“Cook the Perfect” is a Deliciously Entertaining Podcast

It is around that time in the semes­ter where I real­ly start to miss my mom’s home cooked meals. When look­ing for this pod­cast I was hun­gry but didn’t want din­ing hall food. Since good food and cook­ing were on my mind, I chose to lis­ten to a cook­ing pod­cast. I was also real­ly inter­est­ed to see how BBC would imple­ment such a visu­al type of activ­i­ty into a pod­cast. Although a bit uncon­ven­tion­al, “Cook the Per­fect” pod­cast was entertaining.

Jen­ni Mur­ray, the host of the cook­ing pod­cast inter­viewed French Chef Michel Roux about his new book “The Essence of French Cook­ing.” Before she got into the details of the inter­view, she made the lis­ten­ers feel as if they were sit­ting at a table talk­ing about rata­touille with the two of them. She not only gained a rap­port with Roux, but in a sense she did that with the lis­ten­ers as well to make them feel included.

Although there were no inter­ac­tive ele­ments to click on the web­site, it makes sense there was only a pause but­ton, a vol­ume adjus­tor and a play­back but­ton since you would pos­si­bly be cook­ing along with the pod­cast and would have your hands full.

This pod­cast seems to be designed like a cook­ing show, where it is more inter­ac­tive in the sense that it is meant to be lis­tened to while doing some­thing else. Though this spe­cif­ic pod­cast was more of an inter­view, I lis­tened to parts of their oth­er pod­casts that includ­ed both inter­views and cook­ing togeth­er. The back­ground nois­es of a siz­zling stove and the activ­i­ty in the kitchen made this pod­cast series all the more authen­tic and unique to bring lis­ten­ers back every week.

Pod­casts are a genius way to get infor­ma­tion and ideas out to audi­ences that are on the go. Though it is vital for the pod­cast to be engag­ing and cre­ative, if done prop­er­ly it can be a huge success.