Substacks recommended by John and Sally McKenna

Recommended by John and Sally McKenna

Make it Funky

By Caitlin Ruth

Weekly recipes, food memories and funky things from chef and author Caitlin Ruth.

Don't miss Caitlin's wonderful recipe and creative writing.

- John and Sally McKenna

Donal Skehan - Notes from a Home Kitchen

Notes from a Home Kitchen

Great tips and recipes from the irrepressible Donal Skehan.

- John and Sally McKenna

GORSE

By Ciara Ohartghaile

Baking, Cooking, North Coasting

Thought-provoking essays from baker Ciara OHartghaile way up in the North Coast of the North of Ireland.

- John and Sally McKenna

Well Read & Well Fed

By Kristin Jensen

On publishing, cookbooks and food writing

Everything you need to know about food writing, from Ireland's leading food publisher, Kristin Jensen

- John and Sally McKenna

Up There The Last

By Max

A real-time traditional food conservation project for the active remembering, revival and perpetuation of our disappearing food heritage

Max Jones is an upcoming Irish food journalist with a unique perspective, and a deep understanding of artisan food.

- John and Sally McKenna

On the Kitchen Porch

By Nancy Harmon Jenkins

Weekly banter from my kitchen porch: food, wine, people, places, Maine, the Mediterranean, the whole wide world.

Wise words from Nancy Harmon Jenkins

- John and Sally McKenna

Mark Diacono's Garden To Table

Food - from garden to table - and everything connected, by multi award-winning author and photographer Mark Diacono, of Otter Farm, once of River Cottage.

If you follow one Substack, make it Mark Diacono's Imperfect Umbrella.

- John and Sally McKenna

Eat This, Drink That, Live Well

By Fiona Beckett

News, views and tips from a lifetime's cooking, tasting and travelling from Guardian wine columnist Fiona Beckett

Lively and deeply informed Substack from Fiona Beckett

- John and Sally McKenna

Tripe + Drisheen

By JJ O'Donoghue

Slow news is good news! An independent, in-depth local journalism newsletter from Cork, direct to your email inbox. Subscribe to support us and help pay for our work.

Great News Reporting from Cork.

- John and Sally McKenna

Ómós Digest

An exploratory food newsletter from Ómós; an Irish restaurant and guesthouse in the making. We write about food, culture and community. We share insights, positing questions, and meeting people who are adding to the collective pot.

A digest of food in Ireland.

- John and Sally McKenna

Wordloaf

By Andrew Janjigian

A thrice-weekly, IACP-nominated breaducational newsletter from Andrew Janjigian. "Pedantic crap!" — A (former) reader

We love being a tester for Andrew Janjigian's forthcoming bread book.

- John and Sally McKenna

The Irish Stew

Recommended by John and Sally McKenna