Food is Stupid

Home cooked meals for you and your loved ones.

I'm Billy Zureikat aka "Tripping Billy". Welcome to my world as a Chicago popup chef, Muscular Dystrophy advocate and IL Ambassador for MDA.org, Pizza and sandwich maker, and miserable Chicago sports fan.

Start every week with fresh dinner inspiration.

Politics is cooked. Taste-testing America's politicians one horrific dish at a time.

A culinary journal by Peter Barrett, food writer, focused on imaginative approaches to maximizing flavor.

TOOLBOX is a weekly newsletter about cobbling together a home.

A newsletter about the business of eating from Food & Wine magazine's former Restaurant Editor.

Musings and thoughts about old sandwich recipes, condiments, and more.

An insider's tour of the tea world, by award winning journalist Max Falkowitz.

Occasional tales on food, drink, culture and animals.

a newsletter on third-culture asian home cooking. subscribe now for recipes, 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. Sometimes with dead celebrity cameos.

Food recommendations of all kinds.

Recipes, techniques and stories from a British restaurant cook living in Finland.

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

Where travel, food, and politics intersect, with the occasional SNAFU of personal shame

Former Cracked columnist, now a free agent. Survived the rise and fall of the internet since the 90s. I talk about society, social media, current affairs, and anything I can put a sardonic spin on.

Things I love — wine, food, spirits, travel, music — that you love, too.

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

A weekly roundup of words and phrases celebrating curiosity, language, and humor.

The travel newsletter for food people. Expert recommendations and city guides to the best places to eat and drink in America. Publishing every Friday.

Andrew Zimmern goes in-depth each week on food, his world travels, and stories you're never going to believe.

food and cooking

The five songs you need to hear each week, updated Tuesdays.

A serious eater's guide (for silly people) to Buenos Aires and beyond

Food essays, stories about working in a professional kitchen, and various meanderings of a chef without a kitchen.

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)

Rants and raves from an unserious food writer.

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

Step into our salad laboratory. We got your leafy greens, your grains, your veg, and protein. Plus: salady guests, salady books & recipes, recipes, recipes 🥗

Your field guide to food and drink in the Midwest

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

Mike Nagrant, the last and former Chicago Sun-Times food critic and contributor to the James Beard-Winning Alinea cookbook writes about culture, life, food, cooking, restaurants, and food media.

A twice-weekly, IACP-nominated breaducational newsletter from Andrew Janjigian. (Find new posts at newsletter.wordloaf.org.) "Pedantic crap!" — A (former) reader

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