Substacks recommended by Rosie Birkett

Recommended by Rosie Birkett

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.

No Days Off

By Gina Restaurant

Restaurants aren’t just about food. This is what happens behind the pass; the decisions, the pressure, and the recipes that come out of it. Written by a husband-and-wife chef duo opening their first restaurant.

You Get In Love And Then

By Ella Risbridger

Sometimes I write things for no reason! Sometimes I write things I don’t want to sell to a stranger! Food, books, gossip, poems, home, art, domestic chaos, love. It's fun! You'll like it!

Smashed

By Andy Lynes

The UK's restaurant scene digested

Things Worth Knowing with Farrah Storr

By Farrah @Substack

A smart new corner of the internet to talk fashion, feelings and creativity with the former editor-in-chief of ELLE & Cosmopolitan. Plus join my invite-only community. We're nice...I promise.

Joie De Vivre

By Lisa Dawson

An edit by me, Lisa Dawson, of interior loves, vintage finds, easy recipes, travel, thoughts and things that make me happy. Author of Resourceful Living.

My personal Substack

Obsessively-curated recommendations and reflections, best served with coffee.

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

Fiona is a fantastic authority on food and wine, and I love her approachable, yet incredibly well informed writing

- Rosie Birkett

Tales from the Veg Patch by Kathy Slack

Award-winning cookbook author and rat race escapee invites you to step through the garden gate for seasonal (mostly-veggie) recipes, cookery classes and stories about growing food that will inspire, restore and reconnect you with nature.

Letters from Tuscany

By Giulia Scarpaleggia

Stories and recipes from my Tuscan kitchen | Seasonal, nourishing, vegetable-forward food by Tuscan food writer and cookbook author Giulia Scarpaleggia.

Every Shade of Grey

By Katherine Ormerod

Style, Beauty, Home, Gender Politics, Digital Culture & Parental Survivalism

Trying with Emma Barnett

Essays, stories and advice from the frontlines of life

The Hyphen by Emma Gannon

✨ a cosy online space for curious readers ✨ from Sunday Times Bestselling author Emma Gannon. Books, work, wellbeing & creativity. "One of Britain’s most prominent Substack writers" — The Times

The Dolce Vita Diaries

By Skye McAlpine

Delicious things to eat, wear, cook and do. A lifestyle scrapbook (of sorts) by Skye McAlpine.

DINNER TONIGHT

By Margie Nomura

One delicious, 30-minute dinner each week to take the decision out of busy weeknights - delivered every Sunday by chef and food writer Margie Nomura

Come For Supper by Alexandra Dudley

What to cook when people Come For Supper. Recipes. Recommendations. Kitchen Conversations.

Home

By India

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

The Good Home Cook

An award-winning cookbook author's recipes for simple, sophisticated food, plus some excellent recommendations to make life more fun.

A Day Well Spent

By Leyla Kazim

I will help you wake up to the world → break free from the systems that do not serve you → redirect your reclaimed energy towards realising (in every sense) the life you actually want ➡️ Here's your Free 10min System Reset audio guide 👇🏽📩🎧

Leyla is someone whose positive energy and words of wisdom I both enjoy and trust. I'm thrilled her delicious approach to living intentionally has found a space and audience here on Substack.

- Rosie Birkett

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."

Lia’s Living Almanac

By Lia Leendertz

Join me to mark and celebrate the seasons as they change

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.

Flavour Nuggets by Helen Graves

Flavour Nuggets is a recipe newsletter. Monthly themes explore ways to bring BIG flavours to your everyday cooking.

Studio B

By Bethany

A shopping directory of lovely things from my buyer's brain - sourcing, sharing and styling from small brands, amazing makers and my secret sources. A place to find everything I love, and buy it!

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.

The Boy Who Bakes

By Edd Kimber

All things baked. Recipes, bakery recommendations, behind the scenes and more

My Little French Life, by Manon Lagreve

By Manon Lagrève

Everyday nutritious French inspired food, brought to you by a busy French mum of two living in London with food as her love language.

To Vegetables, With Love

By Hetty Lui McKinnon

A vegetable life less ordinary, with Hetty Lui McKinnon

David Lebovitz Newsletter

A tasty mix of recipes, Paris food tips, personal stories, and more... Sign up and get my newsletter delivered right to your Inbox!

THE KUREISHI CHRONICLES

By Hanif Kureishi

Dispatches from my hospital bed. Writing on writing; sex and drugs and music, TV shows and writers I admire, my memories, among other matters.

The Department of Salad: Official Bulletin

By Emily Nunn

Not really "about” salad. But salad is the force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Recipes, yes—but mostly a way of paying attention.

Anna Eleri Hart

By Anna Hart

Twice weekly free to read posts on learning to dress, shopping finds and beauty reviews. Expect spelling mistakes and sarcasm.

The Next Delicious Thing

By Jennifer Earle

One delicious suggestion every Sunday from an International Chocolate & Croissant Judge. 💅🏻 London-centric.

The Anna Jones Newsletter

By Anna Jones

A weekly newsletter of brand new recipes and stories from best-selling cook Anna Jones

Nesting

By Dominique Afacan

Rarely going out out. Mostly staying in in.

Between Meals

By Max Brearley

Behind the scenes and between meals with food and drink journalist Max Brearley.

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

The Sentimental Wardrobe

By Olivia Purvis

A newsletter rooted in nostalgia but also sharing what’s good and special now- from style, life, music and all the heart in-between.

ROCKET & SQUASH | A Cook's Digest | by Ed Smith

A digest of good things: recipes for pragmatic, interesting and elegant (but 'real') home cooked food; 'Supplemental', my roundup of the best recipes in papers and on the web; and more!

Mina Holland

Bite-sized recs and reflections on food and culture

Mina is a fellow food writer and I'm always interested in what she has to say about restaurants, recipes and life.

- Rosie Birkett

Around The Table - By Uyen Luu

My Personal Journal

Matriarch Eats by Anastasia Miari

Connect with what truly matters in life. Join award winning author and journalist Anastasia Miari and learn to live a richer, happier and healthier existence, just like the 300+ grandmothers she has cooked with over the past decade.

The Dinner Party

By Rosie Mackean

How to cook like a chef and host like a food stylist. 15 minute dinners, weeknights, showstoppers and everything in between. From Rosie Mackean

CELIA by Sally Gurteen

East Kent home cook, using local, seasonal ingredients. Writing things hastily, but from the gut. Sharing recipes of sorts, and stories about love (and honey).

bits & bobs

By Florence Blair

recipes to roll with the seasons and other food bits & bobs

Flunder Wine World

By Luke Flunder

One man on a mission. To save you from average wine. Through recommendations. Insights. Conversations.

Keep Calm & Cook On

By Julia Turshen

a twice-a-week newsletter from a bestselling cookbook author to help you feel calm + empowered in (and maybe beyond?!) your kitchen 🧡

Flour Power: by Felicity Spector

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

Felicity's dispatches from Ukraine meld war journalism with her account of the ongoing determination of the Ukrainian people to protect their baking heritage and feed their communities. Brilliant, hopeful and deeply moving.

- Rosie Birkett

A Lot On Her Plate

Recommended by Rosie Birkett