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Pacific Northwest Experiences

By Linda Naylor

Musings, Recommendations and Recipes of the Beauty, Bounty and Food of the Pacific Northwest | Your Guides, Linda Naylor + Paul Caloca

Memorie di Angelina

By Frank

One of the internet's most popular Italian home cooking blogs is now on Substack!

By Odette

By Odette Lopez

A newsletter for the stylish history lover, the traveler, and the bookworm! A fun curated edit where art, jewelry, & travel unite.

Miss Oliva’s Substack

By Stories of Miss Oliva Harlequining through Life

This newsletter is about living in a scandalous light, fighting to not lose authenticity, growing, learning, and, above all, enjoying the journey I was meant to have.

The Painted Palazzo

By Mary Jane Cryan

Writer, journalist, historian, researcher, 60 year resident in Italy. Like my unique palazzo in central Italy, my substack includes a variety of subjects: lifestyle, expats, interviews, travelogues,guest posts. Come visit!

Mary Jane is an incredible source of history if you love Italy and want to go deeper.

- judy witts francini

My Beautiful Fortress in Italy

By Annette Joseph

I run custom retreats at our beautiful twelfth-century fortress in northern Tuscany. I am a cookbook author and stylist. Welcome to my life in Italy.

Annexes

Life is an immersive story – these are the annexes. Whimsical wisdoms on the world as I see it, currently as a Dutchie in Italy. Sometimes deep, sometimes shallow, almost always unserious.

Illuminare

By Alexandra Lawrence

Insightful glimmers on books, art exhibitions, history, and cultural happenings in Italy

My Improbable Journey - coincidences that dictated my path!

By Mary Thomas Tacconi

Reflections on my Improbable Journey from California to Italy, reflecting on the challenges, rewards, gains and losses of raising children in two distinct cultures and in two languages while forever juggling the two parts of who I was and who I am today.

A is for Articulate - Dana’s Substack

By Dana Curatolo

Curated vintage, travel tips, recipes & anecdotes

I am really enjoying Dana's lovely lists and images. She has inspired me to dig into my goodies which I keep stored away. Living in Italy, we have a small home so many of my treasures are not in my view. Maybe redo one of my grandmother's diamond rings?

- judy witts francini

Aiolina - Home in the Chianti Countryside

Our personal Substack to bring Italy and more specifically Siena, to your inbox. Local events so you can plan your trips better, places to go and see, where to dine and recipes.

Friends with Words

By Tanya Mozias

Learning languages in a divided world. Come and follow along with my journey to learn 12 languages in 12 months 💬 📚 🌎

Elizabeth.Ink

Beyond the postcard: The truth about living abroad.

Baur Studio

By Diana Strinati Baur

Garden, atelier, writing space, kitchen. European by choice. Flavored by nature, umami and wabi sabi. Steeped in love for the ordinary.

Andiamotrips’s - Campania Italy with Karen Phillips

Ciao. My name is Karen Phillips and I have been living in Naples Italy for over 30 years. I love to share my adventures about wine/food and travel in the Campania, Italy region.

MADONNA DEL PIATTO

By Letizia Mattiacci

Welcome to my kitchen in Rome where I write about Italian food, its culture and identity. I do believe that cooking is love. It's also color & magic.

The Recipe Graveyard

By Hannah

A decidedly uncool, nostalgic, and painfully optimistic perspective on all the ways we feed our loved ones. Focused primarily on communally and individually documented recipes post-1900 in the United States.

şemsa's food per se

By Şemsa Denizsel

stories & recipes. deeply rooted in Istanbul, now living in Thessaloniki, influenced and guided by seasonal produce, in love with olive oil.

Weeknight Pasta from Italy

By Lolly Martyn

Motivating you from slow life Italy with simple, seasonal, no-stress pasta recipes (including GF options!) that Italians actually eat. Inspired by my Italian MIL, approved by my son.

Due Spaghetti

Ciao! Welcome to Due Spaghetti, where we share our musings and photographs of the food, wine, and other marvels of Italy and recount our adventure of buying and renovating a centuries-old home in the heart of Tuscany.

Backstory Serial

By Mary L. Trump

How three friends came together to write a romance novel

Kent’s Substack

By Kent Peterson

I usually type about one page a day here on an old manual typewriter.

Beautiful Things: Letters from Abroad

By jodi {fiftybeautifulthings}

Letter writer. Travel lover. Lover of beautiful things.

musings by mika

By Mika

I share my real raw journey and provide a supportive community for those who are gingerly stepping into their next chapter

Real Simple Food

By Sophia Real

Recipes, tips and tricks to make the most of our increasingly eclectic pantries (think Sake-poached pears, Strawberry and Sumac Tiramisu-ish or Prune and Chinese Five Spice Powder Sticky Toffee Pudding with Miso Butterscotch).

Spaghetti ABC

By Flavia Giordano

Spaghetti ABC - flavors from Puglia, with all your senses

Liguria Letters

By Editor

With my “Liguria Letters” I aim to give you the best experience of the Italian Riviera and the inland, so feel welcome and join our community of Liguria lovers! To make your Liguria experience complete subscribe to my newsletter, it’s free!

Spatchcock

By Michael Procopio

Food stories. Mostly. Many with dead celebrity cameos.

I can never wait to get the latest post from Michael! I worked in hotels and restaurants in San Francisco, his writing takes me right back there!

- judy witts francini

Substack Writers at Work with Sarah Fay

For writers and creators who want real, meaningful growth on Substack ◻️ From the foremost Substack strategist Sarah Fay ◻️ Join thousands of paid subscribers ◻️ A top-3, bestselling, featured Substack globally

A Private Chef

By Will Cooper

I’m a private chef with a small family on their organic farm, set deep in rural England. I make vinegar, forage, preserve, smoke and ferment the ingredients around me and am the guardian of two rather obstinate honeybee colonies.

ChiantiCashmere’s Newsletter

News from a Cashmere Goat Farm in Chianti

Elisabeth Luard's Cookstory

Cookstory is a show-and-tell way of looking at how people cook at home all over the world. The images are based on my own watercolour sketches collected over a lifetime of travelling with my paintbox.

Tasting Life Twice

By Author Crystal King

Author Crystal King's myriad musings on food, history, Italy, social media, tech, books, and culture.

Honest Conversations with Georgette

By Georgette Jupe

A place for honest conversations and deeper connections through the eyes of an American woman living in Italy and juggling writer's block, motherhood, work and fostering community. Join me on this journey of authentic writing and open dialogue.

Our Italian Table

By Michele Becci

Our newsletter celebrating our favorite food, wine, and wanderings from our beloved Italy...and lots of recipes too. Pull up a seat at the table and stay awhile....

xoxoDorie Newsletter

By Dorie Greenspan

A newsletter for all of us who are crazy about food + curious about the world

Amuse-Bouche

By Hobbs Wells

Fashion + Poetry & Thoughts + Food

Taste of Liguria

By Enrica Monzani

A food writer worksite. Recipes, people, places, products. Whatever interesting, tasting and worth knowing about Liguria and its food heritage. Follow me in my wanderings around Liguria collecting ideas for my food writing projects.

Mirepoix Bitch

By Courtney

Art, Food , Observations, and Chatter from The Mirepoix Bitch

Laguna in Cucina

By Iris Loredana

Stories and e-guides for all who love Venice and food: Discover Venetian restaurants, seasonal recipes, markets, orchards, and Lagoon islands.

Bitter & Sweet

By Jo Candiano

Sicilian-Australian author, journalist & mysanthrope exploring my Sicilian traditions, music, mythology & family dramas. Join me on this mad trip where storytelling, culture, myths and food melt together like a cheese and anchovy toastie.

Loving her essays!

- judy witts francini

Letters from Rome

By Michelle Ciani Letters

Moments, musings and memoir: exploring place and belonging as I remember how to be Italian.

Dreaming of Cheese

By Jennifer Greco

Stories and news about French cheese, with added snippets about my life in France

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.

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

The Hyphen by Emma Gannon

✨ a cosy online space for curious readers ✨ from Sunday Times Bestselling author Emma Gannon. On books, work, wellbeing & creativity. 5th literature Substack globally. "One of Britain’s most prominent Substack writers" —The Times

Dr. Robin’s Covid Updates

By Robin Schoenthaler

Covid-19 Updates and Phiosophical Musings: A Continuation of Dr Robin's weekly fact-based-no-blame-no-rumors-all-science-all-the-time essays about Covid-19. Brought to you with grace, grit and humor since March 2020.

Substack Reads

Your guide to great writing, podcasts, and shows happening on Substack

Buona Domenica

By Domenica Marchetti

A lifetime of Italian cooking. Recipes and inspiration delivered every Sunday.