Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Hidden Battle Over Grocery Store Shelves
Over the past few years there has been an explosion in new products in grocery stores, from barbecue sauces to nut butters to seltzers. Big brands ha…
2 years, 1 month ago
Reheat: A Soda Jerk And A Mormon Walk Into A Podcast
Ben Abbott wants to pair his meals with drinks, but as a Mormon, he doesn't drink alcohol. So Dan journeys to Galco’s Soda Pop Stop, an offbeat soda …
2 years, 1 month ago
Ozempic Isn’t So Great For Fat People, Says Aubrey Gordon
The most common New Year’s resolution Americans make is to lose weight. For many years, that was Aubrey Gordon’s resolution, too. But one conversatio…
2 years, 1 month ago
Reheat: Two Books For The Food Science Nerd In Your Life
From tortilla chips to tree bark, from fancy cheese to toe cheese, there’s a world of smells all around us that tells us a lot about food, drink, and…
2 years, 2 months ago
New Year’s Food Resolutions 2024
What foods do Sporkful listeners resolve to eat more of in the new year, and why? And what’s Dan’s New Year’s food resolution for 2024? All is reveal…
2 years, 2 months ago
Reheat: Samin Nosrat Drinks Milk With Her Chocolate Soufflé
Samin Nosrat, author of the best-selling cookbook Salt Fat Acid Heat, joins Dan to talk about feeling like an outsider, sexism and pretentiousness in…
2 years, 2 months ago
How Do Michelin Stars Actually Work?
Since the Michelin Guide was created in 1926, it has awarded about 3,000 stars to select restaurants around the world. And while Michelin has a ton o…
2 years, 2 months ago
Rise Of The Foodie Bro (The Year In Food 2023)
We are back with another Salad Spinner, and this time it’s our year end edition! Remember when Starbucks debuted olive oil coffee? Or when Grimace, t…
2 years, 2 months ago
Reheat: Comic Maria Bamford Risked Her Life For Ice Cream
The native Minnesotan explains why a little internal bleeding can't keep her from a treat, and why the way she eats salad is like the way she deals w…
2 years, 2 months ago
What Westerners Misunderstand About Chinese Cuisine
Fuchsia Dunlop has written some of the best known English-language books on Chinese cooking, spending years at a time immersing herself in different …
2 years, 3 months ago