Podcast Episodes

Paella

Season 1 Episode 25

Paella isn't the rice — it's the pan. Or at least, that's where the name comes from. And in Valencia, where the dish was born, there's even a body th…

2 months ago

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Steak au Poivre

Season 1 Episode 24

Five Paris chefs claimed to have invented Steak au Poivre in the early 20th-century. Four of them wrote letters of complaint to the same 1950 culinar…

2 months, 1 week ago

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Beer Can Chicken

Season 1 Episode 23

Beer can chicken is the dish that defies its own science. The most credible American barbecue scientists tested it and concluded the beer in the can …

2 months, 2 weeks ago

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Clams Casino

Season 1 Episode 22

Clams Casino has a paperwork problem. A Rhode Island maître d' named Julius Keller claimed to invent the dish at the Narragansett Pier Casino in 1917…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Tiramisu

Season 1 Episode 21

Tiramisu's origin is contested. One claim puts it in a Treviso restaurant in 1972. Another places it in Friuli, more than a decade earlier. But zabag…

3 months ago

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BBQ Ribs

Season 1 Episode 20

Nobody agrees on barbecue. Memphis wants a dry rub, the Carolinas want vinegar, Kansas City wants a thick sweet sauce, and Texas thinks the conversat…

3 months, 1 week ago

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Jerk Chicken

Season 1 Episode 19

Most cooking woods are fuel. For Jerk Chicken, pimento is the seasoning — it's the smoke, not just the marinade, that gives this dish its defining fl…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

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Drunken Noodles

Season 1 Episode 18

Drunken Noodles is misnamed twice. There's no booze in the dish, and the original version had no noodles either. The only word in the name that's acc…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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Bonus Episode: Garlic

This is a bonus episode that first went out to our premium subscribers in March. We're dropping it in the public feed today so you can hear what bonu…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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Bananas Foster

Season 1 Episode 17

Bananas Foster was invented in a single night in 1951 to honor a man fighting French Quarter police corruption, inspired by an Irish-American breakfa…

3 months, 4 weeks ago

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