The Onion Papers are agglomerations and digressions from things to cook, eat, read and observe—a celebration of forms and imagination, flexing language—a recipe book and almanac in drafting, or a writer who cooks’ notebook. This newsletter is an invitation to approach cooking as a thought process and to map meals as landscapes.

I send curious essays every other Thursday. I also write a monthly writer’s almanac—Peels—which features foraging, bread, listening, reading, sky and kitchen updates. You can expect two-to-three emails per month from me.

Some examples from my newsletter include The Recipe as a Prescription: for hope, The Humble Dough, The Meals I Didn’t Cook, Three Tokens of Time, and In Praise of Eating in Bed.

I also like to write about places such as the woods and foraging, Vendée, Paris, Livorno or Various Ends of the World.