This Is TASTE

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

I almost never review podcasts, and I enjoy listening to this podcast for the fun guests and interesting storytelling from the guests, but sometimes it feels too insider baseball/bi-coastal food snob scene (but maybe that’s the point), ESPECIALLY when Matt hosts. I constantly feel like he’s trying to “one up” the guests or tell his own experiences/stories/talk about the restaurants he’s been to, when really he just needs to lay the runway and allow the storytelling for his great guests. Oftentimes I’ve turned the podcast off because it’s too self-aggrandizing. If Matt’s reading and is open to this constructive feedback, the interview style of Sean Evan’s, especially as a another straight white male interviewer, is such a great model to go upon - he’s knowledgeable and can relate to what his guest is talking about, but not in a posturing way. When Aliza has hosted, I feel like it’s a breath of fresh air - she allows the pod to breathe and the guests to tell their stories. More Aliza, please!

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.

gave many episodes a listen, but this isn’t a podcast for normal people