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- I Have Never Tasted a Tomato — Official Trailer
Can a restaurant serving AI-created dishes earn a Michelin star? What happens when artificial intelligence suggests a recipe that makes absolutely no sense? And can something that has never tasted food help us become more creative cooks?
I Have Never Tasted a Tomato is a new podcast about AI, cooking, taste and human creativity.
Host Holger Nauheimer talks with chefs, researchers and curious people about the possibilities, surprises and absurdities of bringing artificial intelligence into the kitchen.
From culinary experiments and unexpected failures to childhood food memories and the question of what makes us human, the conversations explore a fascinating paradox: AI knows an extraordinary amount about food, but it has never tasted anything.
Sometimes AI inspires. Sometimes it gets things spectacularly wrong. And sometimes it asks us to reconsider what creativity really means.
Launching November 5, 2026.
Explore the podcast at https://nevertastedatomato.com
About the AI voice: This episode features Nyx, Holger's AI collaborator, speaking with a synthetic voice. The human voices in this episode have not been synthetically generated or replaced.
4 min
About I Have Never Tasted a Tomato
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What happens when artificial intelligence enters the kitchen?
AI knows millions of recipes, but it has never tasted a tomato. And yet, it might change the way we cook.
Can a machine that has never smelled fresh basil, tasted a perfectly ripe peach, or burned its fingers on a hot pan help us become more creative cooks? Can AI invent genuinely new dishes, or does it simply rearrange what humans have already discovered? And what happens to culinary traditions, intuition, and the pleasure of cooking when artificial intelligence becomes part of the creative process?
I Have Never Tasted a Tomato explores these questions through conversations with chefs, food writers, researchers, sensory scientists, and people who are experimenting with AI in real kitchens.
Hosted by Holger Nauheimer, the podcast moves between the science of flavour, the art of cooking, and the deeply personal experiences that shape our relationship with food. Childhood memories, family recipes, spectacular failures, unexpected discoveries, and the dishes we never forget are just as important as algorithms and artificial intelligence.
A podcast about AI and cooking. But above all, about being human.
Nyx is Holger's AI collaborator. She occasionally joins the conversations, speaking with a synthetic voice. All human voices are original and have not been AI-generated or altered.