THE FIRST RECIPIENTS OF The Podcast of the Year and Person of the Year Awards have been announced by the Portable Media Expo and Podcasting Conference Awards Committee.

Eat Feed, a podcast from creator and host Anne Bramley has received the Podcast of the Year Award. Anne’s unique content mixture of food history and seasonal cooking interviews has earned the podcast a growing and loyal listening audience. As a teenager, Anne ran a baking business out of her mother’s house and later combined her practical experience into an intellectual approach to food. In 2001, she won the Jane Grigson Trust bursary for food studies and is currently finishing her Ph.D. in English at the University of Chicago where she studies Renaissance food and drink while she writes “The Groaning Board” food column for Renaissance Magazine and chocolate reviews at Seventy Percent, a website for chocolate connoisseurs. The Eat Feed podcast can be found at www.EatFeed.com.

Congratulations Annie!

Doug Kaye, the creator, host and executive producer of the popular technology podcast website IT Conversations, has received The Person of the Year Award. In 2005, in an effort to produce a greater amount of quality content for his listeners, Doug brought together a diverse team of volunteer podcasters to assist in recording, editing and producing audio sessions from technology conferences and events around the country. (Read the full story)

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