FAQ

The Basics

Where can I learn more about you and why you started Inspired Taste?

Adam and I started Inspired Taste together in August 2009 and have been evolving in the kitchen and in our marriage ever since. Check out our ever-evolving about us page for more information about our lives together and in the kitchen. Plus, you get to see a cute photo of our cat, Marmalade.

Inspired Taste is just us, two people in love with food, cooking and each other. Our focus is to provide our you with recipes and ideas simple enough for a weeknight, but elegant enough to entertain with. We cook and photograph everything ourselves, and only post recipes that have been tested in our small kitchen. Most importantly though, everything we make is always devoured within minutes of taking the photographs. That is the fun part!

I am looking for a certain recipe, how can I find it?

Check out our recipe index or use the search box located in the sidebar. If you don’t find what you are looking for, try the Food Blog Search to see if some of our fellow bloggers can help or use our contact us form to talk to us directly, we will always try to help out where we can.

Why didn’t this recipe work for me?

While we do our very best to ensure our recipes will work for our you, there are so many variables that, as much as we hate to admit, we cannot control. However, we will say this, every photograph on our site directly relates to the recipe below it. You will never see a recipe that we are not confident in and have not mastered ourselves. But, as always, if you find yourself disappointed in one of our recipes, please let us know, it’s okay, we can take it. Any and all feedback is positive to us; we only want to create, be and make things better.

I need the recipe in liters not cups! Help me, please?

We are well aware that our readers come from all over the world (so cool, by the way), but just cannot stomach the fact of converting all of our recipes to meet everyone’s needs (we would, but remember, we do also have day jobs). To alleviate the issue a little, check out here. If that does not answer your question use our contact us form and we will try to help out as much as we can.

I have a recipe / general cooking question, can you help me?

We certainly like to think so, if your question relates to one of our recipes on the site, leave a comment on that post with your question, this way everyone can benefit and join in to help. If it is a more general cooking / kitchen question, go ahead and use our contact us form.

Our Work

Are the recipes on your site yours?

There is a good reason why we chose the name Inspired Taste. You see, we firmly believe that inspiration is everywhere; you just need to know how to use it. We are very proud of the recipes on this site, but feel uncomfortable with the idea that those recipes have just come to us without help from cookbooks, bloggers, magazines, chefs and whatever else might come our way.

Joanne is in culinary school, we both love trying new restaurants, scouring menus for ideas, watching food related shows on Food Network or the Cooking Channel and of course, flipping through various magazines and cookbooks. So, are all the recipes 100% ours? No. But, they are the way we like them, adaptation of methods, flavor combinations, we share our own voice, our own mistakes and our own variations. Most of the time, we are at a loss to tell you who inspired us, because to be honest, inspiration usually comes from a variety of sources, with that said, when we can, we will show attribution, because Adam and I believe in food and the people who make, share and love it. That is why we blog.

What kind of camera do you use?

We are extremely lucky to be able to use a Nikon D700. Probably the best Christmas present ever We have a couple lenses, but our favorite is the Nikon 105mm f/2.8 VR (we have considered naming her, yes, the lens is a “her”).

Can I write about one of your recipes or photos on my site?

We are flattered! However, we are extremely proud of our work and do ask a few things first. Please ask us (just use our using our contact us form). If we give permission, you should identify www.inspiredtaste.net as the place where you found the recipe. Most likely, we will say yes, but we just want to know where our work is going and what it is portraying.

The Blog

What platform is your site on?

We use WordPress and the Thesis Theme, with many tweaks in code, widgets and plugins. We are constantly changing things here and there, well Adam is, Joanne is still trying to catch up with the technology.

I want to start my own blog, how do I do it?

Take a look on the web; there are lots of free blog platforms out there to get you started. We started and still work with WordPress and have found the platform to be extremely simple. If you want to talk to us about starting your own blog, please use our contact us form, we would love to share advice, contacts or suggestions with you.

Will you link with me, can we exchange links?

We do not exchange links. However, we love reading other people’s work and get excited to find new or even established blogs that we have never come across before. Our Good Reads page is a very accurate representation of which blogs we personally follow. With that said, if you have your own blog and want us to take a look, use our contact us form to send it over and we will of course take a look.

I am interested in advertising on your blog, how can I contact you?

We are more than happy to discuss any additional advertising opportunities, however, site space is limited, so we must consider all advertisements on a case-by-case basis. Just send us an email using our contact us form and we are happy to discuss. On that note, we do work with advertising services including, http://www.gourmetads.com, http://www.platefull.com and http://www.foodieblogroll.com and have a full privacy policy. Please click here for Inspired Taste’s Full Privacy Policy.

Do you have a privacy policy?

Yes, of course. We have two versions. The first, shown below, is a little less wordy, well a lot less wordy, and should answer most concerns you may have. The second can be found by clicking the following link and is in relation to the advertising services we currently work with. Click Here

You are certainly not “data” to us-instead you are friends and people who make me, Adam and our fluffy cat, Marmalade very happy; your privacy is no joke. Which is why your email address or any other private information will never be inappropriately shared with anyone. Ever.

When you comment on one of our blog posts, you will be asked for an email address. The main purpose for this is so we know you’re a real person and not a spammer, and so we can personally reach out to you with answers to questions or if you’ve won one of our giveaways. That email address will be hidden once the comment is submitted. Plus, if you send us an email, using our contact us form your email address will never be passed along either. We don’t want that to happen to us, so we would never do it to you. So, you won’t end up on some annoying mailing list or find tons of spam in your inbox.

Keep in mind however, if you write personal info like your full name or your email address in the body of your comment (or in the “Name” or “URL” field) that info can be viewed by anyone and all reading the comment section of that post. So keep it informal and just use your first name, keep your email address out of the comment itself and you will be fine. By contrast, your email address, as entered in the “E-mail” section of the comment form, will remain completely hidden from view and will never be shared.