At Salt & Lavender, it’s all about easy recipes using fresh ingredients, made from scratch.

The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and celebrates the diverse food cultures of the changing American South — and its site offers a wealth of resources, stories, and oral histories to explore.

Sweet, sour, salty, spicy, and umami: Marvellina explores a vast world of Southeast Asian cuisine in her Minnesota-by-way-of-Indonesia kitchen.

Melissa makes simple, classic food in the kitchen of her Minneapolis farmhouse, aka “The Fauxhouse.” She imbues her recipes and her homemaking advice with a cozy, comfortable minimalism.

At Let’s Taco Bout It, combine your love for food and literature. Each month, Charlotte and Mica feature a book and create recipes inspired by it. (It’s fitting for home cooks — no special equipment or hard-to-find ingredients here!)

Adrianna Adarme’s food is inspired by her Peruvian and Colombian ancestry, her corgi Amelia, and “copious amounts of rap music, sugar, butter and flour.”

Duck confit, anyone? Center of the Plate is the blog of D’Artagnan, a high-end purveyor of specialty foods in New Jersey. The site features recipes and stories about farm-to-table food culture.

“We find inspiration for photos and recipes all over the world. . . . Breathing the air on a different continent, our hands intertwined.” Susann and Yannic bring ideas home, then share beautifully styled vegetarian recipes from their Berlin kitchen. (In English and German.)

UK-based Callum loves to bake — sweet or savory, Eton mess or French tart, easy or hard. One look at his cakes, and you’ll be pulling out the flour and butter yourself.

Lidey Heuck is a recipe tester and social media manager for Ina Garden, and her lovely blog is chock full of accessible recipes and entertaining tips.

At lifestyle blog Party Hardy, Los Angeles-based blogger Courtney Hardy celebrates the many things in life that she’s passionate about: fashion, food, travel, crafts, beauty, and more.