
New Year's Food Resolutions 2026
What foods do Sporkful listeners resolve to eat more of in the new year, and why? And what’s Dan’s New Year’s food resolution for 2026? All is revealed in our annual year-end spectacular. We also repl...
22 Dec 202543min

Elevating Airplane Food To New Heights (Reheat)
This episode is chock full of strategies for making your way in one of the world's most barren food wastelands. We cover both the airport and airplane, short domestic flights and long haul internation...
19 Dec 202521min

How Do You Steal A Truckload Of Tequila? (Salad Spinner Year In Review)
From a moisturizer made of beef fat, to bartenders hating on Gen Z, to tariffs, a lot happened this year. (How do you get away with stealing 100,000 eggs and a truckload of Guy Fieri’s tequila?) We co...
15 Dec 202547min

Patti LaBelle Says She Cooks Better Than She Sings (Reheat)
Patti LaBelle is not just a music icon, she’s also a food icon. She’s written best-selling cookbooks, hosted a food TV show, and even cooked for Elton John, The Rolling Stones, and Prince. She talks w...
12 Dec 202531min

Samin Nosrat’s Success Looked Different Behind Closed Doors
It’s been eight years since Samin Nosrat published her smash-hit cookbook, Salt Fat Acid Heat. She says her whole adult life was on a trajectory toward that book. But in the aftermath of its success, ...
8 Dec 202534min

Can We Go Viral On TikTok? (Reheat)
TikTok is the wild west of the food media world. It’s less professionalized than Instagram and YouTube, and it holds the promise of virality from the very first time you post. So we wondered: What act...
5 Dec 202536min

Seed Oils Are The Latest Battle In The Cooking Fat Wars
In America, the cooking fat you use — lard, butter, shortening, oil — has long been a signifier of health, virtue, and class. What is it about fat that gets us so riled up? Reporter Adwoa Gyimah-Bremp...
1 Dec 202538min

What Should Be The Last Cheese On Earth? (Reheat)
This week we’re reheating two call-in episodes from 2015. First: Two Sporkful listeners call in to debate the best way to make enchiladas: flat (lasagna style) or rolled. Can Dan's advice restore peac...
28 Nov 202533min






















