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The Sporkful — 286 episodes

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1

When In A Relationship Can You Double Dip Without Asking?

2

Can Natasha Leggero And Moshe Kasher Save Dan's Marriage? (Reheat)

3

What Makes A Sandwich A Sandwich? (Reheat)

4

A Rare Look Inside Food At Disney World

5

The REAL Sausage King Of Chicago (Reheat)

6

The Mysterious Case Of Alpha Gal

7

Live: Kenji López-Alt No Longer Calls His Recipes “The Best” (Reheat)

8

Live: Kenji Lopez-Alt And Judy Gold Debate The State Of The Bagel

9

A Passover & Easter Doubleheader (Reheat)

10

The Seafood Proxy Battle Between China And Japan

11

Beer Serving Techniques (Reheat)

12

What Happened When China Legalized Restaurants

13

Padma Lakshmi Was An Ice Cream Mule (Reheat)

14

No Somali Artifacts Were Harmed In The Making Of This Cookbook

15

Breaking The Ramadan Fast In A Cab At 50 MPH (Reheat)

16

Asma Khan Says Women Shouldn't Cook For Free

17

Danny Trejo, From Lockup to Donut Shop (Reheat)

18

When ICE Came, This Minnesota Restaurant Stepped Up

19

How To Read A Taco (Reheat)

20

Catching The Codfather

21

Till Pork Do Us Part (Reheat)

22

Is Halal Pork… Possible?

23

Lunchtime With The Simpsons (Reheat)

24

Sporkful Dating Game: Suitcase Full Of Cheese Edition

25

How Prison Ramen Saved My Life (Reheat)

26

The Great Super Bowl Snack Debate

27

2 Chefs And A Lie: Canadian Prime Minister Edition (Reheat)

28

Tom Papa Quit Vegetarianism After One Visit To An Italian Deli

29

Elle Simone Scott Brought More Compassion To The Kitchen (Reheat)

30

At 90, Jacques Pépin Is Still Teaching And Learning

31

Is It OK To Eat All Your Popcorn Before The Movie Starts? (Reheat)

32

Is It Wrong To Eat Popcorn At The Movies?

33

Katie's Year In Recovery (Reheat)

34

Why Are Root Beer Floats Special? Because Science!

35

Cold Case: Office Fridge Food Theft Edition (Reheat)

36

Stanley Tucci Always Keeps A Martini Kit On Set

37

A Hip Hop Track Inspired Bryant Terry To Go Vegan (Reheat)

38

New Year's Food Resolutions 2026

39

Elevating Airplane Food To New Heights (Reheat)

40

How Do You Steal A Truckload Of Tequila? (Salad Spinner Year In Review)

41

Patti LaBelle Says She Cooks Better Than She Sings (Reheat)

42

Samin Nosrat’s Success Looked Different Behind Closed Doors

43

Can We Go Viral On TikTok? (Reheat)

44

Seed Oils Are The Latest Battle In The Cooking Fat Wars

45

What Should Be The Last Cheese On Earth? (Reheat)

46

What’s It Like To Cook With A Brain Injury?

47

Hosting Thanksgiving With Amy Sedaris (Reheat)

48

The Last Meal Roy Wood Jr. Made For His Father

49

In The Test Kitchen With Dan Souza & Lisa McManus

50

What Is Colorado Style Pizza?

51

Phil Rosenthal Has A Menu Strategy (Reheat)

52

How Did Tony Shalhoub Learn To Play A Chef On Screen?

53

A Comprehensive Candy Treatise For Halloween (Reheat)

54

What Makes Dorie Greenspan’s Recipes So Good?

55

How Did Staying Hydrated Become A Thing? (Reheat)

56

How Does Paul Hollywood Dunk His Cookies?

57

Nadiya Hussain, From “Great British Bake Off” To Elbows Out (Reheat)

58

Why Would You Put A Recipe On Your Gravestone?

59

Can I Wipe My Oily Hands On My Legs? (Reheat)

60

What's In Taylor Swift's Signature Cocktail?

61

How Ketchup Got Its Name (Reheat)

62

What Can McDonald’s Tell Us About Black America?

63

Celebrating Shabbat At Wendy’s (Reheat)

64

What’s A Jewish Tavern And House Of Learning?

65

Is The Future Of Bourbon Female? (Reheat)

66

Why Does Cracker Barrel Keep Making People So Mad?

67

How To Host Your Own Porkapalooza

68

Soju, Snacks, And Ramen: How To Party Like A Korean

69

Writer Samantha Irby Is Having Fewer Over-The-Sink Moments (Reheat)

70

Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski Is An Emotional Eater

71

Dan Savage Recommends A Polyeaterous Lifestyle (Reheat)

72

How Long Should You Wait For The First Bite?

73

The Sporkful Dating Game! (Reheat)

74

On The Hunt For The Elusive Pawpaw

75

How To Be The Best Dinner Party Guest (Live)

76

We Invent An Ice Cream Sandwich

77

From Flurry To Blizzard: Ranking Weather-Themed Desserts With A Meteorologist (Reheat)

78

2 Chefs And A Lie: Normal Gossip Edition

79

Marc Maron’s Drug Of Choice Is Sausage Gravy And Biscuits (Reheat)

80

Are Carbs In Europe Better For You?

81

This Podcast Contains MSG (Reheat)

82

The Aleppo Sandwich Updated (Pt 3)

83

The Aleppo Sandwich Updated (Pt 2)

84

The Aleppo Sandwich Updated (Pt 1)

85

How To Eat Your Way Across Myrtle Beach

86

Is Imitation Vanilla Better Than The Real Thing?

87

This Hot Dog Tastes Like Home (Reheat)

88

The Street Vendor Who Sleeps In His Van To Protect His Turf

89

This Butcher Wants You To Eat Less Meat (Reheat)

90

How Jessica B. Harris Redefined American Food

91

The Hidden History of Regional Burgers (Reheat)

92

Why A Famous Chef Asked A Critic To Leave His Restaurant

93

How To Export Coffee In A War (Pt 2) (Reheat)

94

A Battle Over The Secret Of Nooks And Crannies

95

How To Export Coffee In A War (Pt 1) (Reheat)

96

Can Kolaches Be Bigger Than Texas?

97

“The World Eats Here:” Stories From The Queens Night Market (Reheat)

98

Sebastian Maniscalco’s First Stage Was At The Dinner Table

99

New Jersey's Pork Roll-Taylor Ham Wars (Reheat)

100

How the Jalapeño Lost Its Heat

101

What Makes Some Seltzers Sparkle? (Reheat)

102

How Much Should You Tip For One Muffin?

103

Nigella Lawson Orders Food Like A Method Actor (Reheat)

104

How The Real José Cuervo Invented Modern Tequila

105

Cooking In An Immigrant Time Warp With Maangchi (Reheat)

106

Hydrox, Oreo, And The Fight For Sandwich Cookie Supremacy

107

Jason Mantzoukas Sees Every Meal As A Threat (Reheat)

108

Men Have Eating Disorders Too. Why Don’t They Seek Help?

109

The Geometry Of Pizza (Reheat)

110

Roy Choi Can Summon Flavor From His Fingertips

111

Are All Vodkas The Same? (Reheat)

112

Comedian Matteo Lane Says ‘Your Pasta Sucks’

113

Malcolm Gladwell Only Drinks Five Liquids (Reheat)

114

All Aboard The Pizza Bus!

115

Green Apple Bad Apple (Reheat)

116

“Crying In H Mart” Helped Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner Grieve Her Mother

117

Who Invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos? (Reheat)

118

Is A $1 Slice Of Pizza A Snack? (with Katie Nolan)

119

A Priest Walks Into A Bar (Reheat)

120

Working With Bourdain And Batali, Laurie Woolever Saw It All

121

Pizza Legend Patsy Grimaldi (Reheat)

122

Eggs, Raw Milk, And Tariffs, Oh My!

123

Ask Mimi With Mimi Sheraton (Reheat)

124

The Pitmaster With A Pulpit

125

Pho The Love Of Slurping Noodles (Reheat)

126

Southern Cooking Icon Edna Lewis Gets Her Due

127

Hot Chicken Is Hot, But Who's Benefiting? (Reheat)

128

A Southern Gas Station Road Trip

129

The Search For Perfection In Buffalo Wings And Love (Reheat)

130

This Memphis Restaurateur Thrives On Chaos (Live)

131

Two Call-In Smorgasbords (Reheat)

132

The Joy Of Recipe Writing

133

Eating Throughout History (Reheat)

134

Is Your Recipe Lying To You?

135

Weird Al Yankovic: The Sporkful Interview (Reheat)

136

Our 15th Anniversary Sporktacular

137

Sporkful Episode #1 And Sandwich Science With Robert Krulwich (Reheat)

138

The Secret Society With A Giant Omelet Tradition

139

Michael Ian Black Is A Man Who Eats Salads (Reheat)

140

Jamie Oliver Doesn’t Listen To The Skeptics

141

A Trunk Full Of Truffles (Reheat)

142

New Year’s Food Resolutions 2025

143

Reheat: Hari Dreams Of Donuts

144

Defending Seed Oil: Salad Spinner Year In Review

145

Reheat: Samin Nosrat And Hrishikesh Hirway Are Just Here For The Cookies

146

Trading Architecture And Accounting For Cookbooks

147

Reheat: This Puerto Rican Drink Puts The Feliz In Your Navidad

148

The Mixologist Who Stopped Drinking

149

Reheat: Monologues Are Like Meatballs, Says Actor Michael McKean

150

Comic Fortune Feimster Joined The Swim Team For The Fun Dip

151

Reheat: These Chefs Want You To Talk Politics At Dinner

152

A Salty Medical Mystery

153

Reheat: Can A Restaurant Be For Everyone?

154

How Judith Jones Changed Cookbooks Forever

155

Reheat: The Rice Cooker That Changed Jake Cohen’s Life

156

Who Really Was James Beard?

157

Reheat: The Pasta That Won Obama Re-Election

158

Bobby Flay Wins A Lot — But Also Knows How To Lose

159

Reheat: A Very Trini Punjabi Diwali (with DJ Rekha)

160

“Super Size Me,” Twenty Years Later

161

Reheat: Jet Tila Cooks Pad Thai For 20,000 People

162

Ed Gamble Is More Than A Diabetic Comedian (Live)

163

Reheat: What Rock Star Sammy Hagar And Chef Jacques Pepin Have In Common

164

How Cascatelli Ended Up In A German Museum

165

Preserving Jewish Food And Pushing It Forward, With Joan Nathan And Jeremy Salamon

166

Reheat: A Brief History Of Cereal And Milk

167

The Inside Story Of How Taco Bell Created The Big Cheez-It

168

The Enslaved Man Who Taught Jack Daniel How To Make Whiskey

169

Reheat: Why You Should Listen To Your Food

170

The Pashman Family Takes Your Calls 2024

171

Hitting The Taco Trail With José Ralat

172

Reheat: Beyond Pot Brownies (with Radiolab's Jad Abumrad)

173

Bea Ojakangas, From Finnish Food To Pizza Rolls

174

When Is A Taco Legally A Sandwich?

175

Reheat: Christopher Kimball Finds Pleasure In Pain

176

A Car Crash Saved Jameela Jamil’s Life

177

We Can Do Better Than “Obligation Salads”

178

Reheat: How To Be A Good Ice Cream Citizen

179

When Celery Was More Expensive Than Caviar

180

Cookbooks That Need ‘The Grandma Disclaimer’ (Live)

181

Reheat: Confessions of a Ballpark Food Vendor

182

2 Chefs And A Lie: Deconstructed Coney Dog Edition

183

Why Does Gluttony Get Such A Bad Rap?

184

Searching For The Donut King Part 2

185

Searching For The Donut King Part 1

186

Molly Baz Has Confidence In Her Taste

187

Reheat: In Search Of Rosa Parks' Pancakes

188

Yia Vang Says Hmong Food Is His Family's Legacy

189

Book Tour 2: How’d You Get So Good At Failure?

190

Reheat: Andy Richter Bought A Midlife Crisis Fridge

191

Book Tour 1: Do You Really Need That Many Recipe Tests?

192

How You Can Taste Food Like A Flavor Chemist

193

Reheat: Why Roy Wood Jr. Sees Pros To Bad Service And Confederate Flags

194

When Mom Forgets Her Favorite Foods, With Michele Norris

195

Bridgerton’s Claudia Jessie Likes Life At A Low Simmer

196

Reheat: What Dumplings Can’t Fix

197

Bringing Georgia O’Keeffe To Life With Her Recipes

198

benny blanco Says Apple Fritters Are Better Than Sex

199

Reheat: Jim Gaffigan Lies To His Kids About Food

200

Priya Krishna Writes The Kids Cookbook She Wished She'd Had

201

Alyse Whitney Brings Big Dip Energy

202

Reheat: LeVar Burton Even Reads Recipes Dramatically

203

Jewish Food Is More Than Matzoh Balls

204

In Defense Of Picky Eating

205

Reheat: Guy Fieri Hates That Flame Shirt

206

Anything’s Pastable 4 | A Cookbook Is Born

207

Anything’s Pastable 3 | Searching For A Spark

208

Anything’s Pastable 2 | Eat Sauté Love

209

Anything’s Pastable 1 | Every Grain Of Salt

210

Gary Gulman’s Ice Cream Joke Was A Cry For Help

211

Deep Dish With Sohla And Ham: Bagels

212

Can A Restaurant Makeover Make Diners Spend More?

213

Can A Stanley Drinking Cup Really Withstand A Car Fire?

214

Deep Dish With Sohla And Ham: Tacos Al Pastor

215

Undercover Dining With NY Times Restaurant Critic Pete Wells

216

Why Hibachi Gets Complicated

217

Deep Dish With Sohla And Ham: Tteokbokki

218

Deep Dish With Sohla And Ham: Delta Tamales

219

The Hidden Battle Over Grocery Store Shelves

220

Reheat: A Soda Jerk And A Mormon Walk Into A Podcast

221

Ozempic Isn’t So Great For Fat People, Says Aubrey Gordon

222

Reheat: Two Books For The Food Science Nerd In Your Life

223

New Year’s Food Resolutions 2024

224

Reheat: Samin Nosrat Drinks Milk With Her Chocolate Soufflé

225

How Do Michelin Stars Actually Work?

226

Rise Of The Foodie Bro (The Year In Food 2023)

227

Reheat: Comic Maria Bamford Risked Her Life For Ice Cream

228

What Westerners Misunderstand About Chinese Cuisine

229

The Grandma Chefs Of Staten Island

230

Reheat: The Last Sporkful Thanksgiving Special Ever

231

The Drinking Coach Has A Cocktail For You

232

How To Make A Battle-Ready Pizza

233

Sohla El-Waylly Went To Culinary School To “Prove Everyone Wrong”

234

Big News About Dan’s Cookbook!

235

Rediscovering Nigeria By Becoming American

236

Can Bass Pro Shops Teach Grocery Stores Something?

237

Detroit Through A Chinese Restaurant Window

238

School Lunch Triumphs And Tragedies With Kenji López-Alt

239

Natasha Leggero And Moshe Kasher Give Dan Marriage Advice

240

What “Couscousgate” Tells Us About French Food

241

A Chili Crisp Cookbook And An Ode To Shabbat

242

How To Create A New Apple

243

A Garlic Dispute 20 Years In The Making

244

A Forager's Life In Virginia

245

Searching For The Pickle King

246

Instant Pot’s Bankruptcy And Thai Cheese “Burgers”

247

Tommy Pico’s Food History Wasn’t Lost. It Was Stolen.

248

Why Barbie’s First Dreamhouse Didn’t Have A Kitchen

249

Why Ice Is This Summer's Hottest Trend

250

2 Chefs And A Lie: Name That Mustard Edition

251

The Enslaved Chefs At Monticello Who Created American Cuisine

252

The Food-Obsessed Subculture Of The Appalachian Trail

253

Zarna Garg Had To Tell Jokes For Her Supper

254

Inside The World Of Food Smuggling

255

After A Lifetime Of Eating, Gail Simmons Is Still Hungry

256

The Secret To Grace Church’s Lobster Rolls

257

Comic Jamie Loftus’s Hot Dog Summer

258

Is Protecting Abalone Also Destroying A Native Tradition?

259

The Musical History Of Jelly

260

Can ChatGPT Write An Episode Of The Sporkful?

261

Meet The Banh Mi Innovators

262

Squishy Or Crunchy? Why Texture Matters

263

Bill Nye, The FOOD Science Guy!

264

Are You Eating Chipotle Bowls Wrong?

265

For Ghetto Gastro, Food Is A Weapon

266

The Brewer Rewriting The Story of Beer In Iran

267

Raina’s Disordered Eating, One Year Later

268

Should Fine Dining Exist?

269

The Last Big Mac In Iceland

270

Alan And Arlene Alda Bonded Over A Fallen Rum Cake

271

A French Chef And Cincinnati: A Love Story

272

Mission: ImPASTAble 9 | New Shapes From Old Places

273

Mission: ImPASTAble 8 | The Pursuit Of Viscoelasticity

274

The Hardest Beer Test In The World

275

Mission: ImPASTAble 7 (Update) | Turning The Ship

276

Mission: ImPASTAble 6 (Update) | The Future of Cascatelli

277

Mission: ImPASTAble 5 | A Shape Is Born

278

Mission: ImPASTAble 4 | Where The Ruffles Meet The Road

279

Mission: ImPASTAble 3 | What Would Juan Guzmán Do?

280

Mission: ImPASTAble 2 | Slanting The Floors

281

Mission: ImPASTAble 1 | Spaghetti Sucks

282

Mission: ImPASTAble Trailer

283

Update: Inside The Turmoil At Bon Appétit

284

A Reckoning At Bon Appetit

285

When White People Say Plantation

286

Trailer: Welcome to The Sporkful