Thank you Dan for your episode on GLP-1s, food love and struggles with weight. I felt/feel exactly like your guest and had been struggling for a long time with whether or not I should start taking medication to help me. The feeling that I should be strong enough to lose weight without “cheating” was real. This interview helped me to see that it’s okay to get help. Thank you. It’s been life-changing for me so far. I will continue to be a regular listener. Keep up the good work.

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I love that Dan has a variety of guests. He doesn’t shy away from tough topics. It’s a great balance of humor and compassion.

Every time I go to listen i get spammed with 3 minutes of ads every 5 minutes. I don’t care about quince or bertolies tomato sauce. I click off every time it auto plays. Other wise the actual podcast is good.

Need more consistent new content

I have been looking forward to listening to each week’s Sporkful for years. When I reflect on what makes this podcast so enjoyable for me, I keep coming back to Dan Pashman’s uncanny ability to give an amazing interview. Dan asks insightful and thoughtful questions. He interjects the perfect amount of his own experiences. He sounds like he loves a good and genuine laugh but certainly does not shy away from important and hard discussions. What a pro! Keep up the amazing conversations!

I have listened for 6 years, and am unfollowing now. In hosting Judy Gold, you are platforming a person who is pro-genocide and thinks her marginalized identity as an LGBTQ+ person is a permission slip to tear down other oppressed groups.

Made Me Cry. What a horrible culture she lived above.

Every week I look forward to Monday so I can listen to this podcast Dan. You have made me appreciate and understand food so much more now I look forward to having dinner every night thanks to you and the sporkfull team. Thanks a million!!!

Well this episode really was a shocker. I love salt and salty dishes, so a low sodium diet would be a real issue for me. I could give up sweet no problem but not my salt. Glad to hear she is doing well now. Noah

I really enjoyed the episode with Alan Alda. The things I don’t like is Dan has a tendency to virtue signal and pat himself on his back. I would like to hear more pure stories about food and less about politics. Overall it’s a good show with some terrific concepts.

I love Dan Pashman and I’ve always enjoyed his contributions on a different podcast that truly is about food and cooking, so I was excited about him starting this podcast. But after several episodes, I was just disappointed that every episode revolved around some gimmicky social media influencer. Social media is a big corny popularity contest that is kinda like adults opting to go back to high school, and interviewing influencers is just like choosing to talk to the most popular kids instead of people that have spent years learning and developing their craft. I know the majority of people watch the “popular kids” all day long on their phones, so this is for you you’ll probably enjoy listening to them. For me personally I would love this podcast if it was less influencers and more actual cooks, chefs, and credible food writers.

I like Dan and the show in general, but I’m so tired of hearing him talk about cascatelli like it’s revolutionizing the pasta world. Hearing about what goes into the design and manufacturing of pasta was an interesting miniseries. I even did the initial preorder and have picked it up a few times when I see it in the grocery store. It’s fine, but please stop acting like it’s anything more than radiatore cut into 3 pieces 🙄

I really enjoy listening to people talk about food(I know, I’m weird) and this one is one of the best!!!

I’m not always interested in the name of the topic, but every episode offers something compelling. Love the pasta updates in particular.

As a Jewish person, I’m against the genocide. Please make an episode on Palestinian food. 🍉 I recently learned that Israel appropriated a lot of Palestinian foods and I think it would be really nice (as a fellow Jewish person) to share that.

Adding politics into your September 15th episode is intolerable.

Excellent interview with very droll and entertaining food writer

This show is aging beautifully. The past few have been great, also… that bumper music that’s a little upbeat, and used quite a bit in the Carbs episode is 🤌🏾. Compliments to the chefs.

I want to see a beef Wellington episode but love the show

I have listened to Sporkful for several years. And while I don’t listen to every single episode, there’s rarely an episode I do listen to that I don’t enjoy. Some are very moving. Anyway, I’ve often been annoyed by the 2-3min ad breaks, especially for a podcast that started making money and seems to be doing quite well in the pasta game. And then I checked in today and discovered there was a SIX MINUTE ad break!! Ridiculous. Sound off if I have it way wrong but I feel like I’m tuned into morning network television with this content:ad ratio.

Taylor Ham is the best brand of porkroll .. its like beer vs Budweiser !

I grew up going to Texas to visit my brother and his family. The Czech stop was a must on every road trip and I just recently introduced my family to it on a stop to Austin for my nephew’s wedding. I started following for the pasta and am a proud cookbook owner, but episodes like this keep me coming back!

My mom brought Hydox cookies home instead of Oreos only once. The Hydrox were disgusting. Sorry

Okay first y'all stop complaining about the reheats. I love them because i never got to listen to the old episodes; i have no access to them in any other way. Also, they don't take away from any of the new episodes...the reheats are just extra. Second, please just SKIP THE ADS. It's not that hard. Podcasting isn't a super lucrative business and the ads help to keep this going. This is a solid podcast.

The takeaway from rewatching supersize me again was that it shamed fat people. Quote from the episode, “I believe people can be healthy at any weight”. Come on now let’s do better.

I loved this book so much I loved this interview and was crying again when she was reading I learn so much from Dans great show

It's undoubtedly a lot of work to produce the show, which I lije. But there hace been way too many reheats lately, which makes the podcast seem stale.

Always a nice listen. Love Dan.

The episode re recipes lying about caramalizing onions is glib and wrong. The cited guest can’t cook. Yes, caramalizing onions for onion soup takes a long time. BUT… it is easy to caramalize onions quickly in oil at a high heat. I don’t know why the guest had such a hard time. Yellow or red onions get brown in oil at high heat get brown and sweet in under ten minutes. You just need to keep stirring so they don’t burn. It isn’t the deep flavor of slow cooked onions but it is caramelized. The recipes cited do not lie. Note, for example the recent Birman video re making Amartrciano for lunch. He fried diced onions in bacon fat. They browned in about five minutes.

I have listened to this pod for 8+ years. It makes me sad that the episodes have so much less actual material now. This has more commercials than any other podcast I listen to. And many repeat episodes. I just listened to the 2025 Food Resolutions, an episode I usually really enjoy, but it’s just a long ad, a few short minutes of new material, then another repeat episode. Ughhhhhhh.

Nice perfect mix

If you like listening to old episodes(called reheats) and commercials, this is for you.

One of my very favorite podcasts. Love the deep dive into a wide variety of topics and I always feel like I learned something.

I used to love listening to the show. But I'm so sick and tired of all the commercials. More so this week than ever before. I'm tired of one or two or three or sets of even six commercials in a row just to listen to the simple great little podcast. The commercials are also way way too loud and I can't stand it anymore so I'm out!

Dan and company are always digging deep, I appreciate the work they do.

This podcast is just ok but it loses 1.5 stars for too many advertisements and another 1.5 stars for glorifying genocidal ethnostates

Dan is like someone I know and love having conversations with. I have learned so much about others’ cultural culinary experiences. I play this podcast in the background while doing boring chores and working or when I need to hear something mostly positive and uplifting.

I can’t stand the host’s goddamn laugh. Literally takes up half the show and each time it’s explosive and ridiculous. Had to unfollow just for that reason alone. Sorry!

Nice show but lately they have ramped up the amount of advertisements so there are ~10 minutes of ads in every episode. It’s become hard to listen to. Also Dan is annoying.

The episode with Ted "Confessions of a Ballpark Food Vendor"made me laugh out loud all by myself- so much wit! And valid questioning of the nuts to popcorn ratio in Cracker Jack (REALLY? For a million years the song has said Cracker Jacks- we've ALL said Cracker Jacks, get over it)... Thank you, Dan and Ted for the much needed laugh!

Original gefilte fish was invented in order to prevent people from being mechal’el Shabbos by doing the issur of בורר,separating.so instead, before Shabbos They would take out the insides and bones and grind them up, stuff it back in and then boil it. Eventually someone came up with the idea to not stuff it back in and instead roll it into chunks like matzo balls and boil them instead. “Gefilt” is Yiddish for stuffed, hence “Gefilte fish” or stuffed fish. (PS) I’m not joking #Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky Rules!

I really enjoy how this podcast is edited and formatted for the listeners. Many podcasts just conduct an interview and only edit out long pauses or ‘ums’ before publishing. But this format puts up the response of the guest and Dan Pashman will edit-in his own analysis and summary later. I guess it’s like reading a research/analysis article rather than a typical back-and-forth interview. I feel as though I’m getting more out of the interview and don’t get bored with filler phrases.

Long-time listener, but the podcast has become a platform for cookbook sales.

Dan is funny, thoughtful, perceptive and great to listen to. I look forward to listening every week!

I know money is important but this podcast is so ridden with commercials I have just lost interest.

I get it, there need to be some commercials, but I had to stop listening, the number is intolerable, I like the show but this is too much, I had to stop listening.

Very interesting deep dive into the cookbook creation. Dan maybe next time don’t interview your family, they seem to like to drag you down.

Title says it all. They are the best!

Sohla and Ham, I love history and food, and the way you have mixed the two, with dashes of humor is genius! I love you two!