#GenZ · 2022
Sophia Rascoff on #GenZ: Gen Z Food Culture
Sophia Rascoff, Co-Founder, appeared on #GenZ in 2022 — a verified placement booked by Podlink for Recon Food.
Published 2022-08-09
Sophia Rascoff, co-founder of Recon Food, joined host Megan Grace on episode 39 of #GenZ for “Gen Z Food Culture,” published August 9, 2022. Grace frames the episode as a look at Gen Z culture through food. Rascoff describes Recon Food as a social app limited to food — home-cooked meals and meals out with friends — meant to stay free of news, politics, and negativity. She says she founded it about a year and a half before the conversation, during COVID, when her family was home cooking together and Instagram felt like the wrong place to share an ordinary meal. The name, she says, comes from reconnecting with friends and family over a shared love of food. She also says she is still a student and is involved in her school’s entrepreneurship community.
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Key takeaways
- Episode 39 of #GenZ, hosted by Megan Grace, published August 9, 2022.
- Rascoff describes Recon Food as a food-only social app, built to leave out news, politics, and negativity.
- She says the app started during COVID, about a year and a half before the episode, because ordinary meals felt out of place on Instagram.
- She traces the name to reconnecting over food, and says she is still a student.
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