We Can Do Better Than “Obligation Salads”
Pretty much every restaurant has salads, and yet how often do you get really excited to eat one? In restaurants and at home, most salads seem to be there because the person making the meal felt obliga...
5 Aug 202437min
Reheat: How To Be A Good Ice Cream Citizen
Is it unethical to sample an ice cream shop's flavors and not buy anything? A married couple calls in for advice, and Cooks Illustrated's Dan Souza reveals the artisanal ice cream industry's biggest s...
2 Aug 202433min
When Celery Was More Expensive Than Caviar
Celery doesn't get a lot of love these days. But it was the avocado toast of the late 1800s and early 1900s. People thought it had magical powers, and the hottest chefs in New York City were making ce...
29 Jul 202426min
Cookbooks That Need ‘The Grandma Disclaimer’ (Live)
Food writer Khushbu Shah and chef Edy Massih each released their first cookbooks this spring. Both works are part of a new generation of cookbooks that take inspiration from specific cuisines without ...
22 Jul 202438min
Reheat: Confessions of a Ballpark Food Vendor
In this episode of the Sporkful, a former Shea Stadium food vendor tells Dan about the worst gig in the ballpark. Plus a North Carolina peanut man tells us how they get the salt inside the shell, and ...
19 Jul 202423min
2 Chefs And A Lie: Deconstructed Coney Dog Edition
We’re back with our annual game show Two Chefs And A Lie! Here’s how it works. Dan talks with three “chefs.” Two of them are real chefs, one is an imposter. Dan can ask each of them just five question...
15 Jul 202431min
Why Does Gluttony Get Such A Bad Rap?
Recently, a friend of restaurant critic Tim Hayward called him a glutton. This week, our friends at the Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast dig into that label with Tim — and he explains why he embra...
8 Jul 202439min
Searching For The Donut King Part 2
After months of searching, we finally meet Ted Ngoy, aka "the Donut King", and learn what happened to him. He's returned to the Cambodian community seeking redemption. But will he find it?(This is par...
5 Jul 202438min
