From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy

Letters about alienation, modern life, the Left, books, and beautiful art - and also whatever is bothering me.

for people who love pastries, confections, breadstuffs... and New York City.

Free weekly essays about overlooked things that matter

In the kitchen with mischievous animals. Based in LA.

Crowd sourced recommendations from real buyers. Recovering Marketing CEO who is done with ads and product plays. No kick backs, just earnest recs. No advertising or affiliate links.

Cooking simple + delicious food for young kids and their exhausted parents.

Homemaking and unmaking

Essays and interviews on food, climate, and labor. Rooted in the Sonoran Desert. Sent on Fridays.

What Works has moved! Find the full Substack archive along with new (and older) work at whatworks.fyi

A weekly selection of my personal archives, written, photos, videos, menus, and other visual materials, on eating, cooking, and travel from the simplest to the grandest, everyone from local fishermen to the world’s most famous names. Hope you like it!

Thoughts on food (and recipes to help you eat more of it)

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.

A monthly newsletter on Proust, the reading life, and other beautiful woman things

Welcome to The Statement, a monthly newsletter about personal curiosities and life’s intimacies.

Paris news, stories, events, insights, and more by journalist and four-time author Lindsey Tramuta

Coucou! I'm a fat woman with big boobs (locking in that extra fat look, ha!), and anglophone living in Quebec City. This is where I chat about travel, food and culture – as well as living and travelling while fat.

Food, recipes and stories from Tasmania's Far South

Stopping by with a new recipe every week, with a focus on weeknight friendly, high-protein vegetarian & vegan meals made from whole foods

Inconstant essays, nostalgia, big feelings, writing thoughts, food, rage.

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.

Our rapidly sluggish decline to the end times, but with humor! and food!

Eat your veggies :) thoughts and recipes

a twice weekly newsletter to help you feel calm + empowered in your kitchen from a bestselling cookbook author 🧡 // tuesdays are lunch recipes! thursdays are a free-for-all!

Calling bullshit on America’s love affair with Perfect Mamas

✨ a cosy online space for curious readers ✨ from Sunday Times Bestselling author Emma Gannon. On books, work, wellbeing & creativity. 5th literature Substack globally. "One of Britain’s most prominent Substack writers" —The Times

A publication by A Growing Culture to grapple with the unanswered questions about the future of food.

Lively, varied, IACP Award-winning reports on Cocktails, Food, Travel and Culture, with a personal touch, from Robert Simonson, longtime cocktail writer for The New York Times and James Beard-nominated drinks writer.

a practice "to nurture new flows and at the same time guard against them" at the intersection of literature, illness, and the esoteric.

A newsletter for food writers. Come on in!

A spring cleaning of sorts: reflections, amateur analyses, tiny poetry, recommendations, writing prompts, guest essays, and other bits and bobs found along the way.

recipes from a legit Florida Woman.

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

essays, art, and inspiration from an American writer in Paris

writings and interviews on food, health, and environment

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

Link in Bio is a newsletter about working in social media.

A bi-weekly mix of food-related stories, recipes, cocktails, and travel, along with recommendations for movies and books from both me and my novelist wife, Ann Hood, and links to the best stories we've read online.

You're not crazy, the world is.

A critical space of political analysis, history and cultural anthropology. From Puerto Rico, with an eye toward the international.

a multifaceted newsletter, dipping its toes into writing, neurodivergence, film, ecology, history, art, activism, television, education, chronic illness, gender diversity, race, and politics. Nothing is off limits here.

Join me in exploring the unique food & cultures of Turkey, the Middle East & beyond from my home in Istanbul.

The latest from SOURCED research plus editorial insights

thoughts and feelings on sex, pop/culture, feminism, & radical politics.

Vittles is an online magazine based in the UK and India, publishing new food and culture writing.

Chipping away at the inscrutability of modern life, popular culture, and how we feel about both.

Research on visual culture, California, ghost towns, and the U.S. West. Includes ongoing research essays, reviews, and some diary-like dispatches sent from the road. Your paid subscription supports my work.

A newsletter and podcast about a thing you drink everyday. Interviews and articles about big ideas in coffee, the service industry, and collective action.

Four verticals edited by Sari Botton: MEMOIR MONDAY, collab w/ Granta, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion, The Walrus, Electric Lit, LitHub, Oldster; FIRST PERSON SINGULAR original essays; THE LIT LAB interviews + craft; GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, NYC stories.

Politics, women’s rights, foreign affairs, and law

About books, TV, movies, and higher etiquette. Also God sometimes. Also Taylor Swift.