The New Family Table is a newsletter about feeding your family, however you define it.
Founded by Eater alum, cookbook author, and working parent Hillary Dixler Canavan, this weekly newsletter connects readers with the recipes, strategies, and hacks that will become favorites of adults and kids alike.
Our recipes have some things in common: They have no more than an hour of active cooking time (most are closer to 20-30 minutes), they are flexible enough to handle substitutions to suit your family’s palate, and they are craveable. We want our recipes to be on repeat in your home. We want even the busiest families to eat deliciously.
The New Family Table also brings tips and tricks to bring more ease to the labor of cooking for others, as well as writing and interviews around themes of parenting, found family, and building happy memories at the table.
Why subscribe?
Paid subscribers are at the heart of our mission to build a thriving independent food publication that produces original, thoroughly tested recipes, tackles the real-life challenges of cooking for others, and pays contributors competitively and promptly.
Paid subscribers get:
Two new recipes per month, plus access to the recipe archive
Access to Table Chat, where community members swap recipe ideas, mealtime inspiration, product recommendations, and more
Unpaid subscribers get:
Occasional recipes
All subscribers get:
A mix of essays, articles, interviews, link roundups, and more
To connect with other home cooks in the comments section
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Who’s writing?
Hillary Dixler Canavan made her name in food media as the longtime restaurant editor of Eater, where she led the annual Best New Restaurants list, launched the publication’s expansion into home-cooking content with Eater at Home, and authored Eater’s first cookbook, Eater: 100 Essential Restaurant Recipes from the Authority on Where to Eat and Why It Matters (Abrams, 2023). She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and 4-year-old daughter.
