The Sporkful
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The Sporkful
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.
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Why Would You Put A Recipe On Your Gravestone?
Rosie Grant was already obsessed with cemeteries when she came across her first gravestone recipe. The headstone was carved into the shape of an open...
Can I Wipe My Oily Hands On My Legs? (Reheat)
We open the phone lines to settle your most contentious food disputes this week. Eliza wants to wipe her oily hands on her bare legs — is her boyfrien...
What's In Taylor Swift's Signature Cocktail?
Are chicken tenders having a renaissance? Are lit candles in restaurants worth the risk of a few people’s hair catching on fire? And when Taylor Swift...
How Ketchup Got Its Name (Reheat)
Ketchup started as a far different product from what’s on the shelves today. A lot of its evolution can be traced to an early government agency and a...
What Can McDonald’s Tell Us About Black America?
Growing up as a Black kid in Chicago, Dr. Marcia Chatelain says she learned more about Black history from McDonald’s than from her fancy prep school....
Celebrating Shabbat At Wendy’s (Reheat)
Shabbat — the Jewish Sabbath – begins every Friday at sundown with a meal. But in all the years that Jews have been having Shabbat dinner, there’s no...
What’s A Jewish Tavern And House Of Learning?
Josh Foer and Rabbi Charlie Schwartz set out to create a new kind of Jewish space, one that would be welcoming, thought-provoking, delicious, and even...
Is The Future Of Bourbon Female? (Reheat)
Bourbon's growing popularity is changing an industry with deep roots in Kentucky. We travel there to learn what that means for one of the oldest and o...
Why Does Cracker Barrel Keep Making People So Mad?
A few weeks ago, Cracker Barrel announced it was changing its logo — removing the old man in overalls and the barrel, updating the font, and removing...
How To Host Your Own Porkapalooza
This week, we’re ringing in fall tailgating season with a barbecue, featuring three different cuts of pork: ribs, pork chops, and bratwurst. The grill...
Soju, Snacks, And Ramen: How To Party Like A Korean
This week’s show is a raucous Korean-style night out, all on a weekday afternoon. Dan heads to Orion Bar in Brooklyn to learn how to drink like a Kore...
Writer Samantha Irby Is Having Fewer Over-The-Sink Moments (Reheat)
Best-selling author Samantha Irby specializes in wringing comedy out of her own personal tragedies. Among her favorite topics: poop (she’s got Crohn’s...
Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski Is An Emotional Eater
Antoni Porowski wasn’t the obvious choice to be the food expert on Queer Eye — he’s not a chef and he has no formal culinary training. When the show d...
Dan Savage Recommends A Polyeaterous Lifestyle (Reheat)
What should you cook for breakfast the morning after? How can couples share power in the kitchen without driving each other crazy? We talk food and re...
How Long Should You Wait For The First Bite?
Dan Pelosi and Negin Farsad join Dan to settle your food disputes! One couple can’t agree on when they should take the first bite of a meal: when the...
The Sporkful Dating Game! (Reheat)
Could listening to The Sporkful be the fertile soil out of which true love grows? We put out the call for Sporkful listeners looking for love, and hun...
On The Hunt For The Elusive Pawpaw
An email from Sara Bir set us off on an adventure. She’s an author and recipe developer who’s obsessed with pawpaws, the largest fruit native to North...
How To Be The Best Dinner Party Guest (Live)
Casey Elsass is known as the “cookbook doula” because he’s helped birth nearly 20 cookbooks, as a ghostwriter or co-writer. Now, Casey has published h...
We Invent An Ice Cream Sandwich
For years, Dan has kept a Google Doc of ideas for ice cream flavors and ice cream sandwiches. But nobody asked him for it. Then, the folks at Heap’s I...
From Flurry To Blizzard: Ranking Weather-Themed Desserts With A Meteorologist (Reheat)
There are a lot of desserts named after severe weather phenomena, but not all of them are created equal. We asked Tornado Alley's top meteorologist, G...
2 Chefs And A Lie: Normal Gossip Edition
We’re back with our annual game show: Two Chefs And A Lie! But this year, things are a bit different. Dan isn’t playing — he’s the emcee! And our cont...
Marc Maron’s Drug Of Choice Is Sausage Gravy And Biscuits (Reheat)
Dan and WTF host Marc Maron have been arguing about eating for over a decade. This week they revisit old feuds and start news ones, sparring over temp...
Are Carbs In Europe Better For You?
Some people say that when they eat pasta in the US it makes them feel like garbage, but when they eat it in Italy they feel great. Is that legit? What...
This Podcast Contains MSG (Reheat)
Fifty years after the panic about "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" began, we explore how faulty science and perceptions of race and class contributed to...
The Aleppo Sandwich Updated (Pt 3)
Today, we have an update on one of our most popular Sporkful episodes ever, about a beloved sandwich shop in Aleppo, Syria, and an exiled aid worker n...
The Aleppo Sandwich Updated (Pt 2)
When we left off, Shadi Martini was getting increasingly worried that his efforts to help those targeted by the Syrian regime would be discovered. A d...
The Aleppo Sandwich Updated (Pt 1)
Back in 2017, we aired one of our most popular Sporkful episodes ever, about a beloved sandwich shop in Aleppo, Syria. At that time, Syria was reeling...
How To Eat Your Way Across Myrtle Beach
The owner of Big Mike’s Soul Food in Myrtle Beach is also a city councilman, a church deacon, and a real estate agent -- so helping people is at the c...
Is Imitation Vanilla Better Than The Real Thing?
If you do the cooking, should your partner do the cleaning? Are savory oats underrated? Are broccoli stems better than the florets? This week we’re ta...
This Hot Dog Tastes Like Home (Reheat)
We take you to two iconic hot dog joints in Detroit and New Jersey to find out what makes them special. Plus Kenji Lopez-Alt schools us on the science...
The Street Vendor Who Sleeps In His Van To Protect His Turf
Dan Rossi sells hot dogs in the most coveted spot for a street vendor in all of New York City – outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He’s been in t...
This Butcher Wants You To Eat Less Meat (Reheat)
How the (part veggie) sausage gets made...Cara Nicoletti comes from a long line of butchers, but her grandfather didn’t want her to follow in his foot...
How Jessica B. Harris Redefined American Food
Over more than fifty years and 16 books, Dr. Jessica B. Harris has uncovered the ways that West African food, and African American people, have fundam...
The Hidden History of Regional Burgers (Reheat)
Welcome to our summer cookout spectacular episode! We talk with renowned burger historian George Motz about the history of the hamburger, and about th...
Why A Famous Chef Asked A Critic To Leave His Restaurant
Chefs tend to have a love-hate relationship with restaurant critics, who have the power to make or break them. Critics try to enter restaurants undete...
How To Export Coffee In A War (Pt 2) (Reheat)
As civil war erupted in Yemen, Mokhtar Alkhanshali found himself imprisoned, with $5,000 stuffed in his underwear and his coffee samples confiscated....
A Battle Over The Secret Of Nooks And Crannies
Thomas’ English Muffins are so famous for their nooks and crannies that the recipe that produces those iconic features is a closely guarded trade secr...
How To Export Coffee In A War (Pt 1) (Reheat)
Mokhtar Alkhanshali was a doorman in San Francisco when he saw a statue that changed his life. The statue was of an Arab man holding a cup of coffee,...
Can Kolaches Be Bigger Than Texas?
In parts of Texas, a kolache is about as common as a donut — but it’s relatively unknown outside the Lone Star State. The kolache is a traditional Cze...
“The World Eats Here:” Stories From The Queens Night Market (Reheat)
This was supposed to be the Queens Night Market’s big summer... When the open-air market debuted in 2015, the crowds were massive. Founder John Wang s...