The Tasting History website is finally up!

Love having the recipes. We tried the strawberry tart and could not figure out if it was done or not, though. Spoiler alert - was not done. How do people know when to take it out of the oven?

Love the website! Easy to navigate and contains the essence of the youtube videos.

Great work! The site is clean and loads quickly. I love the section/links for buying hard-to-find ingredients, along with all the recipes! I'll be curious as to how many hits you get in your first month up/public -I think it's going to be popular! :)

Very nice - clean, easy to navigate, nice connections between "stuff" and recipes/episodes. Looking at your merch, though, where oh where is a cool Tasting History apron a la the ones you often wear?

Great website, Max! The only thing I noticed that was odd: (using my iPhone) the first ingredient I clicked to buy (long pepper) opened in my Amazon app. I put it in my cart and kept shopping. But each of the books I clicked on (Epicurus, Forme of Cury) opened in a new webpage for Amazon. I had to sign in before adding anything to my cart. It’s a small thing, but you want it to be as easy as possible for folks to buy your excellent wares. Also, prices on the purchase links would be helpful. Thanks for all you do.

My husband asked me to comment the following— "The site as a whole looks really good, and I appreciate the links to ingredients, the research books, and the tools (like the hand-cranked butter churn). It would also be very nice to have a different kind of link, though, which took you back from the ingredient or book to the list of the recipes that use it. So, for example, a user clicking the long-pepper link would be able to see that it occurs in the Patina de Piris episode and any other episodes in which it has a significant role. Obviously, some ingredients would show up too often to list them every time, but it would be useful to see where they have a critical part to play in the dish or discussion. On the merchandise page, the "Shop more on crowdmade" doesn't really hint that there are two dozen designs there compared to the four you currently have on the page. You might want to update the text to indicate that there are other types of merchandise (totes, glassware, and so on) at the crowdmade site, since the reader would otherwise have no way to know that there is anything like that available. Overall, though, great to see the site live, and good luck with it! "

I'm an SEO (search engine optimization) expert and big fan. :D I'd like to lend you my skills for free to optimize this website. The site is brand new and not ranking for anything yet, but it did rank for "tasting history" in August when I think the website turned on, and now it no longer ranks. But I think I could help give recommendations to make it more findable on Google so people can find you from Google without knowing who you are via YouTube. One thing I noticed is that in order to get any of the episode pages to rank, there will need to be more text on those pages. Adding an exact transcript of the video, under the video, will help with that. The research page looks to google to be basically blank. The names and authors of the books should be under each one at mimimum. Also, there needs to be some work on Metatags and amount of content on the page. For example, the Title tag on the Homepage only says "Tasting History" where it should be something like "Tasting History - Vintage and Old-Fashioned Recipes from History" (vintage recipes = 1.1k monthly volume, old fashioned recipes 4.6k monthly volume) The homepage has very little text for Google to understand what the site is about. The text should relay the main keywords that you want to attract to your site. I can do a whole analysis if you're interested.

The website looks very good. I can't think of anything that others haven't already mentioned. I will make a minor suggestion that is unrelated to the new Tasting History website. Max, your thumbnails for Patreon and Instagram still show beardless Max. Perhaps those thumbnails should be updated to photos of bearded Max. Lol maybe those thumbnails are like everybody's driver's license photo - you use that photo even when you don't quite look like that anymore?

Love the new website! Congratulations! A couple things I noticed - on the tab (like if you have multiple tabs open in Chrome) there is a generic cube to the left of the webpage name - maybe change this the spoon or pot from the logo? It seems like the tags are still in progress - are there plans for adding tags like drinks, breads, soups/stews, etc? I second the suggestions to add an about page. The webpage is wonderful!

One more comment: THANK YOU for the Research section. A selection of books, being validated by an expert who actually used them as sources, is interesting and helpful. I can already see my bank account evaporating, though... ^_^

I love this! So much. Thank you for making it! I navigated through most of the site and I did find one small issue. At the bottom of the recipes there are next and previous buttons/ links. The font on these is such that they sometimes blend into each other or are so close they are a little hard to read. At least in safari on my iPhone. Perhaps reduce the font size for those buttons?

Howdy Max — your friends at Creeking House are double-D-lighted to see the website up and functional — information-rich, yes — even better because it is infused with glimmers of Max humor 😇 Felicitations and thanks !

One other little thing: if people are selecting categories or tags, having the ability to back to all posts, not having to select a category or tag, might be useful.

This is wonderful! And thank you for not writing 15 paragraphs about nothing before getting to the recipe. One note: in the Ingredients section, could you maybe link to the recipe it's used in? Like I really don't remember which recipe the sandalwood is used in, for example.

This may change with more recipes being loaded, but you don’t have a filter for Roman recipes, which I know will be a big draw as the garum episode is where you really took off. Adding by empire or region instead of 5th century/etc may be easier…or both?

Hi Max - I love the website - visually attractive and well designed. Two things - I don't know how well the search function is working as you don't have all the recipes loaded. I tried searching for Parthian chicken, syllabub and Sally Lund buns and none of those came up. Maybe they're just not there yet. Second thing - Amazon says that garum and long pepper are unavailable and they don't know when they will be available - so the links to those ingredient sources are dead ends. I didn't try the other ingredients that you have listed. Alternatives sources?? But really - it's a great site!

Love the website, especially the ease of access for the recipes and the “jump to” button! The layout is clear and easy to read, too! Congratulations 💕💕

It looks wonderful! Bookmarked!

I agree with some of the other comments that the website needs an About page that describes how Tasting History started. It's a good story and as we share this website with others, it will allow them to see the remarkable progress you've made.

Oh my goodness Max - the sources page! I see many new books in my future. I like the tags underneath each recipe that allows one to click on an interesting tag, which brings up similar recipes. That is a good feature.

Fantastic! It looks great and it is easy to maneuver through the variety of recipes and time periods.

Two suggestions: An About page with information about yourself and a brief history of how things came to be, secondly, you have a domain now, suggest your email from/for your page using your domain, not Gmail; even if it’s just an alias or a forwarding account.

I'd just like, as you know, to also find suggestions for themed menus, selecting the recipes you found more interesting and/or more pleasant in terms of taste. Anyhow, excellent job!

Graphically pleasant, functional, well conceived. Congratulations.

Really appreciate that you have the recipes filtered by time period and by region. It’s a nice touch.

Congratulations!! I am very excited. It looks wonderful

Nice job! Launching websites is difficult! Site is easy to use on desktop / mobile. I like the tagging for episodes! I like the links between episodes and recipes. I LOVE that the recipes resemble a cookbook rather than the rambley ones I often find on random websites. The ingredients and research sections are interesting and fit the site / videos. Like the logo! Very fun. Minor: Favicon is missing. Minor: On Desktop the Category filter is a little long, but usable. Is there an option for autocomplete? Minor: Categorization is difficult (impossible?) and the difference between categories / tags is not immediately clear, but useful enough since I can just see what's in them / click on links. Minor: Do you want to feature your book in the menu / header / store section?

It looks great, and from what I saw, works great too!

It looks good to me. I checked out your store. I looked at some recipes. I like the design. I love the colors. I think it looks great.

Looks good.

Yay! Congratulations!

Thank you for the ingredients page! I know what I’m getting Katie for her birthyday, now!

From a tentative YT channel to collaborations, a book, and a website, you, my friend, are reaping the fruits of your endeavors. I like the look and simplicity of the website and look forward to seeing it grow like your channel. Congratulations!

One suggestion -- when you get a chance, could you add a year tag? It would make it faster to find some of my favorite early episodes to re-watch.

Love the website! easy to navigate (so SquareSpace really was helpful, eh? :-) ) I LOVE LOVE LOVE all the tags on the episodes. Thank you so much for that.

The new website is wonderful! I love the categories and where you can purchase ingredients l.

It’s so lovely of you to share the research and ingredient pages. The generosity of spirit to share the mental labor you’ve already undertaken is very much appreciated.

Congratulations. So great! I love the page where you highlight the interesting ingredients. In the categories drop down, the centuries are on not consecutive, 5th is coming after 20 th for me. For the page with the ingredients, any way you can align the "buy" buttons? I’m on an iPad and it looks a bit jarring. Not sure if it’s like that on a computer.

on the recipe page, the “jump to recipe” option is AWESOME i do love the history, but if im cooking something again, that button is insanely useful

Looks great!

It's really nice! I don't have any suggestions, really. I clicked around randomly and it all seemed to work. The layout makes sense and looks clean. I like all the recipes and the ingredients listings.

Dope. Good job Max Miller!

Looking great so far! Some ideas for a version 2: it'd be lovely to be able to browse recipes by ingredient or by the book(s) they're sourced from. That said, I recognize this is a *lot* of data entry! What you have right now is still a lovely resource, but you did ask for feedback so :)

If there was anyone worth investing in, it’s you. The moment I came across your channel I knew it was going to turn into something big. Using YouTube as your platform is the best idea since you can use 100% of your creativity and talent. I’m so proud of you two. Cheers and congratulations on this milestone.

The functionality is great, although on mobile, if you get part way down a page like ingredients, you have to scroll all the way up or down to navigate elsewhere. A shortcut button to the top would be super useful. Either that or have the top menu locked to the top of the screen all the time.

Tis bookmarked and favorited

That's awesome!!! Can't wait to explore the new website!