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Whether you're a time-strapped professional, an empty nester, feeding a houseful, or just making sure you actually eat something day after day, figuring out what’s for dinner is a heavy lift. The Dinner Plan—a podcast (available here on Spotify and Apple Podcasts) and weekly newsletter—is your resource for real-life cooking inspiration, whoever you are. You’ll find dinner ideas that always hit from seasoned cooks, new cookbook recommendations and excerpts, and the got-no-plan moves that transform whatever’s in your fridge into tonight’s meal. Subscribe to get full access to the newsletter and publication archives, and be sure to follow or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts so you don’t miss an episode. Source

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The Big Summer Giveaway for Home Cooks Is Here!

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By Maggie Hoffman Verified
| The Dinner Plan
The Dinner Plan offers cooking inspiration and advice that makes the dinnertime juggle easier. Every week, I talk to cookbook authors on the podcast (you’re following over there, right?) about what they actually eat at home and how they make getting dinner on the table night after night feel less overwhelming.
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Relaxed Summer Entertaining With Mélanie Masarin

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By Maggie Hoffman Verified
| The Dinner Plan
Mélanie Masarin, the author of Rivieraand founder of Ghia, thinks there’s too much fanfare around hosting in the US. “My friends know that I have an open door policy,” she says on this week’s podcast episode. The rule is: “If I’m home, you can come over…This is what life is all about to me.” She’ll pull anchovies and potato chips and olives from the pantry for a spur-of-the-moment aperitivo, but given the option, she’ll always prep snacks in advance.
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Good Advice: Vacation Cooking Tips and Tricks

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By Maggie Hoffman Verified
| The Dinner Plan
Maybe you’re going camping soon, or meeting family for a week at the beach. Maybe you’re packing up to catch your breath at a lake somewhere, or visiting some friends and planning big group meals. Wherever you find yourself this summer, you still have to eat, and this edition of Good Adviceis here to help you prepare. I checked in with 13 cooking pros to glean their very best tips for cooking on the road.
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King Arthur Baking’s Secrets for Better Pizza at Home

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By Maggie Hoffman Verified
| The Dinner Plan
A few jobs ago, in my Condé tower days, I spent a lot of time talking about cooking with David Tamarkin. What’s the key to a better version of this dish or that dish? What could encourage people to cook at home more? And so even though we haven’t worked together for years, we slip into a familiar pattern in this week’s podcast chat.
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Why we’re cooking outdoors this summer

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By Maggie Hoffman Verified
| The Dinner Plan
“We’ve had this sense that eating food outside is hamburgers, hot dogs, and if you’re camping, oatmeal packets. And there’s nothing wrong with any of that,” Emma Frisch, the author of Feast by Firelight, tells me. “But I wanted people to know that there are other options, and fresh food that you can make,” even if you’re limited to the supplies you can cram into a cooler.
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Easy Meal Prep, the Japanese Way

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By Maggie Hoffman Verified
| The Dinner Plan
I don’t need to tell you that summer is busy and that dinner right now needs to be easy, with as little cleanup as possible. But I do want to tell you about a cookbook I’m finding helpful: Japanese Comfort Cooking, the latest volume from chef Tadashi Ono and his writing partner Harris Salat. In this week’s podcast conversation, they reveal that they initially wanted the book to be called Raku-Raku, which they say is the Japanese equivalent of easy-peasy.
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The Best Cookbooks of 2026 (So Far)

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By Maggie Hoffman Verified
| The Dinner Plan
Confession: I can’t totally see my bookshelves, since they’re hiding behind the stacks of other books I absolutely have to keep around. The problem is, I interview a cookbook author (or two!) every week on The Dinner Plan podcast, and I’m very attached to all of their books. But when a friend asks me for a recommendation, I know they’re not looking for a list of all 33 cookbooks that I’ve featured here this year so far. They want—and you want—to know about a handful of favorites.
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Salads for Every Season With Alexandra Stacey of French Family Food

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By Maggie Hoffman Verified
| The Dinner Plan
“Not many people realize how important salads are to everyday French food,” Alexandra Stacey tells me in this week’s podcast conversation. Alexandra grew up eating salad every day, and she says that “salads were a way, for French kids, of understanding the geography of France. Each region has its salads, which showcase the best of each region.” You’ve probably seen the Salade Niçoise, and lots of variations.
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Tricks for Modern Mediterranean Cooking from Georgina Hayden

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By Maggie Hoffman Verified
| The Dinner Plan
You can skim through Georgina Hayden’s newest book for sun-splashed, easy dinner ideas, but it’s worth looking closer, because MEDesque is also packed with tips that’ll change your cooking. In her riff on spanakopita, for example, you’ll find “a method of wilting the spinach that my granny taught me,” Georgina says in this week’s podcast conversation. You don’t start by cooking the spinach in a pan or in the microwave—you simply salt it to get rid of the moisture.
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Good Advice: Summer Food Traditions to Start Right Now

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By Maggie Hoffman Verified
| The Dinner Plan
There are so many summer dinners and desserts that glimmer in my memory; if I blink I’m back in childhood, holding a dripping popsicle in the August sun. Some foods just taste like summer, and I don’t want to arrive in September without having a bite. Sometimes it’s the whole process that feels important: the ritual of the campfire s’mores, the moment when everyone sits outside to shuck ears of corn.
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