About Us

We are Joanne and Adam Gallagher and we started Inspired Taste back in 2009, which houses our favorite original and adapted recipes, kitchen tips and inspiration. Both of us spend our time developing recipes, photographing food and writing for websites and publications, such as TLC, Betty Crocker, Steamy Kitchen, New Asian Cuisine, Food Blog Forum and maché magazine, in addition to following our passion for developing fresh and easy recipes made easy, here, on Inspired Taste. Our recipes and photography has been featured on Bon Appétit, Glamour, Cosmopolitan Australia and Foodista. We work, cook and photograph in our home, just a few minutes outside Washington DC, where we live with our adorable cat Marmalade!

Work With Us

If you are interested in working with us, please contact us directly by using the following email address: inspiredtaste {at} gmail {dot} com. There are many examples of ways we have worked with companies in the past. If an opportunity will benefit the content of our blog and are helpful to our readers, we would love to hear from you.

Areas we are interested in include: food writing and recipe development, becoming an ambassador for your brand as well as travel writing and/or photography. If you have a product or cookbook that you believe will be of value to our readers, please let us know, we would love to hear about it. You can learn more on our Work With Us page.

DISCLOSURE TO INSPIRED TASTE READERS:
We are sometimes compensated to work with brands and companies and are often involved in various other food-related projects.  At no time have or will we ever accept payment to publish positive feedback on a product. All opinions shared on Inspired Taste are ours unless otherwise stated.

Even More about Joanne and Adam!

By day, we commute and work together at a small engineering firm, but at night and on weekends, we spend most of our time covered in chocolate or flour, and working on our skills in cooking and photography. UPDATE: We are happy to announce that we are now working on Inspired Taste full time. All that means is we are now covered in flour and smell like garlic pretty much all the time.

About Adam: Creative and determined by nature, Adam graduated from Virginia Tech in 2008 with a Management Degree concentrated in the areas of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Technology Management. This, combined with restaurant experience and his love for food, cooking and photography has led to articles that he has developed, photographed, prepared and written, such as his favorite Vietnamese Noodle Soup or Joanne’s favorite, the Lemon Drop Martini.

About Joanne: Captured by a passion for food, Joanne has been cooking since she was little. Making breakfasts for Mom and Dad, cooking for friends in college and always experimenting with various ingredients and combinations, food has been a significant part of her life. After graduating in 2008 from Virginia Tech with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, she was still focused on her love for food, the dream of one day writing a cookbook and working within the food industry, with Adam as her partner, Inspired Taste was born. A way to fulfill her passion, Inspired Taste has led to articles that she has developed, photographed, prepared and written such as Bacon, Avocado and Tomato Crostini and Agave Salmon Burgers with a Chipotle Mayonnaise. More recently, Joanne began taking culinary classes, and anticipates graduating with a Culinary Diploma by Summer 2011.

About Marmalade

One of our favorite inspirations is our cat, Marmalade or as she is affectionately called at home, Marme. Marme is 10 11 years old and is quite frankly the sweetest cat we have ever met.  She adores attention and manages to melt our hearts with just a glance. She is always nearby, either on a lap, around our feet or on her chair, located in the kitchen where she enjoys a birds-eye view of all the Inspired Taste happenings!

Our First Video

We actually gathered enough courage to film ourselves and  finally publish our first video.  We wanted to take the candid approach. We decided we would attempt to answer some questions from the Newlywed game. We did not write a script and we barely did any editing so we suggest you prepare yourself.  Adam mostly gets in trouble for the answers he provides, but that is how the game goes most of the time we suppose.

Thank you for visiting and as always, we would just LOVE to hear from you. Feel free to comment below or hop on over to our contact form page to privately email us.