Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow Long Should You Wait For The First Bite?
Dan Pelosi and Negin Farsad join Dan to settle your food disputes! One couple can’t agree on when they should take the first bite of a meal: when the food is fresh and piping hot, or once they’re sit…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
The Sporkful Dating Game! (Reheat)
Could listening to The Sporkful be the fertile soil out of which true love grows? We put out the call for Sporkful listeners looking for love, and hundreds of you responded. This week, we listen in o…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
On The Hunt For The Elusive Pawpaw
An email from Sara Bir set us off on an adventure. She’s an author and recipe developer who’s obsessed with pawpaws, the largest fruit native to North America. “Pawpaws are tricky in the kitchen,” Sa…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
How To Be The Best Dinner Party Guest (Live)
Casey Elsass is known as the “cookbook doula” because he’s helped birth nearly 20 cookbooks, as a ghostwriter or co-writer. Now, Casey has published his very first solo cookbook, What Can I Bring? Re…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
We Invent An Ice Cream Sandwich
For years, Dan has kept a Google Doc of ideas for ice cream flavors and ice cream sandwiches. But nobody asked him for it. Then, the folks at Heap’s Ice Cream in Brooklyn asked Dan to collaborate on …
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
From Flurry To Blizzard: Ranking Weather-Themed Desserts With A Meteorologist (Reheat)
There are a lot of desserts named after severe weather phenomena, but not all of them are created equal. We asked Tornado Alley's top meteorologist, Gary England, to help us rank some of these desser…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
2 Chefs And A Lie: Normal Gossip Edition
We’re back with our annual game show: Two Chefs And A Lie! But this year, things are a bit different. Dan isn’t playing — he’s the emcee! And our contestant is Rachelle Hampton, host of the podcast N…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Marc Maron’s Drug Of Choice Is Sausage Gravy And Biscuits (Reheat)
Dan and WTF host Marc Maron have been arguing about eating for over a decade. This week they revisit old feuds and start news ones, sparring over temperature contrast in sandwiches, the merits of mel…
Published on 3 months ago
Are Carbs In Europe Better For You?
Some people say that when they eat pasta in the US it makes them feel like garbage, but when they eat it in Italy they feel great. Is that legit? What does the science say? Also, why is the food at m…
Published on 3 months ago
This Podcast Contains MSG (Reheat)
Fifty years after the panic about "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" began, we explore how faulty science and perceptions of race and class contributed to the making of a food myth that persists today. An…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago