Food is Stupid

Written and spoken tales on food, drink, culture and our strange shared humanity.

a newsletter on asian foodways and home cooking. subscribe now for recipes and techniques from my favorite cookbooks, conversations with amazing names in food, and plenty of delicious food illustrations—all delivered to your inbox weekly!

My latest finds in Chicago’s vibrant dining scene and highlights from my food-focused travels

Food stories. Mostly. Many with dead celebrity cameos.

Food recommendations of all kinds.

The secret memoirs of a former line cook. Sign up free for personal stories from my life as a chef, features and recipes with a Nordic feel.

It's about nothing, but also everything! From music to travel to obsessing about things to the point of monomania, take a few minutes to have fun with me. Do you need this newsletter? No. Do you need some laughs and little joy? YES. Sign up today!

pop culture • rom coms • swiping while middle-aged

An opinionated newsletter of unsolicited (but very good) recommendations.

The travel newsletter for food people. We point you to the best places to eat and drink in America's smaller cities, college towns, and vacation destinations and write stories about the folks who bring those spots to life.

food and cooking

A plant killer's chronicle of growing little trees in the big city, by Max Falkowitz.

Thai food in America and several long-considered but barely filtered thoughts on the subject (plus, of course, recipes)

Do you like cooking? I don't. Anyway, here's a bunch of words about something I cooked.

Funny writing from The American Bystander, "the world's best print humor magazine."

Michael Nagrant, the last Chicago Sun-Times food critic, and a contributor to the James Beard Award-Winning Alinea restaurant cookbook writes about life, cooking, food, and restaurants.

A thrice-weekly, IACP-nominated breaducational newsletter from Andrew Janjigian. "Pedantic crap!" — A (former) reader