About the Good Taste Review

The Good Taste Review is a blog dedicated to reviewing the things you need in the kitchen. This includes cookbooks, kitchen tools, edible products or anything that is food related. Our goal is to create a resource where cooks can come to learn about the products they are considering buying. If there is a specific products you are hoping we will review, please let us know through the contact form.

Affiliations

The Good Taste Review is not affiliated with any vendor, publisher or corporate entity. While vendors may stop in to read the posts and comments on the site, we do not relay any information to them. If you would like to get in touch with a company regarding one of their products, we encourage you to do so directly.

Product Policies

The products discussed on the Good Taste Review come to us in a variety of ways. Some we buy ourselves, some are gifts from friends, and still others are offered up for review by the vendors themselves. We will be sure to indicate how the product in question was acquired; if you have any questions, please drop us a line.

All of our reviews are as impartial as possible. Remember that the review process is completely subjective, so your mileage may vary with the products that we discuss here. Of course, if you disagree with any of the reviews we post, we welcome you to leave constructive feedback by way of the commenting system. Any comments deemed rude, inflammatory, abusive, or negative in any way will be removed and the author blocked from further discussion.

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About the Reviewers

Please say hello to our reviewers.

Stephanie Stiavetti

Stephanie is a food writer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She particularly loves cooking adventurously, taking everyday foods and making them edible by anyone, regardless of dietary restrictions. As one who loves to eat, she does not believe in life without something delicious on the table.

Passionate about anything having to do with food or literature, she was fated to combine the two into the makings of a career. After having spent the first half of her adult life submerged in the world of technology, Stephanie has happily given up the computer industry and now makes her living as a culinary wordsmith. Her work has appeared in such major media outlets as Pregnancy Magazine, Clean Eating, and NPR Online.

Stephanie regularly blogs at Wasabimon.com, where she talks about all things food-related. She also Twitters under the username ‘sstiavetti’ where she posts about food, nutrition, writing, and photography.

Kirstin Jackson

The author of It’s Not You, it’s Brie blog, Kirstin Jackson is currently working on a book of the same title. When away from her blog she is still almost entirely consumed with cheese. Managing the wine bar and cheese program at Solano Cellars, teaching cheese and wine classes at the Cheese School of San Francisco, and writing for publications keeps Kirstin very busy. As does her obsession with tasting every cheese she’s ever met.

Kirstin went to culinary school at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco and went on to train in New York, San Francisco and Sacramento. After deciding that the kitchen was keeping her too long from the pen and paper, she returned to school, earned a bachelors degree in cultural anthropology at UC Berkeley, and has been writing and eating away ever since.

She would like to take this opportunity to thank her kind, kind parents who took her on childhood trips around California cheese country to Redwood Hill, Rouge et Noir, Vella, Joe Matos Farm and Sonoma Jack before she was twelve. If she had to wait until she was thirteen, she is sure that her cheese growth would have been stunted. Kirstin’s writing has appeared in places such as the NPR.org and the Edible East Bay. 

Josh Kirkpatrick

Josh Kirkpatrick is a self-taught cook who learned the ways of the kitchen because he is so picky. After all, the best way to guarantee you get what you want is to make it yourself! After his lady developed a gluten intolerance, he became adept at gluten-free cooking and continues to experiment with gluten-free baking.

Josh also enjoys intoxicating liquors and their derivatives, and loves to explore the creation of syrups, cordials and liqueurs. By replacing bottled bar products like granadine and sweetened lime juice with homemade delights, he’s dramatically improved the quality of his home bar and saved money at the same time! Josh’s experience creating his own spirits also makes him particularly adept at judging the products of others.

Josh pays for his food, drink, and Burning Man habits by plying his trade as a software engineer in Silicon Valley, a trade that contributes to his systematic approach of evaluating things that taste good.

Samantha Tackeff

Samantha is a food writer living in San Francisco. She works at Omnivore Books, an independent bookstore in Noe Valley completely dedicated to food. Sam gets to spend the entire day reading cookbooks, hob-nobbing with chefs, cookbook authors, and food lovers, and talking to people about the thing she loves best! She also spends part of her time consulting on a variety of food related projects, including cookbooks, kitchen organization, recipe development and testing.

Passionate about healthy living, Samantha is currently a holistic-health counselor in training, to be board-certified at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Her focus is on helping others live healthy, empowered and more productive lives, using delicious food as a catalyst for change.

Samantha keeps her own food blog at The Second Lunch, where she writes mostly about the San Francisco food scene. She also writes at Healthy Lunch Ideas, where she chronicles her meals and healthy lifestyle. You can follow her tweets at @alphaprep.