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Omayah Atassi brings Syrian home cooking from her mother's kitchen in Homs to yours. 🇸🇾

Generational wisdom passed down verbally, documented through professional food photography.

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Omayah Atassi Preserves Syrian Heritage Through Her Mother's Recipes

Omayah Atassi shares her mother's Syrian recipes, the kind passed down verbally at grandmother's table in Homs. Her food photography makes family traditions accessible, bringing Syrian home cooking to...

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December 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM

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Audrey Le Goff proves French cooking's greatest barrier isn't technique, it's the myth about complexity. 🇫🇷

Twelve years of making authentic French cooking accessible to home cooks worldwide.

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Where French Home Cooking Meets Everyday Accessibility: Pardon Your French

From her Brittany roots to Canadian kitchens and back, Audrey Le Goff transforms regional French classics into weeknight possibilities - she's made authentic French cooking genuinely accessible.

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December 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM

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ChefTalk v1.0.0 (70) is live!

Your cookbook collection just learned to talk back

Point your camera at any cookbook page and transform it into voice-guided cooking experience.

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ChefTalk Beta v1.0.0 - Build 70

The best recipes live on handwritten cards and in well-loved cookbooks. Now they can talk back, answer questions, and guide you hands-free.

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December 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM

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Food bloggers are losing 80% of their traffic to AI "Frankenstein recipes" that mix incompatible techniques.

The promise of a recipe is simple: someone actually cooked it. AI can't replicate that.

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Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’

AI Mode is mangling recipes by merging instructions from multiple creators – and causing them huge dips in ad traffic

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December 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM

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Lauren Aloise transforms her Andalusian mother-in-law's recipes into weeknight victories. 🇪🇸

From Madrid's kitchen to yours, Spanish cooking that celebrates simplicity over complexity.

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Where Spanish Simplicity Meets Authentic Flavor

Lauren Aloise is proving that Spanish cooking's greatest strength lies in its beautiful simplicity. After twelve years cooking her Andalusian mother-in-law's traditional recipes, this trained chef tra...

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December 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM

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November 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM

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ChefTalk v1.0.0 (55) is live!

Sensory cooking: ChefTalk now tells you what to look, smell, and feel for.

Plus one-tap recipe import from browsers and smarter handling of complex recipes.

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ChefTalk Beta v1.0.0 - Build 55

ChefTalk's latest update adds sensory cooking cues, smarter recipe context, and one-tap recipe importing from any browser. Experience more natural voice-first cooking guidance.

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November 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM

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Giulia Scarpaleggia turns stale bread into beloved Tuscan comfort through cucina povera (peasant cooking) wisdom. 🇮🇹

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The Art of Making Do: Giulia Scarpaleggia's Love Letter to Tuscan Peasant Cooking

In 2009, Giulia founded Juls' Kitchen as a simple archive of family recipes and stories, writing in both Italian and English from her kitchen in Tuscany. What began as a personal collection grew into ...

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November 9, 2025 at 3:59 AM

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I'll be doing my 1st Substack live w/ @katemcdermott.bsky.social on Thursday - Oct 30 - 8 am Pacific/11 am Eastern/ 4 pm Europe.

I'd love for you to join us!

You'll get a look into our kitchens & how we REALLY work & we'll be answering your questions live!

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LIVE SOON: A Kitchen Chat with Kate McDermott & Jamie Schler

Starting Oct 30 at 11:00 AM EDT

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October 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM

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Samin Nosrat turns cooking into confidence with four foundational elements 🧂🧈🍋🔥

From Berkeley restaurant line cook to Netflix star - her teaching philosophy makes everyone feel capable in the kitchen.

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Mastering the Elements: Samin Nosrat's Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

Samin Nosrat transformed how millions of people understand cooking by distilling professional wisdom into four fundamental elements: salt, fat, acid, and heat.

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October 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM

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'Season to taste' sounds helpful until you realize you've never tasted the dish before.

How are you supposed to know when it's right?

New post on recipe instructions that skip the most important part.

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Why 'Season to Taste' Assumes You Already Know What It Should Taste Like

You're halfway through making chicken piccata for the first time. The recipe says "season to taste." You stand there, wooden spoon in hand, staring at the sauce. Season it to taste like what? You've n...

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October 23, 2025 at 3:59 AM

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Two Greedy Italians knew what they were doing with this orzotto - Antonio and Gennaro's pork, spinach, and pearl barley cooked risotto-style until every grain tells the story 🇮🇹

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Pearl barley with spinach and pork mince recipe

This is a filling pork and spinach orzotto - like a risotto, but with pearl barley instead of rice.

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October 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM

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Lily Hayes | Easy Family Recipes

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Why your Thanksgiving sides fail (and it's not your fault):

Most recipes are written by food bloggers who:
- Test once
- Use professional equipment
- Have culinary training
- Skip the "oops I forgot to thaw the butter" reality

Real home cooks need different recipes.

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October 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM

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The French call it 'mise en place'. We call it the difference between kitchen chaos and cooking confidence.

One simple habit done before the stove is even turned on.

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The One Habit That Makes Every Recipe Easier

Learn the simple preparation habit that experienced cooks use to make any recipe easier, faster, and less stressful, perfect for beginner cooks.

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October 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM

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Taco Tuesday dreams start with Sunday stew.

Chef John's beef birria is the kind of recipe that turns your kitchen into a Mission District taqueria 🌮

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Beef Birria

This beef birria is Chef John's recipe for a full-flavored meat stew featuring short ribs and chuck simmered with guajillo chiles and various spices.

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October 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM

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Karolina Klesta preserves Polish heritage through her Babcia's pierogi secrets and stew recipes.

Her cookbooks and community prove that authentic family traditions never go out of style.

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Preserving Poland's Culinary Soul, One Pierogi at a Time

https://polishfoodies.com/ Karolina Klesta is preserving something precious: the generational cooking wisdom that transforms Polish cuisine from recipes into living tradition. From her kitchen, this ...

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October 4, 2025 at 4:27 AM

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Featured spotlight: Tavola Mediterranea!

Farrell Monaco recreates 2,000-year-old recipes from archaeological evidence 🏛️⚱️

From Pompeii focaccia to honey-sweetened pear patina - culinary archaeology at its finest.

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When Ancient Rome Meets Your Modern Kitchen

Farrell Monaco gets her cooking inspiration from 2,000-year-old carbonized bread loaves excavated from the ruins of Pompeii.

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September 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM

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ChefTalk v1.0.0 (Build 45 Beta) is live!

Seamless transition between recipe steps, smart safety tips for beginners, and reliable automated timers with descriptive names.

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ChefTalk Beta v1.0.0 - Build 45

The best kitchen assistants know when to step in and when to step back. They anticipate your needs, keep things flowing smoothly, and never make you feel like you're fighting with tools when you shoul...

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September 26, 2025 at 5:36 AM

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Found the perfect recipe but worried that it's too complicated for you?

We think we can help - we help everyday home cooks master new recipes, one action at a time - so find that recipe and join us!

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Guided Cooking: One Action at a Time

In our previous article, "The Recipe Developer Dilemma," we explored why even well-written recipes can overwhelm home cooks. Recipe developers face an impossible challenge: translating dynamic cooking...

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September 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM

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Plot twist 🚫: The AI cooking app explaining why AI can't be trusted to write recipes - why it's unreliable and unsafe.

Behind every good recipe must be a human who actually cooked it. Multiple times.

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We Cannot Trust AI to Create Recipes

If you ask any chatbot today to generate a recipe, within less than a minute you'll have a list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions for preparing the dish. But can we trust this AI-generated ...

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September 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM

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Featured spotlight: The Greek Empire!

Dimitra Antoniadis builds her culinary kingdom on family secrets and authentic traditions 🏛️🫒🇬🇷

Preserving Greek heritage one recipe at a time.

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The Greek Empire: Where Family Secrets Build Culinary Kingdoms

Dimitra Antoniadis is building something remarkable: a culinary empire founded not on conquest, but on connection. she shares the authentic family recipes that transformed childhood summers in Crete i...

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September 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM

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ChefTalk Feed on 🦋 Bluesky

We handpick quality posts and food stories:
* Recipes that work (we read full posts)
* Food stories - historical, literary and cultural

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September 17, 2025 at 5:51 AM

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Recipe developers face a tough challenge: capturing dynamic cooking flow in written instructions.

Our post explores this challenge, and our attempt to bridge expert guidance with real-time cooking.

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The Recipe Developer Dilemma

Recipe developers face a tough challenge: how do you capture the real-time flow of cooking in written instructions? They know exactly how a dish should look, smell, and feel at each stage, but they mu...

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September 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM

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Featured spotlight: Nordic Food Living!

Kim Nielsen brings authentic Danish perspective to Scandinavian cooking ❄️🍞

And Recipes!

From sourdough chocolate rye buns to Stone Age bread made with just nuts, seeds, and eggs.

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