom about food, life and wellbeing. She's a wise woman, is Sue Quinn

- Karen Barnes

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.

One of the best writers I know. You will smile, you will learn – and you will broaden your music knowledge too.

- Karen Barnes

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