Culinary Podcaster Maggie Hoffman ’04 Knows What’s for Dinner

About this episode

Maggie Hoffman discusses her journey in building a podcast focused on dinner planning and cooking.

On this episode of the PAWcast, Maggie Hoffman ’04 discusses her path to building a podcast and an online presence around that age-old question, which some of us love and some of us hate: What’s for dinner? Previously, Maggie was managing editor of Serious Eats and digital director of the recipe website Epicurious, and she published two books of cocktail recipes. Now, she’s applying what she learned at her own venture, titled The Dinner Plan. Patrons of her podcast and Substack get recipes, cookbook recommendations, and other tips. Like how to recover from kitchen burnout. She agreed to come on the PAWcast to discuss her journey and help us all figure out what to put on the table tonight. Read a transcript of this episode at paw.princeton.edu.

People in this episode

Host: Princeton Alumni Weekly

Guest: Maggie Hoffman

Topics covered

• podcasting
• cooking
• recipes
• kitchen burnout
• food culture

Keywords

• Maggie Hoffman
• dinner
• podcast
• recipes
• cooking tips

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Serious Eats, Epicurious, The Dinner Plan

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