Substacks recommended by Karen Barnes

Recommended by Karen Barnes

Veggie/vegan recipes and recipe recommendations from Guild of Food Writers award winner Claire Ruston. Fortnightly updates from my kitchen (and veg patch) in Bulgaria’s Balkan Mountains. Occasional donkey pictures.

Salt and the Earth

By Hugo Harrison

Farm-centric writing and recipes from a small kitchen and garden. Empowering you to feel a deeper connection to your food, every time you cook

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

A cookbook book club online – it's wonderful

- Karen Barnes

Flour Power: by Felicity Spector

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

Smashed

By Andy Lynes

The UK's restaurant scene digested

Pen and Spoon

By Sue Quinn

Effortless recipes and dispatches from the front line of food by award-winning food writer and cook book author Sue Quinn. Latest book: Second Helpings: delicious dishes to transform your leftovers.

So much wisdom about food, life and wellbeing. She's a wise woman, is Sue Quinn

- Karen Barnes

Le Freak Chic

By Emily Jane Johnston

A judgment-free guide to curvy fashion and life lessons from your 6’2” internet big sister

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.

One of the best writers I know. You will smile, you will learn – and you will broaden your music knowledge too.

- Karen Barnes

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

For wine recommendations you can trust – and more. Fiona is a great writer and she's just left The Guardian after 14 years of writing for them so this is now the place to find her best stuff.

- Karen Barnes

The Gardening Mind by Jo Thompson

I’m a RHS Chelsea gold medallist and author sharing the simplest ways to garden. Join the community for weekly posts and chats, design guidance and gardening tips led by one of the UK's top garden designers.

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.

Life, fashion, food, gardening – it's all here

- Karen Barnes

Kitchen Projects

By Nicola Lamb

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.

Nicola's dedication to developing recipes that work, then passing on that skill, is unsurpassed.

- Karen Barnes

Home

By India

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

KB's Joyous Things

Recommended by Karen Barnes