Talk to Me About Food

About Talk to Me About Food

A podcast about the news and trends that impact the choices we make around getting, preparing, and disposing of our foods and drinks, seen through the lens of a consumer researcher...consumer...human...me. The podcast covers a range of topics related to the cycle of consuming food. DISCOVERY of new foods and cuisines. PLANNING what you're going to make and eat. SHOPPING for food and beverages. PREPARING meals and snacks. DISPOSING of what doesn't get eaten. EATING OUT when you want someone else to work. The goal is to entertain and inform you so I muse about what's trending in the food world: new products, up-and-coming cuisines, food chain sustainability, "smart" kitchen stuff, digital shopping, and more. The recipe for each episode is simple: 1) A good handful of observations. 2) A couple of spoonfuls of insight from experts. 3) A thimbleful of first-hand experience. 4) A dash of whimsy. 5) Simmer until a story emerges.

Publisher

Ali Tadlaoui

Category

arts · business · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Sept 2019

Latest episode

31 Dec 2024

Latest episodes

53 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   31 Dec 2024

   Hail, humble pancake

   This episode captures a thought experiment. In my mind I can see myself creating an eatery of some kind. A second career. But I know enough to know that I don’t know nearly enough or have the fortitude to actually establish and run this eatery I’ve been thinking about for at least 10 years.

2. 

   15 Sept 2024

   Cicadas on the menu?

   The 2024 explosion of cicadas didn’t happen here in North Texas. This was going to be a once in a lifetime event. A coincidence of thirteen-year and seventeen-year broods that hasn’t occurred since Thomas Jefferson fretted over pests in his Monticello gardens. Maybe it has been a bigger deal in the upper Midwest where the bugs were expected to darken the skies. If broods XIX and XIII have made national news or the viralverse, I don’t know about it.I did come across cicada recipes published in...

3. 

   5 May 2024

   What's on Menus in 2024 - The Menu Itself

   What follows now are musings about the forces impacting what we choose to eat AWAY from home Priya Krishna, a contributing writer to the New York Times food section shared her assessment of what she and her team discovered surveying 121 menus from restaurants around the country in a story called “The Menu Trends That Define Dining Now.” This was in the February 7th 2024 edition. It's mostly a light-hearted take on what is on menus and observations about the menu itself. In a previous episode I explored themes Ms. Krishna identifies around what’s being served. On this episode I muse about the ways restaurants are serving up the menu; the physical object you find on the table or wall or otherwise conveyed in the establishment, or the menu that’s displayed on your personal screen.

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