ChefTalk Team

Jeeca Uy of The Foodie Takes Flight smiling in an apron, holding up a pan-fried dumpling with chopsticks

7 Nov 2026 • 5 min read

Jeeca Uy's The Foodie Takes Flight: The Filipino Table, Rebuilt in Tofu

Filipino food is famously meat-heavy, and Jeeca Uy grew up on it. Since going vegan in 2015 she has rebuilt that table in tofu, from her mother's sweetened adobo to the tapa of her university's oldest diner, without losing what made each dish worth eating.

The word Sharing beside a ChefTalk card reading Maya sent you a recipe, with a Shakshuka photo and Add to my recipes

6 Nov 2026 • 3 min read

Sharing: Pass a Recipe Across the Table

Send a recipe or a whole cookbook from ChefTalk as one link. Your friend taps it and has their own copy, ready to cook, and anyone without the app still gets the full recipe on the web. Free for every cook.

Regi Pearce of Nuts & Twigs, a vegan Cuban food blogger, smiling outdoors in a tan jacket

4 Nov 2026 • 6 min read

Regi Pearce's Nuts & Twigs: The Cuban Table She Grew Up On, Made Vegan

Regi Pearce grew up in Miami on picadillo, black beans and something fried. Thirty years after going vegetarian on her honeymoon, she is cooking her Cuban family's table back, dish by dish, and telling you which ones were vegan all along.

The word Cookbooks over five ChefTalk cookbook covers: Baking, Date night, Holidays, Kids' favorites and Meal prep

3 Nov 2026 • 3 min read

Cookbooks: Your Saved Recipes, Sorted Your Way

ChefTalk now has Cookbooks. Sort the recipes you save into cookbooks you name yourself, like Weeknights, Baking or Date night, and find tonight's dinner in a couple of taps. Free for every cook, with no limits.

The words My Recipes, My Page beside a card of Maya's recipes at cheftalk.ai/@maya with three cookbook covers

1 Nov 2026 • 4 min read

My Recipes, My Page: Your Cookbooks at One Address

ChefTalk now gives every cook a page of their own, like cheftalk.ai/@maya, showing the cookbooks and recipes you choose. Anyone with the link can browse it in a browser, no app needed. Free for every cook.

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28 Oct 2026 • 3 min read

Is the Cook Behind That Recipe Real?

Three in four Americans say it matters whether what they read was made by a person or by AI, and more than half do not trust themselves to tell. We build AI for the kitchen, and every cook we have ever featured is a real person we checked. Here is why that now needs saying.

Shihoko Ura of Chopstick Chronicles smiling in her kitchen, wearing round glasses, against a wooden wall

23 Oct 2026 • 5 min read

Shihoko Ura's Chopstick Chronicles: Her Grandmother's Wakayama Kitchen, Rebuilt in Australia

Shihoko Ura learned to cook in her grandmother's kitchen in Wakayama, among ume trees and takana greens. In Australia none of it was on the shelf, so she learned to make it herself. Chopstick Chronicles is that kitchen, rebuilt one ingredient at a time.

A mother holding a toddler on one hip while running a blender one-handed beside the stove

20 Oct 2026 • 4 min read

Hands-Free Cooking Is an Accessibility Tool

More than one in four American adults lives with a disability, and the recipe still assumes two clean hands and a pair of eyes on the screen. Hands-free, voice-first cooking was built for the cooks that format leaves out. Like every good curb cut, it ends up helping everyone.

Ranji Thangiah of Tooting Mama smiling in a red coat with a camera in her hands, standing at a red door

12 Oct 2026 • 5 min read

Ranji Thangiah's Tooting Mama: The Sri Lankan Recipes Her Father Never Wrote Down

Ranji Thangiah's parents cooked Sri Lankan food by instinct and never wrote a recipe down. When her father died, his pork curry went with him. Tooting Mama is what she built instead, her family's food written down at last, and now a Saturday food walk through Sri Lankan Tooting.

A flat grey sign with a red ring around two recipe-card puzzle pieces whose shapes do not fit together

1 Oct 2026 • 4 min read

The Recipe That Failed You Was Never Cooked

Google's AI summaries stitch recipes together from several food blogs, and people click through to a source on just 1% of visits. So when the dish fails, there is no author in view to doubt, only yourself. The recipe that failed you may never have been cooked by anyone.

Carolyn Ekins of The 1940s Experiment smiling at home over a plate of wartime homity pie and sugar snap peas

30 Sep 2026 • 6 min read

Carolyn Ekins's 1940s Experiment: 244 Recipes From the Ration Book

Since 2009 Carolyn Ekins has been cooking her way through Britain's wartime ration book, living on it for months at a time and numbering every recipe as she goes. She is on number 244, and her father, who was a child during the war, still wants to know why anyone would eat it again.

Marissa Nicosia, food historian behind Cooking in the Archives, zesting citrus beside a stack of historic cookbooks

23 Sep 2026 • 5 min read

Marissa Nicosia's Cooking in the Archives: The Recipes You Have to Cook to Read

A Renaissance literature professor cooks handwritten recipes from 1600 to 1800 because there are questions a manuscript will not answer until you have done what it says with your hands. She also refuses to call the results authentic, which is what makes them worth reading.

A woman leaning over two pans on her stove, alone in her kitchen, herbs and aubergines in the foreground

18 Sep 2026 • 4 min read

Cooking Alone Is Not the Same as Cooking for One

In 2023 roughly one in four Americans ate every meal alone, up 53 percent in two decades. The hard part is not scaling the recipe down. It is that the whole craft of home cooking assumes somebody else is at the table.

A dark cover reading On the App Store, with the line ChefTalk is out of beta, free to download

14 Sep 2026 • 2 min read

ChefTalk Is on the App Store

After a long beta, ChefTalk is out. Say "Hey Chef" and it reads any recipe to you one step at a time, so you never touch the screen with wet hands again. Free on the App Store for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro.

Afia Amoako, Ghanaian food writer behind Eat with Afia, laughing in her kitchen while preparing greens

11 Sep 2026 • 5 min read

Afia Amoako's Eat with Afia: West African Food With the Sources Attached

Afia Amoako finished a PhD in epidemiology and turned the same habits on Ghanaian cooking. On Eat with Afia a dish arrives with its geography, its trade route and, when the history is contested, a list of the sources she read.