I'm Launching A Food Podcast!

It's called "To Taste," and each episode dives deep into a different food.

You heard it here first! I am so excited to share my new food podcast: To Taste. Much like this collection of writing, To Taste (the podcast) is an ongoing exploration of the personal, emotional, and intuitive sides cooking, but this time with company.

Every episode, I interview a new guest expert about a different food (think: fried chicken, hot sauce, cake). Together, we dive deep, exploring every nook and cranny of that food: its essential ingredients and their purposes, each step of the cooking process and the inflection points and challenges therein, and the various substitutions, adaptations, and relevant cooking principles along the way. Everything. The goal is to learn how the guest thinks about that food (all their shortcuts, preferences, thought processes), so that the listener (and I) leaves each episode more comfortable making that food on their own, without a recipe, to their own taste.

I’ve been working on this project for about six months and have already interviewed ten awesome guests — I talked to Alice Waters about salad, Brad Leone about preparing food you catch, Lucas Sin about fried rice, and so many more. I can’t wait for you to hear it all :)

The most exciting part is: the first episode is OUT NOW. In it, I talk with Lex Weibel, the wonderful NYT Cooking senior staff editor and recipe developer about… GRILLED CHEESE. I thought this was the perfect first dish to start out with, such a simple lens through which to think about intuitive cooking. The most exciting part is: the episode is OUT NOW. Listen on Spotify below, or wherever you get your podcasts!

Each episode dives into a new food in an ongoing exploration of intuitive cooking.

And that’s all I’ve got for you. No story this week. I’ve aged about 15 years editing this podcast episode, and what I want most is for you to listen to it. I’ll be releasing new episodes every two weeks at first, and then weekly if I learn how to edit better or someone starts paying me (haha………….). Either way, I’ll be back next Monday with a custom city guide that I am very excited about. See you then <3

In the meantime — who else should I interview? What foods should we explore? Let me know what you think.

Yours,
Cody

P.S. If you listen to the episode and like it, I’d be honored if you’d consider engaging with it (subscribing, leaving a review…) as I think those things help other people find it. I also made an Instagram, but honestly I’ll be honored even if you just check it out :)

P.S.S. A massive thanks to so many people for their help getting this off the ground — Ben Bechelli, Natalie Rotter-Laitman, Justin Kohlberg, Eva Victor, Sam Anderson, Caleb Peyton, Simon Linsteadt… so many more. Thank you <3