Substacks recommended by Andrea Strong

Recommended by Andrea Strong

Leslie Brenner (Home of Cooks Without Borders)

Essays, stories and recipes from two-time James Beard Award winner Leslie Brenner.

Hard Problems, Reconsidered

By Jeremy Shane

Examining new approaches to solving chronic and age-related disease using life insurance.

FOUND NY

Quality recommendations and actionable intel about New York City and surrounds, from the team that started Eater and Curbed.

Lock is one of the OGs of service journalism -- and he's got a great list of where to eat, shop, drink, and more in this amazing city of ours.

- Andrea Strong

The Park Slope Walk

By Nicole Ness

Today: What to do in Park Slope. Tomorrow: What to know about Park Slope.

The Point

By Rachel Lipson

A smart, thoughtful dispatch on elevated travel with points and miles. For savvy travelers who want to see the world without spending a fortune. A top 40 bestseller in travel 🏆

Rachel is the GOAT when it comes to helping you figure out what credit cards have the best points for your lifestyle. Love her!

- Andrea Strong

Hold My Glass...

By Anthony Giglio

Wine, Food, Spirits, Cocktails... and Side Gig SuperSalt

The Dinner Plan

By Maggie Hoffman

Start every week with fresh dinner inspiration.

Longer Tables with José Andrés

Every meal has the power to change the world.

Who doesn't love José!

- Andrea Strong

Little Nights

By little nights

Events, workshops, and retreats that make writing and art-making more accessible to new audiences.

Paris by Mouth

By Meg Zimbeck

The inside track from Paris by Mouth. Everything you need to know about where to eat in Paris.

Where to eat everything in Paris.

- Andrea Strong

Practicing

By Lynn Steger Strong

writing about writing, reading, teaching, running, practicing.

The Bittman Project

By Mark Bittman

Lots of food publications embrace the pleasurable and entertaining parts of food and ignore everything else; others focus on the serious issues and ignore the joy. The Bittman Project does both. (Plus, plenty of recipes.)

I mean, there's nothing like Bittman, plus Melissa McCart!

- Andrea Strong

Court Street Journal

A publication dedicated to exploring the vibrant people, places and culture of West Brooklyn.

Park Slope Pulse (by Park Slope Living)

By Park Slope Living

Get the pulse on Park Slope, Brooklyn (& beyond) including local news, events, and interviews with locals. Sharing the best things to see, dine and drink since 2017!

This is a great source of restaurant, shop, boutique and bar openings and interesting intimate stories about local businesses making Park Slope and the surrounding neighborhoods such a vibrant, exciting, and cultured community. I love it!

- Andrea Strong

Kareem Takes on the News

By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shares thoughts about sports, politics, and popular culture and how they define America.

Writing on the news in a way that I’ve never seen before. Great perspective — smart and iInsightful and Inviting.

- Andrea Strong

Feed Me

By Emily Sundberg

A daily newsletter about the spirit of enterprise.

DIASPORICAN: illyanna Maisonet is Puerto Rican in California

By illyanna Maisonet

illyanna Maisonet is the author of Diasporican: A Puerto Rican Cookbook. She's a 2023 James Beard Award Winner and it's her whole personality. Created this newsletter in 2020 to highlight recipes and unhinged rantings.

The Intentional Visibility Project

By Donna Cravotta

Where accomplished women over 50 gather their wisdom, remember their stories, and build intentional visibility. Join in for LIVE Real 50 over 50 interviews Wednesdays at noon ET.

On the House

By John McDonald

A weekly dispatch of good taste.

The Mix with Robert Simonson

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.

Literally Obsessed

By Sophie

A modern Life & Arts section for those with fewer pretensions and more open online shopping tabs. If your brain holds equal space for Anna Karenina and Love Island (or perhaps is weighted slightly towards the latter), you're in the right place.

Nick Mautone - Straight Up

Spirited Cooking and Cocktail recipes with behind-the-scenes stories & interviews, tall tales and entertaining tips.

Nick is the OG mixologist.

- Andrea Strong

xoxoDorie Newsletter

By Dorie Greenspan

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

I love Dorie and if you love to bake, or you love Paris, you need to subscribe. She is the OG.

- Andrea Strong

Starship Casual

By Jeff Tweedy

Jeff Tweedy shares songs, advice, general musings, and whatnot...

What Are We Having?

By Hillary Dixler Canavan

The weekly newsletter that helps busy people eat deliciously.

The Lo Times

By Ryan Sutton

Your cheat sheet to NYC's best restaurants. Subscribe for reviews, best of lists, breaking news, and personal recommendations from professional food critic Ryan Sutton.

Consumed

By Jane Black

The world of food through the eyes of two veteran journalists

Maître d' Diaries - The Substack

By Erica Cantley

The JDS Newsletter

By Joshua David Stein

Being a momentary core sample of my feelings

Joshua is such a great writer and always has something fun up his sleeve.

- Andrea Strong

Life Behind Bars

By Eileen O'Connor

Stories from 35 years (and counting) as a bartender in New York City— a prime location to view a constantly changing city, and the hilarity and heartbreak of... well, us.

Eileen is one of the best storytellers out there. Love her newsletter!

- Andrea Strong

Eater New York

By Melissa McCart

What we ate, heard, and loved in NYC restaurants this week

cara

I like to make things. Sometimes with words. Sometimes with sounds.

Katie Couric

Smart reporting, exclusive conversations, and candid commentary

Late Bloomers

By Laura Yee

You've put everyone first but now it's about you, whether it's cooking, health, next career or kids.

Laura Yee's baked goods are fantastic and she's a wonderful writer.

- Andrea Strong

French Fries and Martinis

By Jessica Carbone

What's cooking--or not--in the worlds of food media, history and culture

Amateur Gourmet

By Adam Roberts

I cook. Then I overthink it.

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

There's no better source for the examination of what exactly is going on in this country than Heather Cox Richardson. Love this newsletter. Hope you do too.

- Andrea Strong

WINE WITH WANDA

By Wine With Wanda

Wine writer, traveler, presenter, and storyteller.

Overthinking It

By Sara

Essays, guides, clickables, viewables, musings, and occasional Francophile finds from the overthinking mind of a travel and lifestyle journalist.

Sara Lieberman's fantastic guide to all things Paris, plus her travel secrets.

- Andrea Strong

What's Shove Got To Do With It?

By Abbe Aronson

I was once gifted a coffee mug in college that read, "If you can't eat it, smoke it, or fuck it, you might as well throw it away." Amen. Welcome to my dating + sex odyssey for Young Olds, AKA, people with readers. Lie back and get comfortable, Darlings...

Tip of the Tongue

By Liz Williams

Liz's explorations into food and drink and culture, who she is talking to, what she is cooking and eating, recipes, and her podcast guests.

Shifting the Food Narrative

By John Birdsall

Queer and other less orthodox stories of food.

Cooking with Dynamite

By The Dynamite Shop

From the founders of The Dynamite Shop and the authors of Dynamite Kids Cooking School, a newsletter that helps grown-ups manage mealtime with a heavy emphasis on getting the kids to cook, with dinner recipes, pro-tips, and musings from our kitchens.

The best newsletter for recipes to make with your kids and parenting insights for food and more! Love Sara-Kate and Dana!!!

- Andrea Strong

Andrew Zimmern's Spilled Milk

Andrew Zimmern goes in-depth each week on food, his world travels and stories you're never going to believe.

Insight Out

Inside Scoop, Out-of-the-Box Ideas: Sharp insights and actionable ideas to help brands rise to the top in the ever-evolving world of hospitality, food & beverage.

Hayley

This is a MomBod

A weekly newsletter from feminist streetwear company, This is a MomBod.

LAST CALL

By Brad Thomas Parsons

Spirited dispatches from James Beard Award-winning author Brad Thomas Parsons on bars and bar culture, drinks and spirits, restaurants and regional foodways, and popular culture.

Chopsticks & Marrow

By Joe DiStefano

Musings of the Culinary King of Queens Turned Hangry Publicist

Inside The Newsroom — The Newsletter For Journalists

By Daniel Levitt

Inside The Newsroom is home to the largest journalism jobs board, freelance board, calendar and media salaries database in the world.

The Strong Buzz

Recommended by Andrea Strong