The Sporkful

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We obsess about food to learn more about people. The Sporkful isn't for foodies, it's for eaters. Hosted by Dan Pashman, who's also the inventor of the new pasta shape cascatelli. James Beard and Webby Award winner for Best Food Podcast. A Stitcher Production.

2D AGO

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

Is wine actually better than beer when watching football? What would a Thanksgiving feast prepared with recipes from Tom Brady’s cookbook taste like? Do you really need to wash your vegetables? We’re tackling your food disputes and hot takes this week, with someone who’s seen plenty of tackling — Katie Nolan.

35 min
5D AGO

Reheat: A Priest Walks Into A Bar

What do a great bartender and a great priest have in common? We ask a Catholic priest who moonlights as a mixologist. Plus, Dan revisits a beloved pub from his past to find out what makes a great bar.

29 min
MAR 10

Working With Bourdain And Batali, Laurie Woolever Saw It All

Laurie Woolever is a food writer in New York, but she’s probably best known for two other jobs she’s held: an assistant to Mario Batali, and an assistant to and collaborator with Anthony Bourdain. Laurie was working with Bourdain when he took his own life in 2018. After his death, she published Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography.

46 min
MAR 7

Reheat: Pizza Legend Patsy Grimaldi

81-year-old Patsy Grimaldi may be the last person making pizza today who trained under someone who trained at Lombardi's—the first pizzeria in American history. Dan sits down with Patsy and his wife Carol to discuss slice folding technique, the art and science of using a coal oven, what she taught him about pizza, and the scourge of pineapple pizza, along with several other trends Patsy deems "ridiculous."

29 min
MAR 3

Eggs, Raw Milk, And Tariffs, Oh My!

Why is the bird flu outbreak that’s currently driving up egg prices different from past outbreaks? Are new tariffs about to make your groceries more expensive? And, perhaps most importantly, are Capri-Sun pouches about to disappear?

40 min
FEB 28

Reheat: Ask Mimi With Mimi Sheraton

Mimi Sheraton has seen it all in her 92 years. In this Reheat of our spinoff podcast, Ask Mimi, the legendary food critic offers advice on food and life to live callers and celebrity guests. The Sporkful's Dan Pashman moderates. In this episode, humorist Mo Rocca joins Mimi and Dan live on stage to ask for help with an issue involving his mom.

37 min
FEB 24

The Pitmaster With A Pulpit

Monday through Saturday, Devin Pickard and his family run Papa KayJoe's BBQ in Centerville, Tennessee. But on Sundays, Devin trades the BBQ pit for the pulpit at Hope Church, the non-denominational congregation where he preaches. In many ways, food is a natural fit for a southern preacher, but there are other, less obvious ways Devin's two professions come together.

30 min
FEB 21

Reheat: Pho The Love Of Slurping Noodles

We're reheating this episode in honor of Chef Charles Phan, owner of The Slanted Door, who recently died. In 2016, he showed us the right way to eat the Vietnamese noodle soup pho. Then we take a deep dive into the science of soup slurping with a researcher who studies the mechanics of eating.

24 min

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Trailer: Welcome to The Sporkful

This podcast isn’t for foodies, it’s for eaters. We have a ton of fun obsessing about food to learn more about culture, science, history, and most importantly—people. In every episode of The Sporkful you’re going to learn something, feel something, and laugh. Winner of the James Beard and Webby Award for Best Food Podcast. Hosted by Dan Pashman, inventor of the pasta shape cascatelli. Subscribe, follow, or favorite now and join us!

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4.6

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3,728 Ratings

Always entertaining

Feb 28

PDlikespodcasts

Always a nice listen. Love Dan.
Too many reheats!

Mar 7

MGKL96

It's undoubtedly a lot of work to produce the show, which I lije. But there hace been way too many reheats lately, which makes the podcast seem stale.
Love this show

12/28/2024

Demi1982AvidListener

Nice perfect mix
Onions don’t lie

Jan 23

icancook

The episode re recipes lying about caramalizing onions is glib and wrong. The cited guest can’t cook. Yes, caramalizing onions for onion soup takes a long time. BUT… it is easy to caramalize onions quickly in oil at a high heat. I don’t know why the guest had such a hard time. Yellow or red onions get brown in oil at high heat get brown and sweet in under ten minutes. You just need to keep stirring so they don’t burn. It isn’t the deep flavor of slow cooked onions but it is caramelized. The recipes cited do not lie. Note, for example the recent Birman video re making Amartrciano for lunch. He fried diced onions in bacon fat. They browned in about five minutes.
Commercials on commercials

Jan 20

AAA_Hater

I have listened to this pod for 8+ years. It makes me sad that the episodes have so much less actual material now. This has more commercials than any other podcast I listen to. And many repeat episodes. I just listened to the 2025 Food Resolutions, an episode I usually really enjoy, but it’s just a long ad, a few short minutes of new material, then another repeat episode. Ughhhhhhh.
One of my faves

12/03/2024

Callmekp27

One of my very favorite podcasts. Love the deep dive into a wide variety of topics and I always feel like I learned something.
Reheats and commercials

12/07/2024

Pod Wheeler

If you like listening to old episodes(called reheats) and commercials, this is for you.
Great show

11/05/2024

Matt Rodbard

Dan and company are always digging deep, I appreciate the work they do.
Too many commercials and they are way too loud.

11/24/2024

GoodGood Soul

I used to love listening to the show. But I'm so sick and tired of all the commercials. More so this week than ever before. I'm tired of one or two or three or sets of even six commercials in a row just to listen to the simple great little podcast. The commercials are also way way too loud and I can't stand it anymore so I'm out!
Not for corporate sponsorships or genocide

10/04/2024

soupfangirl

This podcast is just ok but it loses 1.5 stars for too many advertisements and another 1.5 stars for glorifying genocidal ethnostates