This week at the hearth
Good food,
well spent.
Honest recipes from June's kitchen. Every recipe shows what it costs per serving, and every one is reviewed before it goes up.
June Hartwell is the pen name of Hearth & Penny's founder, who develops and cooks every Kitchen-tested recipe. June's family stories are written with AI assistance and checked by June for accuracy; names and places are changed.
The first recipes are cooking in June's kitchen now. Join the Sunday Letter to hear when they're up.
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We price every ingredient, so you know what dinner costs before you shop.
Reviewed before it's up
Nothing publishes until June has read it through and signed off.
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"Kitchen-tested" means June cooked it, not just wrote it.
Meet June
"I learned to cook in a kitchen where the grocery money lived in a coffee can. You learn fast what's worth spending on."
June Hartwell is the pen name of Hearth & Penny's founder, who develops and cooks every Kitchen-tested recipe. June's family stories are written with AI assistance and checked by June for accuracy; names and places are changed.
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Once a week: five dinners, a shopping list and what they'll cost, plus a note from June's kitchen.