A Very New Jersey Whiskey Mystery
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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 of Cooking Channel's You're Eating It Wrong and the book Eat More Bett...
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20 of 339 episodesDuff Goldman Has Learned To Live With His Fear (Reheat)
When Food Network star Duff Goldman got into baking elaborate cakes, he was just trying to pay the bills while pursuing his real dream of ro...
Was Halloween Candy Ever Actually Poisoned?
On Halloween night in 1974, an eight-year-old boy in the Houston suburbs got Pixy Stix laced with cyanide. He wasn’t the only one. So did fo...
When Is It OK To Send Food Back? With Kenji López-Alt (Reheat)
This week we have a Reheat double-header. First up, from way down in the crevices of that deep freezer: a throwdown over proper buffet prior...
When Wedge Salad Becomes A Wedge Issue With Gail Simmons & Ayesha Nurdjaja
Is a wedge salad worth the effort of using a knife to eat it? Should you take home the unopened beer you brought to a dinner party? And does...
The Bucatini Dialogues: A Debate About Pasta Shapes (Reheat)
“Literally all pasta shapes are wonderful except bucatini. Bucatini can go get effed.” Francis Lam’s strongly-worded tweet inspired Dan to o...
Why Are There So Many Kids At Breweries?
The craft brewery used to be a place for self-proclaimed beer nerds to sample the hot new IPA. Now, young kids, toddlers, and even infants t...
Yotam Ottolenghi Says To Bake A Cake So You Eat Less Sugar (Reheat)
Yotam Ottolenghi is an Israeli-British chef famous for getting people to eat more vegetables. But now, he's making the case for sugar. On th...
When Will Indian Food Be American? With Priya Krishna & Madhur Jaffrey (Live)
In 1973, Madhur Jaffrey penned An Invitation to Indian Cooking and introduced many Americans to Indian cuisine. More than 50 years later, Pr...
Should You Put Ice In Your Milk? With Brittany Luse & Eric Eddings (Reheat)
Should you eat fast food on vacation, or should every meal be at a special local place? Is soup bar food? Does ice belong in milk?
Can You Be Body Positive And Still Want To Lose Weight?
The fat acceptance movement has spent decades fighting weight stigma and calling for equal rights for fat people in all areas of life. As th...
Comedian Nicole Byer Sees Her First Shrimp (Reheat)
Comedian Nicole Byer hosts the cooking competition show Nailed It! on Netflix. It’s family-friendly, but that doesn’t stop her from deployin...
Live: The Great Yogurt Feud
If someone asked you to name the country that dominates American yogurt aisles, you would undoubtedly say Greece. Thick Greek yogurt makes u...
Traveling Back In Time For Coconut Cake (Reheat)
Dan goes on an adventure around Los Angeles, starting at the airport. Where is he going? He doesn't know.
Why Did Carla Lalli Write A Cookbook About Her Divorce?
Thirty years into her career as a chef and cookbook author, Carla Lalli is releasing a book many people told her she shouldn’t write. It’s c...
Why Won’t Anyone Invite Michael Pollan To Dinner? (Reheat)
You know that friend of yours who rails against the evils of high fructose corn syrup? The one who’s obsessed with where every single morsel...
After His Father’s Murder, Carlos Frías Found Solace In Miami’s Ventanitas
Fernando Frías was a successful cafe and restaurant owner in Havana, but when Fidel Castro came to power, the government nationalized Fernan...
"No Murder, Yes Pork Chops," Says Comic Negin Farsad (Reheat)
Negin Farsad loves to negotiate. And when it comes to negotiating, nothing is off-limits — even religious law. "I feel like Allah would be l...
Does The World Need A Better Tomato?
In New Jersey, the tomato is king. Almost a century ago, a scientist at Rutgers University developed a variety that became the tomato that l...
The Single Mom Who Changed Myrtle Beach Dining Gets Her Due
When Dan had to plan his mom’s big 80th birthday dinner, he knew just where to take the whole family: Myrtle Beach, SC. The group of ten cel...