Dweller is our digital weekly dedicated to food, gardening, cooking, and entertaining in the city.
We sensed there was a community of city dwellers who were both tired of searching for answers in the kitchen, feeling hopeless at the grocery store, and even more overwhelmed with the endless amounts of recipes online. Post-pandemic our founder found herself back in the workplace exhausted, uninspired, and without time to connect to the food that she once used to be so close to in her garden.
With these struggles in mind, she knew that she must return to Baguette and Butter to help her City Dwellers find solutions to find true sustainability in their dwellings as she has been seeking to do.
The idea of Dweller is simple: create a food system with simplicity, community, and sustainability at the forefront. Dweller is for those who live to eat. A membership to Dweller allows you to invest in the food system you dream to see come to life whilst learning about how to garden, cook, preserve, and entertain too.
Every month all Members will receive our Editor-in-Chief’s “Letters From The Garden”.
Paid monthly members unlock an exclusive behind-the-scenes as we write Baguette and Butter’s Guide to Cooking Simply.
Monthly Members also gain access to our:
Recipe Archives
Community Engagement (offering you a seat at the table to ask questions and help shape our food system)
For the City Dweller who wants to invest a little more one can subscribe as a Founding Member. This tier includes all benefits as paid members in addition to:
Access to The House Menu
1 signed copy of “Baguette and Butter’s Guide to Cooking Simply.” upon release.
As we continue to grow our Virtual City we hope to create a larger impact and create more accessible options to local and sustainable food.
Amanda McLemore is a chef and sustainable food activist whose work spans gardening and entertaining.
Fueled by her belief that we can heal ourselves and the earth simultaneously, Amanda is renowned for her unique perspective and presentation on self-care and sustainability for city dwellers.
Born and raised in Detroit, MI, Amanda was always drawn to food. She observed how it had the power to bring people together, help us grieve the loss of a loved one, and nourish and repair us from within. The more she learned about food and cooking it the more curious she became about how it was grown and where her food was coming from.
In 2016, Amanda McLemore gave up the grocery store for an entire year to see if it was possible to better connect with the local food grown within and around her city. In this year she learned much about growing her food, sourcing local and packaged free ingredients, and how to preserve the seasons; all for her health and the health of the planet.
Her work has been featured in Chicago Magazine, IKEA, Apartment Therapy, The Glossary Co., and more. Deemed “a resource that is helping communities take control of their food systems.” by Melanin and Sustainable Style, she continues to curate superior resources and products to help city dwellers live sustainably in their city. She dwells in Chicago with her partner Guillermo, puppy Nora, and her garden bees.
