Did you know the pancake in your pan is partly US foreign policy (+ okonomiyaki recipe)

A city in ruins, a surplus of American wheat, and the world's most adaptable pancake

Apr 1 • Anna Lena Feunekes

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March 2026

This is what happens if you put all your potatoes in one basket (+ potatoes with merkén walnuts recipe)

Chuño, the Irish Famine, and broligarch tariff wars: how the world's most biodiverse crop became boring, fragile, and a tool for subjugation.

Mar 1 • Anna Lena Feunekes

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February 2026

Mail a recipe to someone you love (new postcards in the shop!)

In this episode of 'Anna Lena likes to make things', here is a set of postcards that you'll actually have trouble sending out because they are wicked…

Feb 16 • Anna Lena Feunekes

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Wrapped in migration: how dumplings traveled the world (+illustrated dumpling recipe)

What happens when you spend an afternoon folding dumplings instead of doomscrolling (spoiler: community, meditation, and really good food!)

Feb 3 • Anna Lena Feunekes

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January 2026

The tips and tricks behind every artwork I create with collage

Everyone’s doing that thing where they promise to exercise daily or read 52 books or become fluent in Swedish. Me? I’m suggesting something way more…

Jan 12 • Anna Lena Feunekes

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This newsletter will make you REALLY think about rice and its history (+Nasi Goreng recipe)

From ancient African kingdoms to Balinese water cooperatives: rice cultivation built civilizations on cooperation, not conquest (+ a Nasi Goreng recipe…

Jan 2 • Anna Lena Feunekes

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December 2025

Basically giving away all of my illustration secrets for the good of creativity & the love of flowers (my first ever online art course!)

Just in case you were looking for something creative to do this winter...

Dec 16, 2025 • Anna Lena Feunekes

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The most radical thing you can do at a holiday table is make sure everyone belongs there (+ illustrated stew recipe!)

From mushrooms to miso, umami is the great equalizer (with a recipe so good that it'll make your meat-eating uncle weep into his mashed potatoes... just…

Dec 1, 2025 • Anna Lena Feunekes

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November 2025

Red cabbage as a guide to the ground in the city of Gouda: when vegetables become scientific instruments

Bonus newsletter! A local community project taught me so much about food science and biodiversity, I just had to make an extra newsletter to tell you…

Nov 26, 2025 • Anna Lena Feunekes

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Bet you didn't know this about Gingerbread... (Illustrated recipe inside!)

From ancient medicine to guild-protected luxury: how gingerbread became the OG edible art (with a vegan illustrated recipe that would've gotten you…

Nov 1, 2025 • Anna Lena Feunekes

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October 2025

Around the Table with Anna Lena Feunekes

On confronting toxic female behavior, her outrageously beautiful food illustrations, and the recipe for her Oma's white asparagus soup

Published on What's on your plate? • Oct 29, 2025

I'm finally doing the thing (custom recipe illustrations!)

If you've been looking for holiday gifts or housewarming presents for family and friends who love to cook, this may just save your butt.

Oct 13, 2025 • Anna Lena Feunekes

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