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The Sporkful — 324 episodes
Why Did Carla Lalli Write A Cookbook About Her Divorce?
Why Won’t Anyone Invite Michael Pollan To Dinner? (Reheat)
After His Father’s Murder, Carlos Frías Found Solace In Miami’s Ventanitas
"No Murder, Yes Pork Chops," Says Comic Negin Farsad (Reheat)
Does The World Need A Better Tomato?
The Single Mom Who Changed Myrtle Beach Dining Gets Her Due
Why Are People Hooked On A Fake Food Delivery App?
Marcus Samuelsson Says French Cuisine Isn't The Gold Standard (Reheat)
Who Killed The Florida Orange?
The Rise, Fall, And Redemption of Belgian Waffles (Reheat)
This Rare Condition Causes Extreme, Insatiable Hunger
Meat Pies In Sweeney Todd On Broadway! (Reheat)
How Do You Prep For The Hardest Beer Test In The World?
This Is Your Brain On Cheesesteak (Reheat)
The Ice Cream Truck Kingpins Of Southern California
Carla Hall Isn't Going Back To The Frozen Food Section (Reheat)
2 Chefs And A Lie 2026 With NPR’s Rachel Martin
The Man Who Made 5 Million Burritos (Reheat)
Can You Be On A GLP-1 And Still Love Food?
The Great Office Coffee Election (Reheat)
Does McDonald’s Want Their Soft-Serve Machines To Stay Broken?
The Enslaved Chefs At Monticello Who Created American Cuisine (Reheat)
Welcome To The Clam Capital Of America
Inside The Consumer Reports Test Labs (Reheat)
How Much Should You Tip At A Coffee Shop?
Modern Family’s Ty Burrell Cases Hollywood Parties For Free Food (Reheat)
What Will America’s 250th Birthday Cake Look Like?
Hasan Minhaj Says Life Is Like Biryani (Reheat)
The Table Freda Built At Ebony Magazine
Rachel Maddow Fixed The Pina Colada (Reheat)
Why Would Someone Run 31 Miles While Eating Taco Bell?
Reheat: What's "Poor People's Food"?
Live: Why Is Massachusetts So Obsessed With Dunkin’?
How A Community Garden For Hospitality Workers Came To Life
Which Restaurant Serves The Best Free Bread In America?
Are The Jell-O Heirs Cursed? (Reheat)
This Afghan Restaurant In Houston Tastes Like Home
Mo Rocca Likes Big Ravioli, And He Cannot Lie (Reheat)
When In A Relationship Can You Double Dip Without Asking?
Can Natasha Leggero And Moshe Kasher Save Dan's Marriage? (Reheat)
What Makes A Sandwich A Sandwich? (Reheat)
A Rare Look Inside Food At Disney World
The REAL Sausage King Of Chicago (Reheat)
The Mysterious Case Of Alpha Gal
Live: Kenji López-Alt No Longer Calls His Recipes “The Best” (Reheat)
Live: Kenji Lopez-Alt And Judy Gold Debate The State Of The Bagel
A Passover & Easter Doubleheader (Reheat)
The Seafood Proxy Battle Between China And Japan
Beer Serving Techniques (Reheat)
What Happened When China Legalized Restaurants
Padma Lakshmi Was An Ice Cream Mule (Reheat)
No Somali Artifacts Were Harmed In The Making Of This Cookbook
Breaking The Ramadan Fast In A Cab At 50 MPH (Reheat)
Asma Khan Says Women Shouldn't Cook For Free
Danny Trejo, From Lockup to Donut Shop (Reheat)
When ICE Came, This Minnesota Restaurant Stepped Up
How To Read A Taco (Reheat)
Catching The Codfather
Till Pork Do Us Part (Reheat)
Is Halal Pork… Possible?
Lunchtime With The Simpsons (Reheat)
Sporkful Dating Game: Suitcase Full Of Cheese Edition
How Prison Ramen Saved My Life (Reheat)
The Great Super Bowl Snack Debate
2 Chefs And A Lie: Canadian Prime Minister Edition (Reheat)
Tom Papa Quit Vegetarianism After One Visit To An Italian Deli
Elle Simone Scott Brought More Compassion To The Kitchen (Reheat)
At 90, Jacques Pépin Is Still Teaching And Learning
Is It OK To Eat All Your Popcorn Before The Movie Starts? (Reheat)
Is It Wrong To Eat Popcorn At The Movies?
Katie's Year In Recovery (Reheat)
Why Are Root Beer Floats Special? Because Science!
Cold Case: Office Fridge Food Theft Edition (Reheat)
Stanley Tucci Always Keeps A Martini Kit On Set
A Hip Hop Track Inspired Bryant Terry To Go Vegan (Reheat)
New Year's Food Resolutions 2026
Elevating Airplane Food To New Heights (Reheat)
How Do You Steal A Truckload Of Tequila? (Salad Spinner Year In Review)
Patti LaBelle Says She Cooks Better Than She Sings (Reheat)
Samin Nosrat’s Success Looked Different Behind Closed Doors
Can We Go Viral On TikTok? (Reheat)
Seed Oils Are The Latest Battle In The Cooking Fat Wars
What Should Be The Last Cheese On Earth? (Reheat)
What’s It Like To Cook With A Brain Injury?
Hosting Thanksgiving With Amy Sedaris (Reheat)
The Last Meal Roy Wood Jr. Made For His Father
In The Test Kitchen With Dan Souza & Lisa McManus
What Is Colorado Style Pizza?
Phil Rosenthal Has A Menu Strategy (Reheat)
How Did Tony Shalhoub Learn To Play A Chef On Screen?
A Comprehensive Candy Treatise For Halloween (Reheat)
What Makes Dorie Greenspan’s Recipes So Good?
How Did Staying Hydrated Become A Thing? (Reheat)
How Does Paul Hollywood Dunk His Cookies?
Nadiya Hussain, From “Great British Bake Off” To Elbows Out (Reheat)
Why Would You Put A Recipe On Your Gravestone?
Can I Wipe My Oily Hands On My Legs? (Reheat)
What's In Taylor Swift's Signature Cocktail?
How Ketchup Got Its Name (Reheat)
What Can McDonald’s Tell Us About Black America?
Celebrating Shabbat At Wendy’s (Reheat)
What’s A Jewish Tavern And House Of Learning?
Is The Future Of Bourbon Female? (Reheat)
Why Does Cracker Barrel Keep Making People So Mad?
How To Host Your Own Porkapalooza
Soju, Snacks, And Ramen: How To Party Like A Korean
Writer Samantha Irby Is Having Fewer Over-The-Sink Moments (Reheat)
Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski Is An Emotional Eater
Dan Savage Recommends A Polyeaterous Lifestyle (Reheat)
How Long Should You Wait For The First Bite?
The Sporkful Dating Game! (Reheat)
On The Hunt For The Elusive Pawpaw
How To Be The Best Dinner Party Guest (Live)
We Invent An Ice Cream Sandwich
From Flurry To Blizzard: Ranking Weather-Themed Desserts With A Meteorologist (Reheat)
2 Chefs And A Lie: Normal Gossip Edition
Marc Maron’s Drug Of Choice Is Sausage Gravy And Biscuits (Reheat)
Are Carbs In Europe Better For You?
This Podcast Contains MSG (Reheat)
The Aleppo Sandwich Updated (Pt 3)
The Aleppo Sandwich Updated (Pt 2)
The Aleppo Sandwich Updated (Pt 1)
How To Eat Your Way Across Myrtle Beach
Is Imitation Vanilla Better Than The Real Thing?
This Hot Dog Tastes Like Home (Reheat)
The Street Vendor Who Sleeps In His Van To Protect His Turf
This Butcher Wants You To Eat Less Meat (Reheat)
How Jessica B. Harris Redefined American Food
The Hidden History of Regional Burgers (Reheat)
Why A Famous Chef Asked A Critic To Leave His Restaurant
How To Export Coffee In A War (Pt 2) (Reheat)
A Battle Over The Secret Of Nooks And Crannies
How To Export Coffee In A War (Pt 1) (Reheat)
Can Kolaches Be Bigger Than Texas?
“The World Eats Here:” Stories From The Queens Night Market (Reheat)
Sebastian Maniscalco’s First Stage Was At The Dinner Table
New Jersey's Pork Roll-Taylor Ham Wars (Reheat)
How the Jalapeño Lost Its Heat
What Makes Some Seltzers Sparkle? (Reheat)
How Much Should You Tip For One Muffin?
Nigella Lawson Orders Food Like A Method Actor (Reheat)
How The Real José Cuervo Invented Modern Tequila
Cooking In An Immigrant Time Warp With Maangchi (Reheat)
Hydrox, Oreo, And The Fight For Sandwich Cookie Supremacy
Jason Mantzoukas Sees Every Meal As A Threat (Reheat)
Men Have Eating Disorders Too. Why Don’t They Seek Help?
The Geometry Of Pizza (Reheat)
Roy Choi Can Summon Flavor From His Fingertips
Are All Vodkas The Same? (Reheat)
Comedian Matteo Lane Says ‘Your Pasta Sucks’
Malcolm Gladwell Only Drinks Five Liquids (Reheat)
All Aboard The Pizza Bus!
Green Apple Bad Apple (Reheat)
“Crying In H Mart” Helped Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner Grieve Her Mother
Who Invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos? (Reheat)
Is A $1 Slice Of Pizza A Snack? (with Katie Nolan)
A Priest Walks Into A Bar (Reheat)
Working With Bourdain And Batali, Laurie Woolever Saw It All
Pizza Legend Patsy Grimaldi (Reheat)
Eggs, Raw Milk, And Tariffs, Oh My!
Ask Mimi With Mimi Sheraton (Reheat)
The Pitmaster With A Pulpit
Pho The Love Of Slurping Noodles (Reheat)
Southern Cooking Icon Edna Lewis Gets Her Due
Hot Chicken Is Hot, But Who's Benefiting? (Reheat)
A Southern Gas Station Road Trip
The Search For Perfection In Buffalo Wings And Love (Reheat)
This Memphis Restaurateur Thrives On Chaos (Live)
Two Call-In Smorgasbords (Reheat)
The Joy Of Recipe Writing
Eating Throughout History (Reheat)
Is Your Recipe Lying To You?
Weird Al Yankovic: The Sporkful Interview (Reheat)
Our 15th Anniversary Sporktacular
Sporkful Episode #1 And Sandwich Science With Robert Krulwich (Reheat)
The Secret Society With A Giant Omelet Tradition
Michael Ian Black Is A Man Who Eats Salads (Reheat)
Jamie Oliver Doesn’t Listen To The Skeptics
A Trunk Full Of Truffles (Reheat)
New Year’s Food Resolutions 2025
Hari Dreams Of Donuts (Reheat)
Defending Seed Oil: Salad Spinner Year In Review
Samin Nosrat And Hrishikesh Hirway Are Just Here For The Cookies (Reheat)
Trading Architecture And Accounting For Cookbooks
This Puerto Rican Drink Puts The Feliz In Your Navidad (Reheat)
The Mixologist Who Stopped Drinking
Monologues Are Like Meatballs, Says Actor Michael McKean (Reheat)
Comic Fortune Feimster Joined The Swim Team For The Fun Dip
These Chefs Want You To Talk Politics At Dinner (Reheat)
A Salty Medical Mystery
Can A Restaurant Be For Everyone? (Reheat)
How Judith Jones Changed Cookbooks Forever
The Rice Cooker That Changed Jake Cohen’s Life (Reheat)
Who Really Was James Beard?
The Pasta That Won Obama Re-Election (Reheat)
Bobby Flay Wins A Lot — But Also Knows How To Lose
Reheat: A Very Trini Punjabi Diwali (with DJ Rekha)
“Super Size Me,” Twenty Years Later
Jet Tila Cooks Pad Thai For 20,000 People (Reheat)
Ed Gamble Is More Than A Diabetic Comedian (Live)
What Rock Star Sammy Hagar And Chef Jacques Pepin Have In Common (Reheat)
How Cascatelli Ended Up In A German Museum
Preserving Jewish Food And Pushing It Forward, With Joan Nathan And Jeremy Salamon
Reheat: A Brief History Of Cereal And Milk
The Inside Story Of How Taco Bell Created The Big Cheez-It
The Enslaved Man Who Taught Jack Daniel How To Make Whiskey
Reheat: Why You Should Listen To Your Food
The Pashman Family Takes Your Calls 2024
Hitting The Taco Trail With José Ralat
Reheat: Beyond Pot Brownies (with Radiolab's Jad Abumrad)
Bea Ojakangas, From Finnish Food To Pizza Rolls
When Is A Taco Legally A Sandwich?
Reheat: Christopher Kimball Finds Pleasure In Pain
A Car Crash Saved Jameela Jamil’s Life
We Can Do Better Than “Obligation Salads”
Reheat: How To Be A Good Ice Cream Citizen
When Celery Was More Expensive Than Caviar
Cookbooks That Need ‘The Grandma Disclaimer’ (Live)
Reheat: Confessions of a Ballpark Food Vendor
2 Chefs And A Lie: Deconstructed Coney Dog Edition
Why Does Gluttony Get Such A Bad Rap?
Searching For The Donut King Part 2
Searching For The Donut King Part 1
Molly Baz Has Confidence In Her Taste
Reheat: In Search Of Rosa Parks' Pancakes
Yia Vang Says Hmong Food Is His Family's Legacy
Book Tour 2: How’d You Get So Good At Failure?
Reheat: Andy Richter Bought A Midlife Crisis Fridge
Book Tour 1: Do You Really Need That Many Recipe Tests?
How You Can Taste Food Like A Flavor Chemist
Reheat: Why Roy Wood Jr. Sees Pros To Bad Service And Confederate Flags
When Mom Forgets Her Favorite Foods, With Michele Norris
Bridgerton’s Claudia Jessie Likes Life At A Low Simmer
Reheat: What Dumplings Can’t Fix
Bringing Georgia O’Keeffe To Life With Her Recipes
benny blanco Says Apple Fritters Are Better Than Sex
Reheat: Jim Gaffigan Lies To His Kids About Food
Priya Krishna Writes The Kids Cookbook She Wished She'd Had
Alyse Whitney Brings Big Dip Energy
Reheat: LeVar Burton Even Reads Recipes Dramatically
Jewish Food Is More Than Matzoh Balls
In Defense Of Picky Eating
Reheat: Guy Fieri Hates That Flame Shirt
Anything’s Pastable 4 | A Cookbook Is Born
Anything’s Pastable 3 | Searching For A Spark
Anything’s Pastable 2 | Eat Sauté Love
Anything’s Pastable 1 | Every Grain Of Salt
Gary Gulman’s Ice Cream Joke Was A Cry For Help
Deep Dish With Sohla And Ham: Bagels
Can A Restaurant Makeover Make Diners Spend More?
Can A Stanley Drinking Cup Really Withstand A Car Fire?
Deep Dish With Sohla And Ham: Tacos Al Pastor
Undercover Dining With NY Times Restaurant Critic Pete Wells
Why Hibachi Gets Complicated
Deep Dish With Sohla And Ham: Tteokbokki
Deep Dish With Sohla And Ham: Delta Tamales
The Hidden Battle Over Grocery Store Shelves
Reheat: A Soda Jerk And A Mormon Walk Into A Podcast
Ozempic Isn’t So Great For Fat People, Says Aubrey Gordon
Reheat: Two Books For The Food Science Nerd In Your Life
New Year’s Food Resolutions 2024
Reheat: Samin Nosrat Drinks Milk With Her Chocolate Soufflé
How Do Michelin Stars Actually Work?
Rise Of The Foodie Bro (The Year In Food 2023)
Reheat: Comic Maria Bamford Risked Her Life For Ice Cream
What Westerners Misunderstand About Chinese Cuisine
The Grandma Chefs Of Staten Island
Reheat: The Last Sporkful Thanksgiving Special Ever
The Drinking Coach Has A Cocktail For You
How To Make A Battle-Ready Pizza
Sohla El-Waylly Went To Culinary School To “Prove Everyone Wrong”
Big News About Dan’s Cookbook!
Rediscovering Nigeria By Becoming American
Can Bass Pro Shops Teach Grocery Stores Something?
Detroit Through A Chinese Restaurant Window
School Lunch Triumphs And Tragedies With Kenji López-Alt
Natasha Leggero And Moshe Kasher Give Dan Marriage Advice
What “Couscousgate” Tells Us About French Food
A Chili Crisp Cookbook And An Ode To Shabbat
How To Create A New Apple
A Garlic Dispute 20 Years In The Making
A Forager's Life In Virginia
Searching For The Pickle King
Instant Pot’s Bankruptcy And Thai Cheese “Burgers”
Tommy Pico’s Food History Wasn’t Lost. It Was Stolen.
Why Barbie’s First Dreamhouse Didn’t Have A Kitchen
Why Ice Is This Summer's Hottest Trend
2 Chefs And A Lie: Name That Mustard Edition
The Enslaved Chefs At Monticello Who Created American Cuisine
The Food-Obsessed Subculture Of The Appalachian Trail
Zarna Garg Had To Tell Jokes For Her Supper
Inside The World Of Food Smuggling
After A Lifetime Of Eating, Gail Simmons Is Still Hungry
The Secret To Grace Church’s Lobster Rolls
Comic Jamie Loftus’s Hot Dog Summer
Is Protecting Abalone Also Destroying A Native Tradition?
The Musical History Of Jelly
Can ChatGPT Write An Episode Of The Sporkful?
Meet The Banh Mi Innovators
Squishy Or Crunchy? Why Texture Matters
Bill Nye, The FOOD Science Guy!
Are You Eating Chipotle Bowls Wrong?
For Ghetto Gastro, Food Is A Weapon
The Brewer Rewriting The Story of Beer In Iran
Raina’s Disordered Eating, One Year Later
Should Fine Dining Exist?
The Last Big Mac In Iceland
Alan And Arlene Alda Bonded Over A Fallen Rum Cake
A French Chef And Cincinnati: A Love Story
Mission: ImPASTAble 9 | New Shapes From Old Places
Mission: ImPASTAble 8 | The Pursuit Of Viscoelasticity
The Hardest Beer Test In The World
Mission: ImPASTAble 7 (Update) | Turning The Ship
Mission: ImPASTAble 6 (Update) | The Future of Cascatelli
Mission: ImPASTAble 5 | A Shape Is Born
Mission: ImPASTAble 4 | Where The Ruffles Meet The Road
Mission: ImPASTAble 3 | What Would Juan Guzmán Do?
Mission: ImPASTAble 2 | Slanting The Floors
Mission: ImPASTAble 1 | Spaghetti Sucks
Mission: ImPASTAble Trailer
Update: Inside The Turmoil At Bon Appétit
A Reckoning At Bon Appétit
When White People Say Plantation
Trailer: Welcome to The Sporkful