This Is TASTE

Aliza Abarbanel, Matt Rodbard

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Booking Overview

This Is TASTE features smart, personality-driven conversations that connect food with culture, media, and books. For PR pros, it’s a high-visibility platform for authors, operators, and food-media figures whose work crosses cuisine with storytelling and public life.

Metrics

Episodes: 795

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Instagram: 124.0k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Aliza Abarbanel - TASTE editor; co-hosts This Is TASTE. (Bio details beyond that are not provided in the prompt.)

Matt Rodbard - TASTE editor; co-hosts This Is TASTE and interviews guests. (Bio details beyond that are not provided in the prompt.)

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Recognized food/media figures, notable cookbook or romance authors, respected restaurant operators, and wine/food writers with public-facing work (books, TV/YouTube brands, or major New York dining openings).
Required Achievements:  
NYT best-selling author, New York restaurant founder/operator, Published books (cookbooks and/or fiction), Food-media leadership (e.g., culinary content executive), Established food writing (e.g., wine writer)

Recent Guest Discussions

Josh Scherer - Food Media; Grief; Celebrity; Mortality; Youtube Culinary Content

Amber Mayfield Hewett - Hosting Parties And Gatherings

Jess Shadbolt - British Food Reputation In New York; British Seafood Pub; Dayboat Fisherman; Restaurant Branding

Julia Turshen - Writing Romantic Fiction; Parallels Between Food And Romance; New Romance Books

Eliza Dumais - Writing Romantic Fiction; Parallels Between Food And Romance; New Romance Books

Recent Topics

Food, Cookbooks, Restaurants, Food Media, Authors

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
This Is TASTE
:

792: Vibe Coding Your Restaurant Recs Map Is the Worst with Eater's Nadia Chaudhury

June 15, 2026

It’s the return of Food Writers Talking About Food Writing. Every couple of weeks, Matt invites a journalist to talk about some favorite recent food writing as well as their thoughts on the industry as a whole. Nadia Chaudhury is the deputy editor of Eater New York and Eater Northeast, a born-and-raised New Yorker who spent a decade running Eater Austin before coming home. Her family is behind Kalustyan’s, the legendary NYC specialty food store that has been feeding chefs, cooks, and curious...

791: Solid Wiggles Doesn't Call It a Jell-O Shot

June 13, 2026

Jena Derman and Jack Schramm are the Brooklyn-based cofounders of Solid Wiggles, the cocktail jelly company that turned the Jell-O shot into a legitimate art form—and a legitimate cocktail. Their debut book is a full system for making layered, clarified, beautifully decorated cocktail jellies at home, from quick party animal shots to three-day party pro cakes with injected flowers and glitter. Jena comes from Momofuku Milk Bar; Jack from Booker and Dax and Existing Conditions. Together they’r...

790: Brendan Chareoncharutkun Built Uncle’s Thai Food. Curry Fans Are Following.

June 12, 2026

Brendan Chareoncharutkun is the founder of Uncle’s Thai Food, a freeze-dried curry brick brand based in New York. He got his start in food by working on farms around the world, learned to cook by working in restaurants in Bangkok, then came to New York to work in marketing, all while doing food pop-ups on the side. That experience and wisdom is combined in Uncle’s, and today on the show, we go deep on everything it took to bring this brand to life—plus Brendan’s new products in the works.  A...

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