It's been a long time coming: Alison Roman will soon be on your TV screen.

A new partnership with Tastemade will bring Roman’s beloved digital series “Home Videos” to television. The series, which has only been available on YouTube, debuts on the Tastemade streaming channel on Oct. 2. (This comes several years after Roman had filmed multiple episodes for a CNN show, which didn’t end up airing amid the streaming platform’s dissolution in 2022).

Roman, who is well known for a wide variety of viral recipes like “The Stew” and “The Cookies,” is one of the foremost voices in modern cooking discourse, and is personally one of my absolute favorites within the entire, wide-ranging landscape.

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Roman's energy, which comes across equally in both written and video form, is loose, convivial, casual — the perfect pal to have in the kitchen to help calmly, kindly walk you through a recipe, no matter if immensely simple or outrageously challenging.

For me, this energy is perfectly encapsulated in her Thanksgiving 2019 YouTube video, which was equal parts entertaining, funny and genuinely informative. Not to mention, packed with stellar recipes and top-tier tips.

(Another early exposure to Roman was her “Lemons” book within the Short Stack collection, which is one of my favorite single-ingredient focused cooking series of all time. Roman’s book was just perfect, distilling every aspect of the lemon and then guiding the reader through the bevy of ways the citrus can be used, both........

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