The Sporkful
The Sporkful
Dan Pashman
3x James Beard Award winner. Named one of TIME's 100 Best Podcasts Of All Time. We obsess about food to learn more about people. It's not for foodies, it's for eaters. Hosted by Dan Pashman, inventor of the viral pasta shape cascatelli. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of The Sporkful ad-free. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus.
Should You Put Ice In Your Milk? With Brittany Luse & Eric Eddings (Reheat)
Should you eat fast food on vacation, or should every meal be at a special local place? Is soup bar food? Does ice belong in milk?
Oct 2
34 min
Can You Be Body Positive And Still Want To Lose Weight?
The fat acceptance movement has spent decades fighting weight stigma and calling for equal rights for fat people in all areas of life. As the movement moved online, the idea of body positivity emerged.
Sep 28
35 min
Comedian Nicole Byer Sees Her First Shrimp (Reheat)
Comedian Nicole Byer hosts the cooking competition show Nailed It! on Netflix. It’s family-friendly, but that doesn’t stop her from deploying her raunchy humor with her co-host, the chocolatier Jacques Torres, when the cameras are off. Nicole talks with Dan about the parallels between a restaurant kitchen and comedy club, and why she makes her own favorite cake for her late mom’s birthday.
Sep 25
29 min
The Great Yogurt Feud (Live)
If someone asked you to name the country that dominates American yogurt aisles, you would undoubtedly say Greece. Thick Greek yogurt makes up more than half of all US yogurt sales. But shaking its fist from the shadows is another country that’s even more obsessed with yogurt: Bulgaria.
Sep 21
40 min
Traveling Back In Time For Coconut Cake (Reheat)
Dan goes on an adventure around Los Angeles, starting at the airport. Where is he going? He doesn't know.
Sep 18
40 min
Why Did Carla Lalli Write A Cookbook About Her Divorce?
Thirty years into her career as a chef and cookbook author, Carla Lalli is releasing a book many people told her she shouldn’t write. It’s called Food Is A Feeling, and it’s a lot more personal than her others.
Sep 14
33 min
Why Won’t Anyone Invite Michael Pollan To Dinner? (Reheat)
You know that friend of yours who rails against the evils of high fructose corn syrup? The one who’s obsessed with where every single morsel of their food comes from? Writer Michael Pollan — author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, Food Rules, and Cooked — may have made your friend like that.
Sep 11
36 min
After His Father’s Murder, Carlos Frías Found Solace In Miami’s Ventanitas
Fernando Frías was a successful cafe and restaurant owner in Havana, but when Fidel Castro came to power, the government nationalized Fernando’s businesses and imprisoned him when he tried to leave the country. Eventually he got out, settling near Miami like so many other Cuban expats. Even though Fernando never went back to Cuba, he was always searching for pieces of his homeland in the Cuban-American community in Miami.
Sep 7
36 min
"No Murder, Yes Pork Chops," Says Comic Negin Farsad (Reheat)
Negin Farsad loves to negotiate. And when it comes to negotiating, nothing is off-limits — even religious law. "I feel like Allah would be like, 'Get the pork chop but don't kill anybody,'" the Iranian-American Muslim comedian and host of Fake the Nation says. This week, Negin uses her lamb kebab to school us on campaign finance reform.
Sep 4
30 min
Does The World Need A Better Tomato?
In New Jersey, the tomato is king. Almost a century ago, a scientist at Rutgers University developed a variety that became the tomato that lined grocery store shelves for decades. Now, Rutgers scientists are at it again.
Aug 31
40 min
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