many videos for picky eaters

December 16, 2023 11:50 PM

Here are a couple youtube videos where the host does a relaxed and friendly "here is a food. we will explore it now. now i am eating it. i could also eat it like this. it tastes good. i have eaten the food." Please share with me more videos like this, like a mr. rogers 101 for non-adventurous eaters. Any foods/cuisines, all ages.
posted by aniola to Food & Drink (5 answers total)

Emmymade has done many videos in this vein, though not as simple and low key as the videos in your link. I particularly love her Fruity Fruits videos (because this is a personal passion of mine as well), she is very good at describing the tastes and textures of what she eats. I also appreciate that she does some research about a lot of the foods she tries or makes, particularly her series about dishes from hard times. She’s been making videos for a long long time and has gone through a lot of styles and phases so it can be a bit intimidating to dig through, but chances are you can search for an ingredient or simple dish name and her username and something will come up.

Beryl Shereshewsky has made something of a career out of trying versions of foods from all over. She interacts with her followers from all over the world and tries their recipes at home and is genuinely enthusiastic and excited to learn how different people use ingredients or view meals. I like her series on toast, it’s a great window for learning just enough to really intrigue a casual viewer about so many places you might otherwise lump in with somewhere else. She is more relaxed than Emmy usually is.

Tasting History with Max Miller is a lot more in depth and detailed than what you’re asking for, but I wanted to link him anyway. He is jovial and straightforward about how things ultimately taste. He seems to straddle the line of not taking himself too seriously while taking the food seriously enough.
posted by Mizu at 4:13 AM on December 17, 2023 [6 favorites]

Chef John at Food Wishes! -- peculiar rhythm but a heart of gold: Fish-cakes-- spag-garlic -- etc.
posted by BobTheScientist at 5:22 AM on December 17, 2023

Have you watched Anthony Bourdain's shows? Interesting, informative, entertaining.
posted by theora55 at 8:14 AM on December 17, 2023

It's a little bit adjacent but I feel like both @cookingforlevi and @karissadumbacher on insta are good for this. Cooking for Levi features a tiny tiny child eating the incredible fancy food his chef father prepares for him. Karissa is a prototypical young, pretty, white, American girl who goes all over the world, eats all the things, reviews them, and enjoys nearly everything she tries in a very enthusiastic American way that is charming.
posted by shadygrove at 2:58 PM on December 17, 2023

Sandwiches of History on IG.
posted by mullacc at 4:07 PM on December 17, 2023