Closing Reflections and a Creative Taste Check

We’re excited to launch a special video podcast series: Food Writers Talking About Food Writing. It’s available on the TASTE YouTube channel, so make sure to subscribe! Every couple of weeks, cohost Matt Rodbard will invite a journalist or cookbook author to talk about some favorite recent food writing as well as their thoughts on the industry as a whole. Our first guest is a special one: Eric Kim is a writer and columnist at the New York Times and a great consumer of food writing. In this episode, we talk about Eric’s media diet, discuss a few favorite stories, Eli Sussman taking over as NYT restaurant critic, and ask the big question: What would you pitch 1997 Graydon Carter? That is, Eric considers his dream no-budget reporting assignment.

You can check out the full episode on YouTube now.

Featured on this episode:

• Steak Fries: Deservedly Reviled or Underappreciated Edible Spoons? [NYT]
• What Can’t Jerk Do? [TASTE]
• Chef Eli Sussman Named NYT Restaurant Critic [Instagram]
• Lessons From Germany on a Better Bratwurst [NYT]