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My name is Wil Reidie and welcome to my weekly newsletter, The Recovering Line Cook. This is my “one-man magazine” of food writing, memoir, and cooking insights learnt from my career as a restaurant chef. It currently has over 4,000 subscribers.
Who is Wil Reidie then?
I’m a restaurant cook who writes.
When I was 29, I quit my job in marketing, trained at London’s top culinary school, and have now cooked in some of Europe’s finest Michelin-starred kitchens in both London and Stockholm. I now live and cook in a city called Turku, Finland with my wife, two kids, and dog.
So what can I get from The Recovering Line Cook newsletter?
This isn’t your traditional, “recipe of the week” kind of food newsletter.
I don’t promise to send you another spin on tiramisu or add to your list of meatball recipes.
What I do promise is to send subscribers each week something different, fun and valuable. This could be a piece of memoir or life-writing, often revolving around food. Sometimes it’s a piece of food-writing on a cultural aspect of the food world.
And, yes, as someone who loves to teach, sometimes I’ll write about a technique or recipe that is of real personal importance to me learnt during my restaurant career.
And as for paid subscribers…
Starting in 2025 I am serialising my semi-experimental “narrative” cookbook: The Prep List. This is for paid subscribers only and is all about how to cook great food at home with a Nordic twist. You can read more about it here.
If you would like to read all my work and to support me, please upgrade your subscription today!
Thanks for being here!
Wil