Welcome to Let’s Get Lost, Home of The Lost Supper Club
A place to connect with people through food
Welcome to the Let’s Get Lost newsletter and the BRAND NEW Lost Supper Club, launching in January 2025. If you love to connect with people through food, and are inspired by new places and experiences, you’ll find some like-minded friends here.
My husband and I are full time travelers who live and work in a 5th wheel RV.
The Let’s Get Lost Newsletter is a way to take you with us as we discover new places, new people, and new recipes.
The Lost Supper Club is about linking arms with local friends and neighbors and new friends from all over the world to inspire connection, community, and insight.
Free subscribers receive the Let’s Get Lost Newsletter
The Let’s Get Lost newsletter comes out twice a month on Saturday mornings.
Most issues include:
Stories and photos from the road.
Several new recipes that you won’t find on either of my recipe websites.
Useful tips and tricks from cooking in a tiny 4x7 food kitchen on wheels.
Recommendations for things to read, watch, and listen to plus tools, resources, and ingredients.
Paid subscribers make up The Lost Supper Club
If I could, I would gather all of us together for dinner. We’d sit around a giant table and have so much fun. Since that’s impossible for obvious reasons, The Lost Supper Club is the next best thing.
The Lost Supper Club is a community of people who love to learn about the world through the people who live there and the recipes they cook.
As a supper club member, you’ll find inspiration from other cooks and bakers from across the country. Food is an enormous part of our individual and collective history and one way to learn about people is to step into their kitchens. That’s what we do here.
The Lost Supper Club is for everyone who:
is craving connections with people outside their current social circle and also wants to deepen the connections with their own community of friends and neighbors
is curious about how other people live, what they think, and what their stories are
loves the idea of learning about the world through the people who live there and the recipes they cook.
Lost Supper Club emails will also arrive in your in-box on Saturday mornings. As a member, you will receive:
Shareable recipes, tips, and ideas from other supper club members for everyone who feels inspired to start their own supper club with friends and neighbors in their community. Think casual, authentic entertaining. Even though I think she’s a badass, I am not trying to be Martha Stewart. I just want to eat good food in the company of people I genuinely like. You too?
Go inside the kitchens of Supper Club members with recipes, interviews, photos, and videos that showcase food that a particular region is known for, made by the people who live there.
Opportunities to connect with other Supper Club members from across the U.S. and the world (Let’s Get Lost is currently read across all 50 states and 57 countries!)
Insider information and recommendations for restaurants, destinations, and fun things to do and see as we travel around the county.
A 20% discount on the Let’s Get Lost Cookbook, Volume 1, coming out in January! (More information coming soon!)
Supper club members will support and shape the 2025 cookbook project! (More about that below!)
Full access to the entire recipe archive. I published over 120 new and exclusive recipes here in 2024! Most of the recipes published throughout the current calendar year are available to everyone, but access to the previous year’s recipes will only be available to paid subscribers.
The supper club is for paid subscribers BUT for the entire month of January, it will be free for every subscriber. If you love it there, I hope you’ll stay.
If you are already sure you’ll love it there (you will! you will!), I invite you to upgrade to a paid subscription and lock in 2024 pricing.
The Let’s Get Lost newsletter and the Lost Supper Club are simply not possible without paid contributions. In order to continue publishing the free newsletter and launch the Supper Club, subscription prices in 2025 will increase to $55 a year and $6/ month.
If you are already an annual paid subscriber, or you become one by the end of this year, you are locked in at the 2024 price ($50/year) forever. No matter what, your subscription price will not increase unless you cancel your subscription.
I do not want cost to stand in the way of anyone joining the Lost Supper Club. So…
If this is something you really want to be a part of but can’t afford it, all you need to do is send an email to me and I will extend a gift subscription, no questions asked. rebecca@rebeccablackwell.com
If you are in a position where you would like to sponsor someone else’s Supper Club membership, you can purchase a gift subscription for them OR send an email to me to donate an anonymous gift subscription to someone who has requested it. rebecca@rebeccablackwell.com
What is the Let’s Get Lost cookbook project?
After launching the Let’s Get Lost Newsletter in February of 2024, I am so excited to announce the first Let’s Get Lost Cookbook which includes over 140 recipes. The book will be available in print and digital formats in January of 2025.
The 2025 cookbook project will be shaped and influenced by the stories and recipes from Supper Club members that I meet on the road as we travel around the country.
Come along with me as I travel to all of these places and learn how to cook the kinds of foods that offer a peak into the regional geography and culture.
You can view our 2025 travel schedule here. If you live near any of the places we will visit and would like to connect, please let me know! (rebecca@rebeccablackwell.com)
About Rebecca
I am a recipe developer, writer, and food photographer. While I have cooked professionally, mostly I am a home cook and baker who writes for other home cooks and bakers. Also, my husband and I are full time travelers who live in a 5th wheel RV, so I write about life on the road.
I have been cooking and baking professionally and just for the sheer pleasure of it for nearly 30 years, and writing and publishing recipes since 2013. But, since launching the Let’s Get Lost newsletter in early 2024, I’ve connected with a quickly growing community of people who may be scattered all over the world but who’s kitchens we would all feel welcome in.
The interaction, kindness and support I have discovered here remind me weekly that there are fascinating, thoughtful, good people everywhere. I’m grateful to have met them and I’d like to introduce you because I have a good feeling that you’re one of them.
Unlike my two recipe websites (ofbatteranddough.com and alittleandalot.com), the Let’s Get Lost newsletter and the Lost Supper Club allow me to write and interact directly with that generous community. It’s a much more intimate exchange and the only rules are the ones we make up as we go along. Also, no ads. 👏
Above all else, I hope you find beauty and inspiration inside every issue of the Let’s Get Lost Newsletter and, if you choose to join, in the Lost Supper Club.
I am also a regular contributor to the FoodStack Library, an incredible resource for food writers and recipe creators on Substack and a treasure trove for everyone who loves food and wants to learn more about the people behind the recipes.
Why did I create the Lost Supper Club?
I created the Supper Club for several reasons, including:
I wanted to go deeper into the places we travel and provide a place for like-minded people to connect, support, and inspire each other.
I wanted to create a tangible, lasting, solid memory of these digital and in person interactions in the form of cookbooks that are a representation of a 12 month journey we went on together.
I wanted to connect with remarkable cooks, bakers, and food writers from all over the country and introduce them to the members of the Let’s Get Lost community.
I wanted what I do here - writing the Let’s Get Lost newsletter - to be more interactive than what can be achieved by writing alone.
I hope you will join us!
Words from a few generous subscribers…
"Gorgeous photography. Excited to follow along on your journey with food, travel and friendship. Thank you for sharing!" - Shelly
"This is a delightful site with great stories, recipes from a fabulous lady!! So proud to subscribe." - Carol
"Rebecca's newsletter is filled with heart. In the stories she writes, the recipes she shares and the feelings she evokes. It's one of my favorites.” - Sandra
A few thoughts about paid subscriptions
Recipe writing, writing in general, is a strange occupation in that it’s a job - it’s my job, it’s how I pay the bills - and yet, we give away most of what we create for free. Most of my “customers” will never pay for what I create. Most of the hours I spend at my job are hours spent creating free content.
I do not know that this system exists in other industries? Regardless, that’s how it is. And I do understand it. I also cannot and do not pay for every piece of content I consume. If everything everyone wrote was behind a paywall, I don’t think that would serve anyone - not the writers or the consumers.
Frankly, I don’t know what the answer is here. On my two recipe blogs, readers pay for recipes by putting up with annoying ads. I agree to include annoying ads on my sites so that I get paid for my work. This is an imperfect system. Readers don’t love the ads and neither do I.
Substack is different because it gives readers the opportunity to pay for content with money rather than paying for it by putting up with ads. It also allows writers to write ONLY FOR THEIR AUDIENCE, instead of writing for the algorithm. This is a very important distinction and why you’ll find such diversity and authenticity here.
As a creator on Substack, my hope is that by providing a large library of free content I will be able to attract people who feel my work is valuable to them. Some of those people will have the means and the desire to pay for more of what I create. When enough of those people pay for my work, I can keep creating, and still keep a large chunk of it free.
For me, it’s really about finding a system that feels fair to all of us - where I get paid for my work and you feel that the exchange is worth it. That’s the goal. That’s what I’m trying to do here.
To learn more about the tech platform that powers this publication, visit Substack.com.
