Substacks recommended by Jonathan Kauffman

Recommended by Jonathan Kauffman

A daily practice in fostering the good stuff

Tara Austen Weaver isn't just one of Seattle's best food writers. With her new newsletter, she's investigating how to engage with the world around us in ways that make life, not to mention the world, better.

- Jonathan Kauffman

Kate McDermott's Newsletter

"McDermott is one of the greats, as natural at the craft as M.F.K. Fisher, Marion Cunningham and Laurie Colwin." --Wendell Brock, James Beard Award Winning Writer

Western Washington's pie guru ("Art of the Pie") follows the Northwest seasons as closely as I do. Paying subscribers get access to her recipes, too.

- Jonathan Kauffman

Fire Escape Bonsai

By Max Falkowitz

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

Bonsai: such a specific topic, you might think, yet in Max Falkowitz's lovely brain it becomes a gateway to so much more

- Jonathan Kauffman

Donita Reason

By Angela Garbes

explicitly laid out like a fruitcake

If you, too, are fan of Angela Garbes' "Essential Labor" and "Like a Mother," you'll know that everything she writes (including this newsletter) is intimate, funny, and compelling.

- Jonathan Kauffman