Food · Maggie Hoffman
by Maggie Hoffman
Figuring out what to make for dinner can be exhausting. The Dinner Plan helps you start every week with fresh cooking inspiration, thanks to Maggie Hoffman and a roster of top cookbook authors. You'll get dinner ideas for every season, advice on how to make weeknight meal planning easier, smart budget cooking and grocery shopping tips, and easy dinners to make when you're short on time and energy. Guests on The Dinner Plan include experts like Molly Baz, Melissa Clark, Justine Doiron, Hetty Lui McKinnon, J. Kenji López-Alt, Hailee Catalano, and more. Guests answer questions like: What store-bought shortcuts make your weeknight dinners more flavorful? How do you meal prep or ingredient prep without getting bored? What weeknight dinner recipes would you text to a friend? Where do you find dinner ideas when you don't feel like cooking? To get each guest's cookbook recommendations, plus a free recipe of the week from that guest's latest book, subscribe to The Dinner Plan newsletter at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com—that's also where you'll find our list of 99 dinner ideas you didn't have to think of. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Dinner Plan is my favorite cooking podcast. Host Maggie has a wonderful voice and rapport, and her deep knowledge and love of food make for genuinely great interviews with cookbook authors, seasoned and new alike. Subscribe and make her your weekly kitchen companion — just be warned, you’ll end up buying way too many cookbooks!
I’ve always enjoyed this podcast as a working mom, a home cook, someone overall interested in cooking smarter and better. There’s admittedly been room for greater diversity of realistic and relatable perspectives on the show. But this week’s episode featuring Steel Russell was so impactful outside of the standard tips and perspective on cooking and planning. A reminder that food is a tie that connects us all, and to approach every day with positivity and intention. Amazing.
As an avid cookbook collector, one of my favorite things about Maggie is her ability to for introduce me to cookbook authors I might not have discovered otherwise. Through her recommendations, I’ve found countless new recipes and expanded both my cookbook collection and my culinary horizons.
Maggie's show is such a high point of my week! She has such interesting and fun guests and I always learn so much from each episode about delicious and unique ways of preparing so many foods. She has the best ideas for putting together daily meals, as well as such helpful perspectives about streamlining menus for gatherings with friends. We've completely changed the way we get together with people, thanks largely to Maggie's philosophies, from more elaborate (and sometimes stressful) complicated menus to much more casual, relaxed, and truly fun get-togethers with friends. About our daily dinners and meals with our friends, my husband often says, “Is this from Maggie?” Her warmth and fun sense of humor, combined with her clear talent as a great cook, make her show such a delight for everyone who loves good food and talking about food. The Dinner Plan, both the pod and her Substack newsletter, add so much to our lives. So truly, Maggie, thank you! 💜
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