Veteran restaurant critic Robert Sietsema writes about New York City dining, focusing on inexpensive eats, neighborhood food crawls, and restaurant openings. Readers get specific dish and venue recommendations along with historical and cultural context.

Vittles is a UK and India-based online food and culture magazine whose newsletter carries essays, panel discussions, columns and calls for pitches. Readers get critical, politically aware writing on food systems, labour, the food media industry and British food culture.

A Houston food critic's personal newsletter mixing restaurant reviews and revisits with food-focused travel dispatches, including recent trips to Japan. Readers get vivid, opinionated writing on specific dishes, places and local dining scenes.

Personal essays from writer and teacher Alice Dreger on aging, insomnia, caregiving for her mother, dietary restrictions and the craft of writing. The letters are reflective and literary, drawing on family history, food and books.