We know who’s original and best!

Congrats, bye the way, about the whole vlog thing. That snowman was cool stuff.

I’ve been cooking less lately, so I haven’t had as much time as usual to listen to gastrocast (i listen to it when I cook of course).

But, it was your show that revealed to me the beautiful power of podcasting: gastrocast was so disarming, so laid back, so obviously a labour of love about a topic of love … and what appealed to *me* was that it falls so far outside of what our commercial media merchants tell us to listen to. It was something entirely different, something so much more attractive to me – but then I am not a very good measure of a lucrative market segment.

The Velvet Underground sold only a few thousand records, before they disbanded; and the Ramones never got real commercial success. We are, still, in the punk rock phase of podcasting …just. Even the old hands are getting better equipment, fancying up their shows, deepening their voices – I know I’ve done all those things with LibriVox. But I think wistfully back at the days of static, and mic pops. Most people don’t, I bet.

Anyway, not sure what I’m going on about. You are a pioneer at the front edge of food podcasting … whether some writer knows that or not.

hugh.