Adam Ragusea

Adam Conrad Ragusea is an American YouTuber who creates videos about food recipes, food science, and culinary culture. Until 2020, Ragusea was a professor of journalism at Mercer University.[3][4]

Adam Ragusea
Ragusea in 2022
Personal information
Born (1982-03-22) March 22, 1982
Pennsylvania, U.S.[1]
OccupationYouTuber
Professor of journalism (former)
Websitewww.adamragusea.com
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2010–present (first started producing food videos in 2017)
GenreCooking, science journalism
Subscribers1.8 million[2]
Total views417 million[2]
100,000 subscribers 2019
1,000,000 subscribers 2020
Updated: January 21, 2022

Personal life

Ragusea grew up in central Pennsylvania. He is of Italian descent and his grandfather worked as an iceman.[5] As a child, he attended Park Forest Elementary School in State College[6] and visited nearby Hersheypark each summer which developed his fondness for Hershey chocolate.[1] Ragusea graduated from Penn State University.[7] He lived in Macon, Georgia with his wife, novelist Lauren Morrill, and their two children[8] before moving to Knoxville, Tennessee, in mid-2021.[9]

Career

Journalism

Adam Ragusea was a journalist in residence at Mercer University from 2014 until February 2020.[10][11] Ragusea taught introductory and advanced journalism, and media production classes while still a professor at Mercer.[12] Before becoming a professor, Ragusea worked as a reporter for NPR and its affiliates. He was the longtime host of The Pub, a trade podcast for people in public media.[13] He is listed as the Georgia Public Broadcasting Macon Bureau Chief and host of the local Morning Edition. Prior to working at GPB, Ragusea worked at WBUR-FM in Boston, and WFIU in Indiana.[14]

YouTube

Ragusea created his YouTube channel on February 12, 2010, and his first videos were food recipes, made with the intention of sharing with his friends.[15] His videos began to garner attention for his "straight-to-the-point" style that is influenced by his background in journalism.[16] He also cites SpongeBob SquarePants as an influence on his style of comedy, describing it as "edgy but fundamentally ... just a beam of bright sunshine."[17]

Music

Ragusea created "The Sisko Song", as well as several other original pieces of music for the podcasts The Greatest Generation and The Greatest Discovery. In 2016, Ragusea spoke to Vox about a "Christmas chord" present in many Christmas songs, including "All I Want For Christmas Is You".[18] This led to him being known to some people as the "Mariah Carey Christmas chord guy".[19]

References
  1. Ragusea, Adam (August 3, 2020). "Why Hershey bars taste like vomit (and I love them)". YouTube. I grew up in central Pennsylvania not far from where Milton Hershey lived, there's an amusement park there called Hershey Park.
  2. "About Adam Ragusea". YouTube.
  3. Thomas, June (June 8, 2020). "How Journalist Adam Ragusea Became a YouTube Star". Slate Magazine. Retrieved July 2, 2021.
  4. "How YouTuber Adam Ragusea Learned to Talk to the Camera | Working". Slate Magazine. June 7, 2020. Retrieved July 2, 2021.
  5. Ragusea, Adam (July 20, 2020). "How people kept stuff cold before refrigerators)". YouTube. Grandpa Ragusea was an iceman, and iceman is an ancient occupation.
  6. Ragusea, Adam (April 22, 2021). "French bread pizza (I seriously made a video about...)". YouTube. Come on, how are you going to be snobby about that, that is good food. I don't care it it's decended from a frozen dinner that they gave us at Park Forest Elementary on Fridays in 1989, that is good pizza!
  7. Ragusea, Adam (September 28, 2020). "How flash-freezing preserves food quality". YouTube. That's doctor John Coupland, a food science professor at my alma mater Penn State
  8. "About".
  9. "Adam Ragusea on Instagram: "Greetings from Tennessee! Folks have been asking, so I figured I should clear things up and confirm that we did move to Knoxville a few…"". Instagram. Retrieved February 1, 2022.
  10. "How Adam Ragusea's journalism background helps him in his YouTube career". YouTube. February 12, 2020. Archived from the original on August 30, 2020. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  11. Rammohan, Janani P. (July 4, 2019). "Food videos bring Mercer professor millions of views". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Archived from the original on June 11, 2020. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  12. "The CCJ Team - Mercer University". Archived from the original on September 9, 2016. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  13. "Press Publish 13: Adam Ragusea on podcasts and the pessimist's case for public radio's future". Nieman Lab. August 19, 2015. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
  14. "Adam Ragusea". Georgia Public Broadcasting. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
  15. "Former professor quit his job at Mercer to become a full-time YouTube creator". WMAZ-TV. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
  16. "He was teaching at Mercer when a video he posted on YouTube went viral. Now, he's a full-time YouTube creator". WMAZ. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
  17. Ragusea, Adam (July 2, 2019). "The professor that went viral". YouTube. Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Where I take a lot of inspiration from oddly enough is Spongebob Squarepants ... that show is like there's so much acidity in it, like ... it's edgy but fundamentally it's still just a beam of bright sunshine, you know, I want to be Spongebob upon the world.
  18. The chord that makes Christmas music sound so Christmassy, retrieved February 1, 2022
  19. Ragusea, Adam (December 21, 2020). "How I became the Mariah Carey Christmas chord guy (and why I hate it)". YouTube.
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