Podcast Episodes

Shrimp Scampi

Season 1 Episode 16

The name says shrimp twice — except it doesn't. "Scampi" is Italian for langoustine, making shrimp scampi a translation accident that's been hiding i…

4 months ago

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Carne Asada

Season 1 Episode 15

Carne Asada isn't a recipe — it's a verb, a noun, and an event, and in Northern Mexico and Southern California the gathering IS the dish.

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4 months, 1 week ago

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Carbonnade Flamande

Season 1 Episode 14

A Flemish dish with a French name. A stew named for coal, where nothing is cooked over fire. And a thickening technique that involves floating mustar…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

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Risotto alla Milanese

Season 1 Episode 13

In 15th-century Nuremberg, adulterating saffron was punishable by death. Three centuries later, an apprentice glass maker poured that same spice into…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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Fish and Chips

Season 1 Episode 12

The most iconic dish in British cuisine was invented by a 13-year-old Jewish refugee, popularized by Italian immigrants in Scotland, and served with …

5 months ago

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Chili

Season 1 Episode 11

There are Chili competitions — and there are Chili opinions. One bean and you're disqualified. One wrong take and you'll hear about it. This week, we…

5 months, 1 week ago

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Chicken Marsala

Season 1 Episode 10

A storm forced an English merchant into a Sicilian port in 1773. The wine he discovered there ended up defining one of Italian America's most iconic …

5 months, 2 weeks ago

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Bouillabaisse

Season 1 Episode 9

Bouillabaisse might be the most argued-over dish in the French canon — and in 1980, a group of Marseille restaurateurs signed an actual charter to se…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

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Penne alla Vodka

Season 1 Episode 8

A 1974 Italian cookbook, a Bologna nightclub, and a dish that earned the nickname "disco pasta" — Penne alla Vodka has no codified recipe, no agreed-…

6 months ago

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French Onion Soup

Season 1 Episode 7

Once called the "soup of drunkards," French onion soup was born in the shadow of Les Halles — Paris's legendary night market — where butchers and ari…

6 months, 1 week ago

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