Each newsletter is a dispatch from a single location—it could be a city or a hotel, a valley or a café—somewhere between Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Every issue will include reading recommendations, a unique recipe and underreported tales.
Writer about places. Author of Samarkand, Black Sea and Red Sands. New book Cold Kitchen out now (01/25 US, Bloomsbury) Somtimes on the radio or in newspapers. 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; annotated recipes are sent on Mondays, long-form essays are dispatched every other Thursday
Food - from garden to table - 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.