Heard, chef!
I’m Audrey. I am @heardchefyeschef on Instagram. After a few years of posting my cooking to my Instagram stories on my personal account, I migrated my cooking to an archival format. Starting heardchefyeschef has been wonderful; cooking Instagram is a wholesome and inspiring place to be, and it’s fun to share my cooking with friends and family who I love to cook for (and are often the subjects of my cooking experiments). I believe cooking is not just about eating, but about feeding. I cook to feed and nourish myself and those I love. I cook to show myself and those I love care and indulge in some small amounts of joy. Every day can be another luxury.
Every week, I will send three recipes in a newsletter. One recipe is free, and the other two are behind a paywall. For $5 a month, you will get access to the two paid recipes in the weekly newsletters. This means that you will get access to a total of 12 to 15 recipes a month, all archived on this Substack. Right now, access to all three recipes is free! It’s also a bit irregular as I find a good publishing schedule for myself. All recipes use seasonal, local ingredients (to my home of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
I will also share stories of grocery shopping, dinner parties, place and product reviews, and general lore of my little life. There will be lots of photos.
Yes, chef!
Every new post will be sent to your inbox. I will also have a conversation channel where subscribers can share their own cooking and I will share updates of what I’m working on. All of this works very well in the Substack app.
Love you, chef!
I am not actually a chef. I am a 25-year-old home cook with a kitchen in the basement of a South Philadelphia brownstone in a century-old rowhome in South Philadelphia (I moved!)
My cooking practice started with horrendous fad diets during my sophomore year of college (say no to keto, folks!) and has waxed and waned into a daily ritual of care for myself. Cooking isn’t about eating, it’s about feeding: it is nourishing, creative, social, and calming. It is good for the body, the soul, and the souls that I love to cook for. In the worst of times, I am fortunate enough that I have always had food to help myself heal through cooking.
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