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  • When Wedge Salad Becomes A Wedge Issue With Gail Simmons & Ayesha Nurdjaja

    October 19, 2026 · 33 min

    Is a wedge salad worth the effort of using a knife to eat it? Should you take home the unopened beer you brought to a dinner party? And does your produce really need to be washed? Dan’s taking your calls with Gail Simmons, Top Chef judge…

  • The Bucatini Dialogues: A Debate About Pasta Shapes (Reheat)

    October 16, 2026 · 35 min

    “Literally all pasta shapes are wonderful except bucatini. Bucatini can go get effed.” Francis Lam’s strongly-worded tweet inspired Dan to organize a live event in 2018, where he, Francis (host of The Splendid Table), and Evan Kleiman…

  • Why Are There So Many Kids At Breweries?

    October 12, 2026 · 33 min

    The craft brewery used to be a place for self-proclaimed beer nerds to sample the hot new IPA. Now, young kids, toddlers, and even infants take up as much space as beer-drinking adults. So how did this happen? It’s a story of a…

  • Yotam Ottolenghi Says To Bake A Cake So You Eat Less Sugar (Reheat)

    October 9, 2026 · 27 min

    Yotam Ottolenghi is an Israeli-British chef famous for getting people to eat more vegetables. But now, he's making the case for sugar. On the heels of his 2017 dessert cookbook, Sweet, he discusses the personality differences between…

  • When Will Indian Food Be American? With Priya Krishna & Madhur Jaffrey (Live)

    October 5, 2026 · 33 min

    In 1973, Madhur Jaffrey penned An Invitation to Indian Cooking and introduced many Americans to Indian cuisine. More than 50 years later, Priya Krishna (author of Indian-ish and Priya’s Kitchen Adventures) argues that Indian food is just…

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  • Should You Put Ice In Your Milk? With Brittany Luse & Eric Eddings (Reheat)

    October 2, 2026 · 34 min

    Should you eat fast food on vacation, or should every meal be at a special local place? Is soup bar food? Does ice belong in milk? Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings join Dan to answer your questions — and to settle some long-standing food…

  • Can You Be Body Positive And Still Want To Lose Weight?

    September 28, 2026 · 36 min

    The fat acceptance movement has spent decades fighting weight stigma and calling for equal rights for fat people in all areas of life. As the movement moved online, the idea of body positivity emerged. While fat acceptance was about…

  • Comedian Nicole Byer Sees Her First Shrimp (Reheat)

    September 25, 2026 · 29 min

    Comedian Nicole Byer hosts the cooking competition show Nailed It! on Netflix. It’s family-friendly, but that doesn’t stop her from deploying her raunchy humor with her co-host, the chocolatier Jacques Torres, when the cameras are off…

  • The Great Yogurt Feud (Live)

    September 21, 2026 · 40 min

    If someone asked you to name the country that dominates American yogurt aisles, you would undoubtedly say Greece. Thick Greek yogurt makes up more than half of all US yogurt sales. But shaking its fist from the shadows is another country…

  • Traveling Back In Time For Coconut Cake (Reheat)

    September 18, 2026 · 41 min

    Dan goes on an adventure around Los Angeles, starting at the airport. Where is he going? He doesn't know. He doesn't have a plan. The one thing he does know is that he's going to attempt to travel through time to eat a piece of coconut…

  • Why Did Carla Lalli Write A Cookbook About Her Divorce?

    September 14, 2026 · 34 min

    Thirty years into her career as a chef and cookbook author, Carla Lalli is releasing a book many people told her she shouldn’t write. It’s called Food Is A Feeling, and it’s a lot more personal than her others. It has plenty of great…

  • Why Won’t Anyone Invite Michael Pollan To Dinner? (Reheat)

    September 11, 2026 · 36 min

    You know that friend of yours who rails against the evils of high fructose corn syrup? The one who’s obsessed with where every single morsel of their food comes from? Writer Michael Pollan — author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, Food Rules…

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About the show

3x James Beard Award winner. Named one of TIME's 100 Best Podcasts Of All Time. We obsess about food to learn more about people. It's not for foodies, it's for eaters. Hosted by Dan Pashman, inventor of the viral pasta shape cascatelli. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of The Sporkful ad-free. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus.