About Ruhlman’s Newsletter…
Welcome!
About me:
I’ve been writing about food, cooking, and the work of the professional chef for more than 30 years in dozens of books, such as The Soul of a Chef and Ruhlman’s Twenty, and countless articles for publications such as The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Conde Nast Traveler, Gourmet, and other publications. I’ve also written numerous books on non-cooking subjects, such as wooden boat building and inside a pediatric heart surgery unit. My latest book is called The Book of Cocktail Ratios: The Surprising Simplicity of Classic Cocktails and the forthcoming YA novel, A Taste of Somewhere Else. I’m a writer first, but I really love writing about food and the people who recognize its all-importance.
About the newsletter:
I publish Ruhlman’s Newsletter every other Saturday. I think of it kind of like my own personal magazine. I discuss food and recipes and cooking technique (the latter is most interesting to me), as well as books and movie recommendations, travel, new cocktails, and links we’ve been enjoying. My wive, the novelist Ann Hood, contributes new book recommendations each week. I guess it’s a compendium of all my greatest interests, what we’re loving from week to week.
I also hope it’s a place where people can have dialogues about what’s important to them, or to ask questions they’d like answers to (usually about food and cooking).
The newsletters are free. But I offer a paid subscription as well, for additional newsletters that go deeper into our travel (with food, drink, activity, and accommodation recommendations, as well as a letter I call Below 14th Street, about our perigrinations and hungers in Lower Manhattan.
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Should you become a paid subscriber?
My newsletter is reader-supported. Subscribing is the best way to support the work I do. If you simply want to support my work, or if the following extra benefits interest you, then please, become a paid subscriber!
As I continue to grow this newsletter, I’ll begin offering more content for paid subscribers: recipes, cocktails, and chats that will be for paid subscribers.
We travel, a lot. Subscribers will receive dispatches from the cities we explore with recommendations for dining and fun things to do there (in Portugal, in Italy, in Ireland, in Georgia, the Baltic States and beyond). I’ll also be sending out a newsletter, Below 14th Street, calling out great bar and restaurants we find in our New York City neighborhood.
Subscribers will also have direct access to me, and I’m happy to write about topics that subscribers would like me to write about. Community is really important to me.
If you are able to support my work, please know how grateful I am.
Cheers everyone!
—Michael
