Welcome to As We Eat Journal, a culinary journey

a multi-media culinary project exploring how food connects, defines, and inspires

We’re excited to announce that we have rebranded and moved our newsletter to a new platform. The Heritage Cookbook Project has been gently folded into As We Eat, a multimedia project about food and our human experience.

And we would like to welcome you to the As We Eat Journal, a written companion to the As We Eat podcast and the coming-soon As We Eat, Going Places Youtube channel. 

Each week Eric, Kim, and Leigh will serve up a smorgasbord of stories, photos, recipes, culinary journeys, podcasts, or videos (or some delicious combination of two or more) as we explore how food connects, defines, and inspires us. 

You’ve been added to our completely free Tuesday Journal subscription option. The Tuesday Journal features podcast episodes, short stories about art and food, food history, and/or random musings on what inspires us from recipes to recent reads. 

If you would like to get even more tasty stuff, we have a paid subscription option that includes:

Bonus Friday Journal email

Every Friday morning, we’ll send you an email that includes things like photo essays and special recipes from Eric and Leigh’s culinary journey through the States; Recipe Box Roulette* essays accompanied by the original recipe; exclusive As We Eat podcast episodes and/or As We Eat, Going Places videos.

Join the community

Let your voice be heard. Comment on AWE issues and be part of special conversation threads. Ask us questions about our travels, our research, or what our favorite recipes are. Share your time honored - or brand new favorite - recipes with the community. Suggest places along our journey or new topics to explore.

Other goodies

Be the first to hear about events, new merchandise, AWEsome giveaways, special discounts, and so, so much more.

The satisfaction of being an integral part of our culinary journey 

Your decision to forego the purchase of the Talking Remote Meat Thermometer or the Automatic Mini Donut Factory to support As We Eat is a huge part of our ability to continue to create more delectable content that connects and inspires.   

At the Producer level

You’ll help us plan our seasons by voting on topics to be presented, locations to be visited, recipes to be made and the opportunity to be a guest on an episode of the podcast. You will also get a shout out at the end of each podcast episode and listed in the credits on the videos. Plus all of the other bonuses of the paid subscription.

Welcome, and enjoy!

* Leigh is on a never-ending search for forgotten or abandoned recipe boxes. In an attempt to celebrate them, she created a “game” called Recipe Box Roulette. One recipe is drawn at random, made, researched, and then shared in a personal essay.