Dinner happens every day, whether you feel inspired or not. Our Daily Bite is built for that reality.
We cook American recipes from the books and shows people already trust, and we keep the ones that survive a real week: the tired Tuesday, the small kitchen, the oven that runs a little hot. Recipes you make once are easy to find. Recipes you make forty times are the ones worth collecting.
Before anything publishes
Two things have to be true about every recipe on this site.
First, it has a real origin. A cookbook we can open, an episode we can point to, an official page we can link. Recipes with a famous name and no findable source stay off the site, no matter how much traffic they’d bring.
Second, we cooked it. Not skimmed it, not rewrote it from another blog. Made it, ate it, and wrote down where the published version and the real experience didn’t match. If a dish flops twice in our kitchen, it doesn’t get a page, it gets retired.
The people in the kitchen
We’re the team behind Zaytouna Studio, working from Tunisia and cooking American food week in, week out. It started as curiosity about the dishes we kept seeing on Food Network. It turned into the job.
- Imene Dridi, recipe tester and writer. Cooks most of what you see here. Trained at L’Académie des Chefs in Tunis. Facebook
- Sabrine Hajri, recipe tester and writer. Same training, and the one who takes the recipes that misbehave and cooks them until we understand why. Facebook
- Dorra Thabet, recipe writer. Writes every step plain enough to follow at 7pm on a work night. Facebook
- Mohamed Thabet (Hamma), editor. Gives every article its final read. Sloppy doesn’t get through him. Facebook
- Bilel Saidani, photographer and social. Every photo on the site is his, taken the day the dish was cooked. Facebook
- Mohamed Shili, co-founder and tech. The site itself, from build to uptime, is his department. Facebook
- Hamdi Saidani, founder and editor-in-chief. Everything goes live through him or not at all. Facebook
Sources and credit
The recipes we cook come from the best-known names in American home cooking, Ina Garten, Ree Drummond, and the cookbook and Food Network regulars alongside them. Each article names the person whose recipe it is and where it was published.
Our Daily Bite has no affiliation with any of them. Nobody featured here sponsors, endorses, or works with this site. What we publish is our adaptation and our honest experience of publicly available recipes, with the original work belonging entirely to its creator. Rights holders who want to talk to us can use the contact page, and we respond quickly.
Find us
If one of these recipes made it into your rotation, or fell out of it, we want to hear about it. The contact page reaches all of us.