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 America. “Pawpaws are tricky in the kitchen,” Sar...
18 Aug 202538min
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 his very first solo cookbook, What Can I Bring? Rec...
15 Aug 202531min
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 Ice Cream in Brooklyn asked Dan to collaborate on t...
11 Aug 202540min
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, Gary England, to help us rank some of these dessert...
8 Aug 202524min
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 contestant is Rachelle Hampton, host of the podcast No...
4 Aug 202545min
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 temperature contrast in sandwiches, the merits of melo...
1 Aug 202523min
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 does the science say? Also, why is the food at ma...
28 Jul 202546min
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 making of a food myth that persists today. And...
25 Jul 202532min
