The Sporkful

    We obsess about food to learn more about people. The Sporkful isn't for foodies, it's for eaters. Hosted by Dan Pashman, who's also the inventor of the new pasta shape cascatelli. James Beard and Webby Award winner for Best Food Podcast. A Stitcher Production.

  • Reheat: These Chefs Want You To Talk Politics At Dinner

  • A Salty Medical Mystery

  • Reheat: Can A Restaurant Be For Everyone?

  • How Judith Jones Changed Cookbooks Forever

  • Reheat: The Rice Cooker That Changed Jake Cohen’s Life

  • Who Really Was James Beard?

  • Reheat: The Pasta That Won Obama Re-Election

  • Bobby Flay Wins A Lot — But Also Knows How To Lose

  • Reheat: A Very Trini Punjabi Diwali (with DJ Rekha)

  • “Super Size Me,” Twenty Years Later

  • Reheat: Jet Tila Cooks Pad Thai For 20,000 People

  • Ed Gamble Is More Than A Diabetic Comedian (Live)

  • Reheat: What Rock Star Sammy Hagar And Chef Jacques Pepin Have In Common

  • How Cascatelli Ended Up In A German Museum

  • Preserving Jewish Food And Pushing It Forward, With Joan Nathan And Jeremy Salamon

  • Reheat: A Brief History Of Cereal And Milk

  • The Inside Story Of How Taco Bell Created The Big Cheez-It

  • The Enslaved Man Who Taught Jack Daniel How To Make Whiskey

  • Reheat: Why You Should Listen To Your Food

  • The Pashman Family Takes Your Calls 2024

  • Hitting The Taco Trail With José Ralat

  • Reheat: Beyond Pot Brownies (with Radiolab's Jad Abumrad)

  • Bea Ojakangas, From Finnish Food To Pizza Rolls

  • When Is A Taco Legally A Sandwich?

  • Reheat: Christopher Kimball Finds Pleasure In Pain

  • A Car Crash Saved Jameela Jamil’s Life

  • We Can Do Better Than “Obligation Salads”

  • Reheat: How To Be A Good Ice Cream Citizen

  • When Celery Was More Expensive Than Caviar

  • Cookbooks That Need ‘The Grandma Disclaimer’ (Live)

  • Reheat: Confessions of a Ballpark Food Vendor

  • 2 Chefs And A Lie: Deconstructed Coney Dog Edition

  • Why Does Gluttony Get Such A Bad Rap?

  • Searching For The Donut King Part 2

  • Searching For The Donut King Part 1

  • Molly Baz Has Confidence In Her Taste

  • Reheat: In Search Of Rosa Parks' Pancakes

  • Yia Vang Says Hmong Food Is His Family's Legacy

  • Book Tour 2: How’d You Get So Good At Failure?

  • Reheat: Andy Richter Bought A Midlife Crisis Fridge

  • Book Tour 1: Do You Really Need That Many Recipe Tests?

  • How You Can Taste Food Like A Flavor Chemist

  • Reheat: Why Roy Wood Jr. Sees Pros To Bad Service And Confederate Flags

  • When Mom Forgets Her Favorite Foods, With Michele Norris

  • Bridgerton’s Claudia Jessie Likes Life At A Low Simmer

  • Reheat: What Dumplings Can’t Fix

  • Bringing Georgia O’Keeffe To Life With Her Recipes

  • benny blanco Says Apple Fritters Are Better Than Sex

  • Reheat: Jim Gaffigan Lies To His Kids About Food

  • Priya Krishna Writes The Kids Cookbook She Wished She'd Had

  • Alyse Whitney Brings Big Dip Energy

  • Reheat: LeVar Burton Even Reads Recipes Dramatically

  • Jewish Food Is More Than Matzoh Balls

  • In Defense Of Picky Eating

  • Reheat: Guy Fieri Hates That Flame Shirt

  • Anything’s Pastable 4 | A Cookbook Is Born

  • Anything’s Pastable 3 | Searching For A Spark

  • Anything’s Pastable 2 | Eat Sauté Love

  • Anything’s Pastable 1 | Every Grain Of Salt

  • Gary Gulman’s Ice Cream Joke Was A Cry For Help

  • Deep Dish With Sohla And Ham: Bagels

  • Can A Restaurant Makeover Make Diners Spend More?

  • Can A Stanley Drinking Cup Really Withstand A Car Fire?

  • Deep Dish With Sohla And Ham: Tacos Al Pastor

  • Undercover Dining With NY Times Restaurant Critic Pete Wells

  • Why Hibachi Gets Complicated

  • Deep Dish With Sohla And Ham: Tteokbokki

  • Deep Dish With Sohla And Ham: Delta Tamales

  • The Hidden Battle Over Grocery Store Shelves

  • Reheat: A Soda Jerk And A Mormon Walk Into A Podcast

  • Ozempic Isn’t So Great For Fat People, Says Aubrey Gordon

  • Reheat: Two Books For The Food Science Nerd In Your Life

  • New Year’s Food Resolutions 2024

  • Reheat: Samin Nosrat Drinks Milk With Her Chocolate Soufflé

  • How Do Michelin Stars Actually Work?

  • Rise Of The Foodie Bro (The Year In Food 2023)

  • Reheat: Comic Maria Bamford Risked Her Life For Ice Cream

  • What Westerners Misunderstand About Chinese Cuisine

  • The Grandma Chefs Of Staten Island

  • Reheat: The Last Sporkful Thanksgiving Special Ever

  • The Drinking Coach Has A Cocktail For You

  • How To Make A Battle-Ready Pizza

  • Sohla El-Waylly Went To Culinary School To “Prove Everyone Wrong”

  • Big News About Dan’s Cookbook!

  • Rediscovering Nigeria By Becoming American

  • Can Bass Pro Shops Teach Grocery Stores Something?

  • Detroit Through A Chinese Restaurant Window

  • School Lunch Triumphs And Tragedies With Kenji López-Alt

  • Natasha Leggero And Moshe Kasher Give Dan Marriage Advice

  • What “Couscousgate” Tells Us About French Food

  • A Chili Crisp Cookbook And An Ode To Shabbat

  • How To Create A New Apple

  • A Garlic Dispute 20 Years In The Making

  • A Forager's Life In Virginia

  • Searching For The Pickle King

  • Instant Pot’s Bankruptcy And Thai Cheese “Burgers”

  • Tommy Pico’s Food History Wasn’t Lost. It Was Stolen.

  • Why Barbie’s First Dreamhouse Didn’t Have A Kitchen

  • Why Ice Is This Summer's Hottest Trend

  • 2 Chefs And A Lie: Name That Mustard Edition

  • The Enslaved Chefs At Monticello Who Created American Cuisine

  • The Food-Obsessed Subculture Of The Appalachian Trail

  • Zarna Garg Had To Tell Jokes For Her Supper

  • Inside The World Of Food Smuggling

  • After A Lifetime Of Eating, Gail Simmons Is Still Hungry

  • The Secret To Grace Church’s Lobster Rolls

  • Comic Jamie Loftus’s Hot Dog Summer

  • Is Protecting Abalone Also Destroying A Native Tradition?

  • The Musical History Of Jelly

  • Can ChatGPT Write An Episode Of The Sporkful?

  • Meet The Banh Mi Innovators

  • Squishy Or Crunchy? Why Texture Matters

  • Bill Nye, The FOOD Science Guy!

  • Are You Eating Chipotle Bowls Wrong?

  • For Ghetto Gastro, Food Is A Weapon

  • The Brewer Rewriting The Story of Beer In Iran

  • Raina’s Disordered Eating, One Year Later

  • Should Fine Dining Exist?

  • The Last Big Mac In Iceland

  • Alan And Arlene Alda Bonded Over A Fallen Rum Cake

  • A French Chef And Cincinnati: A Love Story

  • Mission: ImPASTAble 9 | New Shapes From Old Places

  • Mission: ImPASTAble 8 | The Pursuit Of Viscoelasticity

  • The Hardest Beer Test In The World

  • Mission: ImPASTAble 7 (Update) | Turning The Ship

  • Mission: ImPASTAble 6 (Update) | The Future of Cascatelli

  • Mission: ImPASTAble 5 | A Shape Is Born

  • Mission: ImPASTAble 4 | Where The Ruffles Meet The Road

  • Mission: ImPASTAble 3 | What Would Juan Guzmán Do?

  • Mission: ImPASTAble 2 | Slanting The Floors

  • Mission: ImPASTAble 1 | Spaghetti Sucks

  • Mission: ImPASTAble Trailer

  • Update: Inside The Turmoil At Bon Appétit

  • A Reckoning At Bon Appetit

  • When White People Say Plantation

  • Trailer: Welcome to The Sporkful

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