This Is TASTE - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I appreciate the in-depth discussions of ingredients, culture, and genealogy of the foods! Thank you for all the research and clarity! I always enjoy each episode and eager look forward for next “class!” session! 🌷wonderful example of listening to learn— rather than fix!

Although I’ve been a listener (and pub reader) for awhile, it just dawned on me that the show is hitting a major milestone; I decided it was high-time to shout from the rooftops! As an All Food Media junkie, This Is Taste has become one of my favorite podcasts. I think what I love most is how relaxed each guest seems to feel as if your listening to a couple of good friends out for coffee. The icing on the cake is you also just get really great content without feeling any part is contrived. Love, love, love it.

Absolutely adore this podcast. I love both interviewers - what some might see as name dropping or interrupting with “useless” asides is to me an aspirational, encyclopedic level knowledge of the food scene past and present. There are plenty of non-foodie interviews with all these same people if you want to hear that. Think of this podcast as the Devil Wears Prada scene about the blue top. This is not a lowest common denominator food podcast.

I do skip some which are more like long product advertisements, though those sometimes do surprise me - these are major forces shaping the food world that are still important to hear about in their own words, but if you want more investigative journalism you gotta look elsewhere.

Accolades/superlatives … all that are in order for this wonderfully simple, easy, informative, professional, important, fun, peaceful and wonderful podcast. I truly truly cannot wait for each episode to drop and so delighted when I see the logo in my feed.
The two hosts,Aliza and Matt are really skilled interviewers,each with a distinct style. The careful attention to format, especially in the opening and the closing “ rapid fire” is so incredibly soothing and well done. I particularly love Aliza’s vocal tone and how she says the welcome each time, each new guest, the same way each time . It’s great. I could go on and on, but suffice to say, their passion for food, chefs, restaurants, the culture, cookbooks, food history, recipes, the work and and and is thrilling and inspiring.
I’ll never get to go, eat, read most of what they speak of but the fantasy is what I’m here for and theirs and all their guests skill and accomplishments. Thank you for the food love!
Marcia Levine
NY’er now Boynton Beach Fla
PS we have ( surprisingly,our secret gem called Nicholson Muir. I’d say it’s as close to 5 star as you get in Boynton🩷. Shout out to James Nicholson