Welcome to Let’s Get Lost, home of The Lost Supper Club!
I’m Rebecca, a cookbook author, recipe developer, 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 nomads who live in an RV, so I write about life on the road, the incredible places we visit, and the inspiring people we meet along the way.
One of the greatest lessons that a life on the road has taught me is that there are fascinating, thoughtful, good people everywhere. I have a feeling you might be one of them.
If you enjoy reading recipes, recommendations, hosting tips, and good ideas from other people and are inspired by new places and experiences, you’ll find some like-minded friends here. Above all else, I hope you find beauty and inspiration inside every issue.
The Let’s Get Lost Newsletter is for free subscribers. Every issue includes stories and photos from the road plus new recipes inspired by the places we visit and the people we meet.
The Lost Supper Club, a traveling dinner party where the guest list changes every month, is for paid subscribers. As we make our way across the country, we are inviting people for dinner and showing up for dinner at their homes. Lost Supper Club members get a virtual VIP pass into the meals we share with other people all over the country. This includes local insights and recommendations, hosting tips, and treasured family recipes from people all over the country.
"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
The Let’s Get Lost Newsletter
The Let’s Get Lost newsletter will show up in your in-box on Saturday mornings and is free for all subscribers.
Most issues include:
Stories and photos from the road
Several new recipes, inspired by the places we visit and the people we meet
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
Free subscribers have access to all the free recipes published during the current calendar year.
Scroll through the 2025 recipe index!
All the recipes and issues published in prior years are available to paid subscribers (members of The Lost Supper Club).
The Lost Supper Club
A traveling dinner party where the guest list changes every month.
"Gorgeous photography. Excited to follow along on your journey with food, travel and friendship. Thank you for sharing!" - Shelly
Lost Supper Club Members (paid subscribers) receive every issue of the Let’s Get Lost Newsletter plus all the Lost Supper Club content:
Recipes, recommendations, hosting tips, ideas, and inspiration from the hosts and guests of the Lost Supper Club
Lost Supper Club members can get the digital version of the Let’s Get Lost Cookbook for just .99¢! They also receive a discount on the print version of the book!
FOUNDING MEMBERS will receive a signed, printed copy of Let’s Get Lost, The Cookbook, Vol 1 (Regular price: $87.49)
Downloadable pdf recipe cards for every recipe published in the Let’s Get Lost newsletter and the Lost Supper Club
Insider information and recommendations for restaurants, destinations, and fun things to do and see as we travel around the county.
Full access to the entire recipe archive. The full recipe index for 2024 and 2025 and the complete newsletter archive are available only to paid subscribers.
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!)
Supper club members will directly support and shape the 2025 cookbook project - The Year Of The Supper Club! (More about that below!)
Food is an enormous part of our individual and collective history and one way to learn about people is to step into their kitchens and share a meal. That’s what we do here.
The Lost Supper Club is for everyone who:
enjoys reading recipes, recommendations, hosting tips, and good ideas from other people.
values human connection
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
"This is a delightful site with great stories, recipes from a fabulous lady!! So proud to subscribe." - Carol
What is a Supper Club anyway?
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!
The Let’s Get Lost Cookbook
The Let’s Get Lost Cookbook is the culmination of many of the recipes and stories I published in this newsletter in 2024. It includes 143 recipes with full color photos of every dish and, scattered amongst the recipes, a handful of the stories from our life on the road.
Find out more about the cookbook here, including a free preview!
The 2025 cookbook project, The Year of The Supper Club, 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)
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
A little bit more about me
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.
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. 👏
I am also a cookbook author and 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.
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 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.
