124: Should You Start a Food Podcast? with Maggie Hoffman

Kate, Kristin, and Molly speak with Maggie Hoffman, host of The Dinner Plan Podcast, about her varied career in food media and what led to her starting her show. Maggie reminiscences about blogging, editing and working at Serious Eats and Epicurious as well as the ever changing landscape of food media. She shares why she began her podcast, the concept behind it and the intimacy allowed by the audio medium. She discusses her hopes and goals for the show, how it relates to her newsletter and the upcoming books and guests she is excited to see featured.

Hosts: Kate Leahy + Molly Stevens + Kristin Donnelly + Andrea Nguyen

Editor: Abby Cerquitella

Mentions

Maggie Hoffman

• Podcast: The Dinner Plan Podcast
• Newsletter : The Dinner Plan
• Newsletter: What to Drink
• Instagram: Maggiejhoffman

Maggie's newsletter about starting a podcast

How to Battle Kitchen Burnout (And Still Get Dinner on the Table)

5 Spices, 50 Dishes, by Ruta Kahate

Staples + 5, by Tanorria Askew

Visit the Everything Cookbooks Bookshop to purchase a copy of the books mentioned in the show

• The One-Bottle Cocktail, by Maggie Hoffman
• Batch Cocktails, by Maggie Hoffman
• Dinner, by Meera Sodha
• The Secret of Cooking, by Bee Wilson
• Perfectly Good Food, by Margaret Li and Irene Li
• Staples + 5, by Tanorria Askew
• Salt Sugar MSG, by Calvin Eng
• What Goes with What, by Julia Turshen
• Ambitious Kitchen, by Monique Volz