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  • 6 days ago | mattrodbard.substack.com | Matt Rodbard

    I’ve been writing about food in New York City for just about 20 years now and have reported “food crawl” stories for nearly that long. Back before social media videos, AI notes apps, and iPhones, the process was definitively analog: talk to friends, read message boards, write down findings in a notepad. I hate my handwriting (I actually hate writing anything by hand), so the note taking was by far the worst part.

  • 1 week ago | tastecooking.com | Matt Rodbard

    This Is TASTE 600: The Jonathan Gold Question with Restaurant Critic Besha Rodell Thank you to all of our listeners for helping us get to 600 episodes. If you like what we are doing, drop us a review on Apple or Spotify. Besha Rodell is a restaurant critic, columnist, and freelance reporter based in Melbourne, Australia. She is a James Beard Award winner and served as a critic at Creative Loafing, LA Weekly, and The Age.

  • 1 week ago | tastecooking.com | Matt Rodbard

    This Is TASTE 598: Food Writers Talking About Food Writing with Eater’s Jaya Saxena & Matt Rodbard It’s the return of a special video podcast series: Food Writers Talking About Food Writing. It’s available on the TASTE YouTube channel, so make sure to subscribe and check out the video version of this podcast. Every couple of weeks, Matt Rodbard invites a journalist to talk about some favorite recent food writing as well as their thoughts on the industry as a whole.

  • 2 weeks ago | mattrodbard.substack.com | Matt Rodbard

    Well first off, MacKenzie Chung Fegan deserves the first words here. What a fine piece of criticism, her writing in the San Francisco Chronicle that everybody is talking about. Thomas Keller asked me to leave the French Laundry. It turned into my most extraordinary night as a critic. What a headline – smart, and the sentence case looks pretty great there.

  • 2 weeks ago | tastecooking.com | Matt Rodbard

    This Is TASTE 596: Taking the Temp on Food Media, Podcasts, Creators, Pop-Ups, and Today’s Dining Culture with Tasteland Tasteland is a very cool podcast that offers creative takes on media, marketing, and technology from Daisy Alioto and Francis Zierer. Daisy is the CEO of Dirt Media, a next-generation entertainment brand using emerging technology to tell the coolest stories about culture and collecting.

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It's @thesnaxshot with the razor-sharp analysis you want - for you morning-after SB armchair QBs. https://t.co/i3E77vaDVx