Pencil drawing of a covered market hall with a glass roof, produce crates on the left and a fish counter on ice on the right

Know your ingredient before you cook it.

One ingredient at a time. How to buy it, how not to ruin it, and what to pour with it.

In season now

Mussels. Dinner for four for the price of one scallop.

Farmed mussels grow on ropes, eat nothing anyone has to feed them, and filter the water they hang in. Nothing else at the counter is this easy on the ocean, and nothing else is this cheap.

PourMuscadet, or a dry cider. Around $14 to $22.
MackFoodie Mussels card

The ingredient cards

Every ingredient we’ve broken down, one card each.

How to buy it, how to cook it, what it wants beside it. Built for the fridge door, not the algorithm.

What to pour

A grape and a price band. Never a single bottle.

Thirteen grapes, sorted by what’s on your cutting board. We name the variety and the range, so it still holds next year when the label you liked has changed hands.

Free Seasonal Booklet

Know what’s good before it’s gone.

Four times a year we send a free seasonal booklet, your guide to what’s at its peak: how to buy it, how to cook it, and what to pour with it. Pencil-drawn, printable, and made for the fridge door.

Four booklets a year, nothing in between. Unsubscribe any time.

A pairing app is in the works. Booklet readers hear about it first.