Writing from the Table

Writing from the Table

About the Substack

Stories about food, memory, and place — and the things worth keeping. Midwest recipes from Indiana, Wisconsin, and Missouri — and the California table where new ones took root. Writer, home cook, baker, and lover of the garden.

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• New stories and recipes, delivered as they publish.

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• Support the research, reporting, writing, cooking, baking, and decoding.
• Digital collections: family recipes by state and story, plus a California wine history collection later this year.
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About Jennifer Ann Blair

Thirty years in advertising, crafting other people's stories. Now I tell my own — Midwest family recipes I'm still unpacking, and what almost got left behind. Raised in Huntington Beach, now in the Coachella Valley with my German Shepherd, Archie.