This Is TASTE

Aliza Abarbanel, Matt Rodbard

Booking Overview

This is an interview-led food and culture show focused on cooking, restaurants, cookbooks, and food media, with recurring guests including chefs, cookbook authors, restaurateurs, journalists, and food advocates. PR agencies could credibly pitch established or emerging culinary professionals, restaurant founders, cookbook authors, food writers, and policy advocates; booking difficulty is medium because the show attracts notable industry figures but also features accessible specialists.

Metrics

Episodes: 847

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Instagram: 124.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

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Host

Aliza Abarbanel - TASTE editor covering food, cooking, and culinary culture.

Matt Rodbard - TASTE editor and food journalist covering restaurants, chefs, cookbooks, and the food industry.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Established chefs, cookbook authors, restaurant founders, food journalists and editors, culinary creators, and advocates with a distinctive professional perspective or notable work in the food industry.

Required Achievements:

Published cookbooks, Leadership of notable restaurants or food businesses, Recognized culinary or media careers, Significant food-policy or advocacy work, Notable food-industry ventures and collaborations

Recent Guest Discussions

Carla Hall - Baking, Her Cookbook Carla Bakes: Sweet, Savory, And From The Heart, And Her Approach To Developing Special Recipes.

Mohamed Attia - His Path From Food-cart Operator To Advocate, New York City Vending Policy, And Notable Street-food Vendors.

Olivia Tiedemann - Private Cheffing, Her Cookbook Eat (like) The Rich, Recipe Development, And Cooking For Martha Stewart.

Joey Scalabrino - Building Apollo Bagels, Pop-ups And Collaborations, Brand Development, And The Company’s Expansion.

Dana Brown - Restaurant Economics, Food Journalism, Media-industry Trends, Keith Mcnally’s Legacy, And Caper’s Coverage Of The Food Business.

Recent Topics

Food, Food Culture, Cookbooks, Restaurants, Home Cooking

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

This Is TASTE

844: Adrianna Adarme Was Supposed to Make Movie Trailers. Instead, She Made the Meatballs.

September 28, 2026

Adrianna Adarme has been cooking out loud since 2011, when A Cozy Kitchen was just a bored-at-work blog. This fall, she’s releasing A Cozy Kitchen Cookbook—a terrific book built around not seasons or courses but moods. In this episode, Matt talks to Adrianna about her cooking style and growing her highly personal brand, online and off. And it’s the return of Three Things, where Aliza and Matt discuss what’s interesting to them in the world of food including Melissa Clark’s The Big Book of Di...

843: Kwame Onwuachi on Pitching Investors, Cooking All Hours, and Golf Taking Over His Life

September 25, 2026

Kwame Onwuachi—the chef behind Tatiana, Dōgon, and restaurants from Miami to Las Vegas—joins Matt in the studio for the first time. We get into his big idea for the CPG game, his pull toward Ethiopian cooking, and his three books, capped by All Hours, which is less a cookbook and more a statement about what he actually wants to cook every day. And it’s the return of Three Things, where Aliza and Matt discuss what’s interesting to them in the world of food including Aliza recaps her trip to N...

842: Danny Meyer on the Pain of Eater Deathwatch; Playing Cat and Mouse with Sam Sifton

September 23, 2026

Danny Meyer built Union Square Hospitality Group on a promise: he’d never close a restaurant. Then he closed one, and it changed how he thinks and writes about leadership. Twenty years after the release of his influential book Setting the Table, Meyer returns with a terrific new memoir, What Could Possibly Go Right?, and he joins us to talk about failure, scaling culture across 700 restaurants, walking back his progressive no-tipping experiment, and what it feels like to hand the reins of his...

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