This week’s digest is guest edited by Joanna Goddard, the founder and editor behind the influential lifestyle website Cup of Jo and writer of Big Salad on Substack.
Sorry for shameless plug but I have a newsletter that explores love, heartbreak and faith in personal essays from me, a Bangladeshi-Muslim journalist based in London. Would love some new eyes on my newsletter!
This post made me realise how much of Substack I’ve yet to explore. Margaret Atwood is here, for starters. I found a few new reads today, ever grateful for Substack! 🌟
Very cute.. Being part Italian means "excellent" FOOD and that word Food somehow doesn't describe the Passion which true aficionados in the pursuit of excellence (not perfection which does not exist in the land of Food).. of the partaking and breaking of bread with family and friends is actually part of LOVE.. familial.. :) I really like that very much. I mentioned somewhere that I when I was a "stay at home Mom" I had the JOY of learning how to actually cook; in part I did use the Joy of Cooking.. my father's Italian recipes and also as a trained Chemist understanding the Chemistry of Food .. then there is the training of the SMELL of the perfectly cooked "vegetable, meat" which is actually discerned as what is known in chemistry as OPTIMAL potency or efficacy.. too geeky? I spent FIVE YEARS no kidding, working on the WORLD's BEST CHEESECAKE Recipe. and I admit I used the basis of the World's Best Cheesecake's (there really is or used to be a World's Best Cheesecake brand name and back when I was young we would buy it locally)... once tasted... you knew for sure it was the World's best Cheesecake. I reverse engineered it and created it.. for real. :) anyway I LOVE YOUR post. gotta go and yes I am a coffee addict too. re Cup of Jo.. grind my own beans,, etc.. well someone has gotta do it. and that is a strange note: I have excellent smell and am great w/ names but I really don't think they are linked. WHAT A REALLY FUN SUBSTACK POST.. and maybe I will share the Cheesecake recipe.. I have several which I worked on,, but IT IS NOT AN EASY RECIPE.. it takes TWO DAYS to prepare properly. I have photos of it.. well i tis getting late here. Ciao !
Recommendation: Schmatta by me, Leonora Epstein. We explore design and interiors in a curious and chaotic manner
Sorry for shameless plug but I have a newsletter that explores love, heartbreak and faith in personal essays from me, a Bangladeshi-Muslim journalist based in London. Would love some new eyes on my newsletter!
I love reading Joanna here!
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This post made me realise how much of Substack I’ve yet to explore. Margaret Atwood is here, for starters. I found a few new reads today, ever grateful for Substack! 🌟
Great reads and Notes this week. I like Hunter and think she might be the missing pop culture newsletter on my list. Also interested in A La Carte.
Rihanna’s superpower is surely looking runway ready at all times.
Hello Joanna from Maine! How fun to see your name pop up and what a great round up.
Very cute.. Being part Italian means "excellent" FOOD and that word Food somehow doesn't describe the Passion which true aficionados in the pursuit of excellence (not perfection which does not exist in the land of Food).. of the partaking and breaking of bread with family and friends is actually part of LOVE.. familial.. :) I really like that very much. I mentioned somewhere that I when I was a "stay at home Mom" I had the JOY of learning how to actually cook; in part I did use the Joy of Cooking.. my father's Italian recipes and also as a trained Chemist understanding the Chemistry of Food .. then there is the training of the SMELL of the perfectly cooked "vegetable, meat" which is actually discerned as what is known in chemistry as OPTIMAL potency or efficacy.. too geeky? I spent FIVE YEARS no kidding, working on the WORLD's BEST CHEESECAKE Recipe. and I admit I used the basis of the World's Best Cheesecake's (there really is or used to be a World's Best Cheesecake brand name and back when I was young we would buy it locally)... once tasted... you knew for sure it was the World's best Cheesecake. I reverse engineered it and created it.. for real. :) anyway I LOVE YOUR post. gotta go and yes I am a coffee addict too. re Cup of Jo.. grind my own beans,, etc.. well someone has gotta do it. and that is a strange note: I have excellent smell and am great w/ names but I really don't think they are linked. WHAT A REALLY FUN SUBSTACK POST.. and maybe I will share the Cheesecake recipe.. I have several which I worked on,, but IT IS NOT AN EASY RECIPE.. it takes TWO DAYS to prepare properly. I have photos of it.. well i tis getting late here. Ciao !
good morning.
I initially read "Date Cinnamon Roll Cookies" (Up to Date) as an instruction, not a description. I may yet decide to treat it as such!
What's the name of Joanna's Substack?
Hi. I recommend Dad Explains by Andrew and No Idea What I’m Doing by Clint Edwards. Both are heartfelt contemporary and authentic.
I reviewed a Kissinger post-mortem monograph from the editors of Jacobin, which failed to dig into the tragedies he unleashed: https://open.substack.com/pub/stanleynolan/p/a-verdict-on-henry-kissingers-verdict?r=7d2b&utm_medium=ios
Transformation & Transcendence or Alchemy 3:16, by me.
Thanks, this was a fun selection of newsletters! 🤠