Weekly Tasty trends digest for your content team in Slack

Every Monday at 9am New York time, run a weekly "what's trending on Tasty this week" digest and post it into our content team's Slack channel so our food writers and social team start the week with a shortlist of riffable recipes.

Step 1: pull the feed. Call Tasty's List Feeds operation with our timezone in +hhmm format (for example -0500 for New York). That returns the latest homepage feed items, which is the trending mix we want to riff on.

Step 2: editorial pick. Use your judgement to pick the three or four most distinctive recipes from that feed. Vary cuisine across the picks, skip anything that looks like a near-duplicate of last week's picks, and favour recipes with strong visual potential (great hero photo, eye-catching colour, clear hook). Do not just take the top three off the top of the feed.

Step 3: optional remix angle. For each pick, optionally call Tasty's List Similar Recipes operation if seeing nearby recipes helps you suggest a sharper "remix angle" the content team could write about. Skip this call for picks where the angle is already obvious.

Step 4: post the digest. Use the Slack Bot Send a Message operation to post a single nicely-formatted message into our content team's Slack channel. For each recipe include the title, the image, the prep time, the Tasty link, and a one-line content-angle suggestion such as "summer twist on a comfort classic" or "5-ingredient TikTok hook". Use Slack's mrkdwn formatting and keep everything in one message (not a thread). Keep the layout tight enough that the whole digest reads in under 30 seconds.

Make the Slack channel, the timezone, the number of picks, and the editorial brief easy to edit later so the marketing lead can tune it without rebuilding the workflow.