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Curated food blogs, cooking content, and culinary creators we love and recommend to our community.

Carolyn Ekins of The 1940s Experiment smiling at home over a plate of wartime homity pie and sugar snap peas

30 Sep 2026 • 6 min read

Carolyn Ekins's 1940s Experiment: 244 Recipes From the Ration Book

Since 2009 Carolyn Ekins has been cooking her way through Britain's wartime ration book, living on it for months at a time and numbering every recipe as she goes. She is on number 244, and her father, who was a child during the war, still wants to know why anyone would eat it again.

Marissa Nicosia, food historian behind Cooking in the Archives, zesting citrus beside a stack of historic cookbooks

23 Sep 2026 • 5 min read

Marissa Nicosia's Cooking in the Archives: The Recipes You Have to Cook to Read

A Renaissance literature professor cooks handwritten recipes from 1600 to 1800 because there are questions a manuscript will not answer until you have done what it says with your hands. She also refuses to call the results authentic, which is what makes them worth reading.

Afia Amoako, Ghanaian food writer behind Eat with Afia, laughing in her kitchen while preparing greens

11 Sep 2026 • 5 min read

Afia Amoako's Eat with Afia: West African Food With the Sources Attached

Afia Amoako finished a PhD in epidemiology and turned the same habits on Ghanaian cooking. On Eat with Afia a dish arrives with its geography, its trade route and, when the history is contested, a list of the sources she read.

Jenny Hammerton of Silver Screen Suppers holding Pola Negri's banana trifle at High Barnet Tube station in London

2 Sep 2026 • 5 min read

Jenny Hammerton's Silver Screen Suppers: The Recipe Archive Hollywood Never Kept

Jenny Hammerton bought a film star recipe book in a collector's shop in 2006 and started cooking. Twenty years and more than 8,000 recipes later, Silver Screen Suppers is a working archive of Hollywood's own home cooking that no library thought to keep.

Jun Belen, Filipino food blogger behind Junblog, photographing a home-cooked Filipino dish in his California kitchen

11 Jul 2026 • 5 min read

Jun Belen's Junblog: A Filipino Alphabet, Written from Memory

Jun Belen couldn't cook until he left Manila. Phoning his mother from California, he built Junblog into a four-time Saveur finalist and one of the most personal English-language records of Filipino home cooking, an alphabet of a whole cuisine written from memory.

Melissa Thompson's Fowl Mouths: Jamaican Cooking as a History Lesson

2 Jun 2026 • 4 min read

Melissa Thompson's Fowl Mouths: Jamaican Cooking as a History Lesson

Melissa Thompson learned her Jamaican father's food in Dorset, far from the island, then spent years chasing down its meaning. Her cookbook Motherland and her writing treat every recipe as a piece of history.

Suzanne Nuyen's Bun Bo Bae: The Vietnamese Home Cooking That Never Made It to the Restaurant Menu

27 May 2026 • 5 min read

Suzanne Nuyen's Bun Bo Bae: The Vietnamese Home Cooking That Never Made It to the Restaurant Menu

NPR journalist Suzanne Nuyen built Bun Bo Bae to write down the everyday Vietnamese dishes that never made it to restaurant menus. Her mother's bún bò Huế, her father's weeknight tomato-pork sauce, and an oral tradition turned into a written archive.

Annick Mégie's Tchakayiti: Haitian Cuisine, Recorded from the Source

16 May 2026 • 5 min read

Annick Mégie's Tchakayiti: Haitian Cuisine, Recorded from the Source

Annick Mégie writes Tchakayiti from Haiti. A Saveur finalist for Best Food Culture Blog, she has spent over a decade documenting Haitian cuisine from her mother's office desk in Port-au-Prince.

Maria Kalenska's My Odessa Cuisine: A Black Sea City's Recipes, Held in Both Hands

1 May 2026 • 5 min read

Maria Kalenska's My Odessa Cuisine: A Black Sea City's Recipes, Held in Both Hands

Maria Kalenska, a fourth-generation Odesan, documents the food of a Black Sea port city shaped by Ukrainian, Jewish, Greek, Turkish, and Armenian hands. Her cookbook Cuisines of Odesa (Weldon Owen, Feb 2026) gathers recipes from Odesans scattered around the world.

Polina Chesnakova, cookbook author and creator of Chesnok, a blog celebrating Georgian and Eastern European home cooking from the Soviet diaspora

11 Apr 2026 • 6 min read

Polina Chesnakova's Chesnok: Where Every Clove Tells a Diaspora Story

Polina Chesnakova built Chesnok to preserve her family's Georgian and Eastern European recipes. Born in Ukraine to parents from Tbilisi, she maps a diaspora kitchen across three cookbooks and a decade of writing.

Ozoz Sokoh's Kitchen Butterfly: The Geologist Who Mapped Nigerian Cuisine

31 Mar 2026 • 6 min read

Ozoz Sokoh's Kitchen Butterfly: The Geologist Who Mapped Nigerian Cuisine

Ozoz Sokoh started Kitchen Butterfly in 2009 as a Nigerian geologist cooking from homesickness. Sixteen years later, it's the most rigorous archive of Nigerian culinary history in English.

Azita Mehran's Turmeric & Saffron blog featuring authentic Persian home cooking recipes including kookoo sabzi, fesenjoon, and Nowruz celebrations

15 Mar 2026 • 4 min read

Azita Mehran's Turmeric & Saffron: A New Yorker's 17-Year Letter to Her Mother's Kitchen

Azita Mehran started Turmeric & Saffron as a memorial to her mother. 17 years and 170+ recipes later, it's one of the most authentic archives of Persian home cooking online. This Nowruz, explore the tradition.

Heifa Odeh's Fufu's Kitchen: Palestine on Every Plate

4 Mar 2026 • 5 min read

Heifa Odeh's Fufu's Kitchen: Palestine on Every Plate

Heifa Odeh insisted on writing a Palestinian cookbook, not a Middle Eastern one. At Fufu's Kitchen, the Saveur award-winning blogger preserves her family's recipes with the same conviction: this food deserves its own name.

Maryam Jillani's Pakistan Eats: Building the Archive a Nation's Cuisine Deserved

26 Feb 2026 • 4 min read

Maryam Jillani's Pakistan Eats: Building the Archive a Nation's Cuisine Deserved

Maryam Jillani built Pakistan Eats to document a cuisine the internet overlooked. Award-winning blog, Library of Congress archive, and a cookbook named best of 2025. This Ramadan, explore the recipes.

Salima Benkhalti's Salima's Kitchen: Two Homelands, One Table

21 Feb 2026 • 4 min read

Salima Benkhalti's Salima's Kitchen: Two Homelands, One Table

Salima Benkhalti grew up between two kitchens: her Puerto Rican mother's sofrito pots and her Moroccan father's saffron tagines. At Salima's Kitchen, she honors both traditions with 100+ tested recipes.