When Is A Taco Legally A Sandwich?
Why are politicians trying to ban lab-grown meat? Is Chipotle secretly serving smaller portions? And just how good is that new cereal mix by Jason and Travis Kelce? We dig into these questions and mor...
19 Aug 202436min
Reheat: Christopher Kimball Finds Pleasure In Pain
The founder of Milk Street hates celebrations and says pleasure is annoying. This week, Chris Kimball tells us why he thinks cooking is supposed to be hard, and how he got this way. Plus, he and Dan b...
16 Aug 202433min
A Car Crash Saved Jameela Jamil’s Life
Jameela Jamil may be best known for her role on the NBC show The Good Place. On the show, her character’s nonprofit work is a punchline, but in real life, Jameela’s activism on issues of fatphobia and...
12 Aug 202427min
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
