Adam Ragusea
Adam Ragusea makes home-cooking videos, food reporting and podcasts, bringing a former radio journalist’s curiosity to recipes and the questions behind them.
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YouTubeOverview
- Based in
- Knoxville, Tennessee
- Makes
- Cooking videos, food reporting, podcasts and music
- Before YouTube
- Public-radio journalist and Mercer University journalism teacher
- Breakout
- A homemade New York-style pizza video that took off in 2019
Mini bio
Before the kitchen videos.
Adam came to YouTube through music, radio and teaching. He studied composition, worked at WFIU in Indiana and WBUR in Boston, and became Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Macon bureau chief in 2012. He joined Mercer University’s journalism faculty in 2014 and also hosted and produced Current’s public-media podcast The Pub.
The pizza that changed things.
While teaching video production, Adam made cooking videos to practice the skills himself. He uploaded Making New York-style pizza at home in December 2018; it began taking off in March 2019. A video about broiled chocolate chip cookies followed, and cooking eventually became his full-time work after he left Mercer in 2020.
Cooking for a real home.
His recipes leave room for judgment. In his cutting-board steak video, he describes wanting viewers to understand how food should look and feel, rather than simply reproduce a formula. His channel also follows the questions around food, from prices to science, and makes room for music, lifting and aquariums.
Creditschronological, newest first
Video
- 2020How I became the Mariah Carey Christmas chord guy (and why I hate it)Creator and presenter
- 2019Why I Season My Cutting Board, NOT My SteakCreator and presenter
- 2018Making New York-style pizza at homeCreator and presenter
Radio
- 2013All Quiet, One Year After Kroger ShootingReporter, Georgia Public Broadcasting
Music
- 2002–2003JiahuComposer and guitarist on the live recording
Awards
Quotes
I like for a recipe to get me in the ballpark, and then I like to eyeball and improvise the rest.Adam Ragusea, Why I Season My Cutting Board, NOT My Steak
From the cooking philosophy in his video description, May 9, 2019.
Trivia
- He wrote Jiahu after reading about ancient bone flutes excavated in China, and played guitar on the live recording.
- His 2020 Christmas-chord video revisits his own Slate article about why Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You sounds Christmassy.
- He makes a weekly Patreon podcast called Wholesome with friends Ben and Adam.
- Away from cooking, he shares aquascaping videos, including a mangrove tank and greenhouse tours.
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