Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow Do You Steal A Truckload Of Tequila? (Salad Spinner Year In Review)
Episode 844
From a moisturizer made of beef fat, to bartenders hating on Gen Z, to tariffs, a lot happened this year. (How do you get away with stealing 100,000 …
9 months ago
Patti LaBelle Says She Cooks Better Than She Sings (Reheat)
Episode 843
Patti LaBelle is not just a music icon, she’s also a food icon. She’s written best-selling cookbooks, hosted a food TV show, and even cooked for Elto…
9 months, 1 week ago
Samin Nosrat’s Success Looked Different Behind Closed Doors
Episode 842
It’s been eight years since Samin Nosrat published her smash-hit cookbook, Salt Fat Acid Heat. She says her whole adult life was on a trajectory towa…
9 months, 1 week ago
Can We Go Viral On TikTok? (Reheat)
Episode 841
TikTok is the wild west of the food media world. It’s less professionalized than Instagram and YouTube, and it holds the promise of virality from the…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Seed Oils Are The Latest Battle In The Cooking Fat Wars
Episode 840
In America, the cooking fat you use — lard, butter, shortening, oil — has long been a signifier of health, virtue, and class. What is it about fat th…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
What Should Be The Last Cheese On Earth? (Reheat)
Episode 839
This week we’re reheating two call-in episodes from 2015. First: Two Sporkful listeners call in to debate the best way to make enchiladas: flat (lasa…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
What’s It Like To Cook With A Brain Injury?
Episode 838
How does a traumatic brain injury affect the way you cook and eat? Filmmaker Cheryl Green, who has a brain injury, satirizes her own experiences in t…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Hosting Thanksgiving With Amy Sedaris (Reheat)
Episode 837
Amy Sedaris offers advice on dealing with family members who are drunk or confrontational at the holidays. Plus, Robert Krulwich (formerly of Radiola…
10 months ago
The Last Meal Roy Wood Jr. Made For His Father
Episode 836
Roy Wood Jr. has long used humor to discuss topical issues and get at deeper truths. As a correspondent for The Daily Show, and now as the host of Ha…
10 months ago
In The Test Kitchen With Dan Souza & Lisa McManus
Episode 835
Today we’re bringing you a conversation Dan had on the new podcast In the Test Kitchen, from America’s Test Kitchen. Hosts Dan Souza and Lisa McManus…
10 months, 1 week ago