Substacks recommended by Lisa McLean

Recommended by Lisa McLean

A guide to cooking from Substack. Cooking from a foodie stack each month, and recounting my adventures. Stuffed with tips and recipe recommendations. Newsletters on Sundays.

Shell is cooking her way through other writers Substacks

- Lisa McLean

Undergrowth

By Ian Winter

Digging down, hills to shore

Bake Experiments

By Shell Plant

Charming English Baking. Recipes that play with flavour and technique, with forays into food history and folklore. Do pull up a chair, join me for some tea and cake.

Memorie di Angelina

By Frank

One of the most popular Italian food blogs on the internet is now on Substack! Presenting Italian home cooking with a strong but definitely not exclusive focus on the traditional dishes of Rome—my former and future home—and points south.

Frank Fariello seems to know as much about Italian cooking as Marcella Hazan or perhaps even more.

- Lisa McLean

Spice Chronicles & Recipes

By Spice Chronicles by Lisa McLean

Recipes and stories steeped in spice, from my kitchen, clinic, and life

Just really good recipes

By Sheryl O'Connell

Cooking recipes inspired from kitchens near and far. Sharing the good stuff.

Taisty Bytes

By Mark Thomas

The adventures of a thirty-something finding his way around the kitchen. Better with pictures than words!

Weeknight Pasta from Italy

By Lolly Martyn

Motivating you from slow life Italy with simple, seasonal, no-stress pasta recipes (including GF options!) that Italians actually eat. Inspired by my Italian MIL, approved by my son.

The Downsizing Diva’s Substack

By Lizzie Wingfield

Fat foodie and demented cook-from-scratchatarian sharing recipes and stories about losing weight eating fabulous food. Also Food-Giant Slayer.

Cooks Without Borders

By Leslie Brenner

For adventurous, curious food-lovers seeking extra pizzazz.

Real Simple Food

By Sophia Real

A newsletter for those who want to make the most of the flavour bombs in our modern pantries (think Sake-poached pears, Strawberry and Sumac Tiramisu-ish or Prune and Chinese Five Spice Powder Sticky Toffee Pudding with Miso Butterscotch).

A Private Chef

By Will Cooper

Working as a private chef on a small family farm, deep in the countryside of rural England. I make vinegar, forage, preserve, smoke and ferment the ingredients around me and am also the guardian of two rather obstinate honeybee colonies.

The gentleman chef with a world of knowledge, and lovely way of sharing it in stories of his life on an organic farm in rural England.

- Lisa McLean

The Recovering Line Cook

By Wil Reidie

Recipes, techniques and stories from a British restaurant cook living in Finland.

Life's a Feast by Jamie Schler

By Jamie Schler of Life's a Feast

Life's a Feast with Jamie Schler

Bitter & Sweet

By Jo Candiano

Sicilian-Australian author & mysanthrope exploring my Sicilian traditions, music, mythology, family and a Sicilian house reno. Join me on this mad trip where storytelling, culture, myths, travel and food melt together like a cheese and anchovy toastie.

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.

Jeanette Winterson: Mind Over Matter

By jeanette winterson

Imagination. Ideas. Creativity. Conversation. This is the life of the Mind.

Notes from Emiko’s Kitchen

By Emiko Davies

Writing from Tuscany, Emiko shares recipes, insider travel tips and personal stories about her family life in Italy.

Simply Divina- My Tiny Tuscan Kitchen

By Judy Witts Francini

An American Cook in Tuscany. Becoming more Italian, one recipe at a time. Pull up a chair and join me at my Kitchen Table, the heart of the home.