Each full-length newsletter is a dispatch from a single location—it could be a city, a valley or a café—somewhere between Eastern Europe and Central Asia, often there will be a recipe too. If you like my books, you'll like Journeys Beyond Borders!
Writer about places. Author of Samarkand, Black Sea, Red Sands and Cold Kitchen. New book Green Mountains out now 🏔️ Dog person 🐶
Flanör is a blog focusing on urban culture, architecture, food & drink, and nightlife in Istanbul and Turkey's other major cities.
storytelling in the kitchen. curious essays are dispatched every other Thursday; Peels, a writer's almanac, comes out on the first Monday of each month
Food and everything connected, by James Beard shortlisted and multi award-winning author and photographer Mark Diacono, of Otter Farm, once of River Cottage.
On life (and food) in Italy, Iranian origins and being an immigrant woman. Might include recipes. 🍊A Substack 2024 Featured Publication.