The Sporkful with Dan Pashman

25/01/2025

Longtime journalist Tom Scocca took on the recipe writing establishment and won. Hear his story in this week's episode, "Is Your Recipe Lying To You?"

25/01/2025

Thanks to listener Anna in NJ for sharing this note about this week's episode, "Is Your Recipe Lying To You?" And thanks to Elizabeth Dunn of Pressure Cooker podcast and the newsletter "Consumed" for joining us.

22/01/2025

Chris Kimball of Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street holds forth in this week's Sporkful, "Is Your Recipe Lying To You?"

16/01/2025

Pics from two early and memorable Sporkful events -- First, a live taping and release party for my first book, Eat More Better, at WNYC in 2014, which featured the one and only Amy Sedaris, plus Radiolab co-host Robert Krulwich and cronut creator Dominique Ansel Bakery. Second, my 2015 debate with John Hodgman at the Bell House over whether hot dogs are sandwiches (they are), moderated by Brooke Gladstone of On the Media, featuring an opening act of the inimitable Mimi Sheraton. Thought I'd share as we celebrate The Sporkful's 15th anniversary this week!

16/01/2025

I am so proud of Janie who this week traveled to Albany to accept the Louis Yavner Citizen Award, given by the NY State Board of Regents each year to one citizen who has made outstanding contributions to New York State education about the Holocaust and other violations of human rights. Janie is the director of a program that brings together Holocaust survivors and high school students so that the students can hear from the survivors, and share the survivors' stories through a documentary film the students make. Janie also works with 3GNY to travel to schools across the area to share with students her own grandmother's story of surviving the Holocaust. And in the wake of the recent spike in antisemitism in our area, she has consulted with many school districts to provide resources and lesson plans to teachers and administrators. Of course I'm biased but I think this award is extremely well deserved. Congratulations Janie!!!

14/01/2025

This week we're celebrating The Sporkful's 15th Anniversary with a special episode where Janie and I reminisce about the creation of the show and its early days, and I share clips of many of my favorite moments in the show's history. Here are some pics from the early years:

1. The team that produced Morning Sedition with on Air America Radio, one of the shows I worked on pre-Sporkful where I often went on air talking about food before realizing maybe that's the role I was born to play
2. 8-year-old Nathaniel joining us to talk s'mores in Episode 18, back in May 2010. Nathaniel is now 23 and 6'4", that's how long Sporkful has been around!
3. Interviewing for Episode 45 in Fall 2010, along with early days co-host Mark Garrison. (Rachel and I had worked together at Air America.) I realized halfway through that the batteries in my recorder had been dead for quite a while and Rachel was kind enough to re-tape most of the conversation.
4. One of my first TV appearances, on Good Day NY, featuring the greatest caption in television history
5. The setup for You're Eating It Wrong, the web series I hosted that was based on the first iteration of The Sporkful, in which guests and I discussed and debated ridiculous food minutiae

09/01/2025

This is USDA employee and “plant explorer” Frank N. Meyer, who gave the Meyer lemon its name. He introduced more than 2,500 new plant varieties to North America. He’s credited with bringing specimens of apricots and wild pears stateside, and introducing a hardy species of soybean that is still essential to American agriculture today. Yet only the lemon bears his name. So makes the taste of a Meyer lemon so special? We explore in this week’s show, a collaboration with and author of “How To Taste” !

07/01/2025

The Secret Society With A Giant Omelet Tradition -- new podcast up now, a collab with our friends at Atlas Obscura!

03/01/2025

My recipe for Spaghetti all'Assassina ranked No. 3 in SAVEUR Magazine's Top 10 Recipes of 2024 -- they say it's "the best recipe on the internet for the pasta dish that's taken the food world by storm!"

This is the best recipe on the internet for the spicy, crunchy tomato pasta from Bari, Italy that’s taken the food world by storm.

02/01/2025

Cooking was the first thing Jamie Oliver was good at. Dozens of cookbooks, TV shows, and restaurants later, he tells his story in this week's Sporkful podcast. Give it a listen!

02/01/2025

Happy Hanukkah!!!

12/12/2024

At Theodore's Books signing copies of Anything's Pastable -- order by 12/16 to get yours by Christmas / Hanukkah:

The innovative James Beard Award–winning podcaster who changed the way you think about pasta shapes with his invention of the viral sensation cascatelli now does the same for pasta sauces in this fun and charmingly obsessive cookbook, which includes a foreword from bestselling author J.

08/12/2024

Sharing some of the nice things people have said about Anything’s Pastable, in case you’re looking for gift ideas 😉. Thank you to for your kind words!

03/12/2024

After winning the Netflix mixology competition show Drink Masters, decided to stop drinking. Today she says it made her better at her job. She explains how, and we talk about the rise of non alcoholic beers and spirits, in this week’s podcast. ➡️ Swipe for her recipe for an NA mulled wine!

30/11/2024

In our recent episode "A Salty Medical Mystery," Abigail Keel tells the story of how a seemingly simple medical diet suggested by her doctor changed her relationship with food, and led her to question these kinds of diets in the first place.

29/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving to all and to all a good night!

27/11/2024

"I've always been a fan of food," comedian Fortune Feimster says in her 2020 stand up special, Sweet and Salty. She joined the swim team in grade school just for the snacks. As a chubby kid who became a chubby adult, she often played her body for laughs. But in recent years her approach to both comedy and food has evolved. I talk with her about struggling to hold back when you really love to eat, the lesson she learned from her grandmother, and the meatball sliders that almost made her and her fiance break up.

26/11/2024

Well it won't have much toothsinkability but if it saves a few lives, I guess that's ok.