Substacks recommended by Maggie Hoffman

Recommended by Maggie Hoffman

Headnotes: Thoughts on Cookbook Design is dedicated to essays, interviews, and visual galleries exploring the design and production of cookbooks and other exceptional books on food and drink.

The Late Plate by Rosie Kellett

Delicious, affordable and nutritious recipes from my kitchen.

Budget-minded recipes for dinners you really want to eat.

- Maggie Hoffman

the eat goood newsletter

By Jenn Lueke

actionable and attainable healthy recipes, meal plans, meal prep guides, grocery lists, & more straight to your inbox every wednesday, friday, & sunday!

Your resource for easy, health-minded recipes and meal planning and prep advice.

- Maggie Hoffman

Leafhopper

By Max Falkowitz

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

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.

Joy of Cooking Newsletter

By Meg

Musings and recipes from the people's cookbook

This podcast is a must-listen for me, and not just because the hosts live in Portland. Fun chats about cooking projects, obsessions, and of course, the classic long-time family-run cookbook.

- 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.

xoxoDorie Newsletter

By Dorie Greenspan

A newsletter for all of us who are crazy about food + curious about the world

Dorie Greenspan is such a delight, and this newsletter is the place to recipes & slices of life from the cookbook author and baking maven, who splits her time between CT and Paris.

- Maggie Hoffman

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

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)

40 Ingredients Forever

By Ali Slagle

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

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

DEVOUR by Odette Williams

By Odette Williams DEVOUR

Simple Recipes. Good Times. An excuse to live a little hits your inbox every week.

Back to the Garden

By Bryan Rucker

vegetarian recipes from classic and forgotten cookbooks

Here for the deep dives into older cookbooks—this newsletter is about vegetarian cooking but you don't need to be veg to love it.

- 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

Home Food

By Kara Haupt

Everybody cooks!

Lina's cookbooks chronicles

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

Dive deep into cookbooks with Lina.

- Maggie Hoffman

Meghan Splawn

Your one-stop shop for budget grocery how-tos and copycat recipes from your favorite restaurants. Here you'll get real home kitchen tested dinner ideas as well as honest peaks at what a food editor feeding four spends each month.

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

The Best Bit

By Clare de Boer

Notes on appetite and recipes to delight it

Beautiful writing and recipes from Clare de Boer of Stissing House.

- Maggie Hoffman

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

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

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

Mind, Body, Spirit, FOOD

By Nicki Sizemore

Recipes, interviews and inspiration to bring more intention, presence and freedom into the kitchen and beyond. Weekly new exclusive recipes, all gluten-free (but you'd never know it).

Cooking is more than just going through the motions. I love how Nicki thinks about the practice of making dinner.

- Maggie Hoffman

The Kitchen Shrink

By Tamar Adler

Culinary advice and hosting advice from best-selling author and James Beard Award winner, Tamar Adler

I've loved Tamar Adler's writing forever. How lucky are we that this exists?!

- Maggie Hoffman

FARIDEH is the best

By Farideh Sadeghin

recipes. recs. guides. WEEKLY!

REILLY MEEHAN

By Chef Reilly-The Extra Ingredient

Private Chef, Content Creator, Shrimp Cocktail lover

One of my favorite private chefs to watch on social, now a cookbook author, too! Smart, fun recipes with a little twist.

- Maggie Hoffman

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

Food Processing

By carla lalli music

Recipes, stories, and time-tested recommendations from Carla's kitchen.

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

- Maggie Hoffman

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

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

Not From Concentrate

By Catherine Smart

A newsletter for food lovers with busy brains.

The Epestle

By Leela Punyaratabandhu

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

On Cooking

By Clare Langan

Clare Langan’s newsletter about seasonal recipes, kitchen tips, and the joy of everyday cooking.

Playing With Food

By Paris Starn

At Playing With Food, we savor some of daily life's most creative, sensory, and artful moments that come along with cooking and eating.

Whimsical and mostly sweet.

- Maggie Hoffman

EDIBLE LIVING by Sarah Copeland

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

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 inc. a recipe(s) for paid subscribers! thursdays are a free-for-all!

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."

A Nibble And A Glass Of Wine

Recipes, wine, and stories from the corner of King St, served bi-weekly by Jess Shadbolt and Annie Shi.

So excited for this newsletter from the folks at King.

- Maggie Hoffman

Salt + Spine

By Brian Hogan Stewart

Salt + Spine is the leading podcast on stories behind cookbooks, featuring in-depth interviews with cookbook authors. ‍Plus find featured recipes from favorite cookbooks, join our Cookbook Club, and more!

Cookbook lovers are sure to enjoy this one.

- 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.

Fabulous recipes from one of my favorite developers. Check out Zaynab's book, Third Culture Cooking, too!

- Maggie Hoffman

Food Time with Matt Rodbard

Restaurants, media, money, books, and anything good that crosses my desk in the world of TASTE and our podcast This Is TASTE.

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

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

This Shit Rocks

By Sara Tane

Things I'm loving and recipes I'm creating!

Really fun recipes and recs from a private chef.

- 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 Motherload

By Ryan Shepard

Professionally trained chef. Mom of two. Overstimulated dinner strategist. The Motherload is where I help you make delicious, realistic weeknight meals—with freezer shortcuts, smart technique, and zero judgment.

Real talk and meal recs.

- Maggie Hoffman

MouthBrain

By Zoë Komarin

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

A food newsletter with wonderful writing & real personality.

- Maggie Hoffman

Nickel & Dine

By Rebecca Firkser

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

I'm Legally Required to Feed You

By Noah Galuten

I am a chef, award-winning cookbook author and food writer. I am also a dad with two kids. This is a place for me explore the world of parenting and food; to examine how they intersect; and to post recipes of the food I make to feed my family.

Real-life recipes for families, created by a chef and cookbook author, plus great writing about the messiness involved in parenting. Highly recommend!

- Maggie Hoffman