Wednesday, Jan 1, 2020 • 2min
Trailer: Welcome to The Sporkful
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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, who also hosts Cooking Channel’s “You’re Eating It Wrong.” Subscribe or favorite now and join us!
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Tell me this right off the bat.
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What is the secret to making great toast?
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Okay.
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You're just going to go in with the hard hitting questions.
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Dan Pashman
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This is The Sporkful.
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I'm Dan Pashman.
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Our motto is, it's not for foodies, it's for eaters.
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This show isn't about fancy chefs or restaurants.
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It's not about cooking tips for healthy eating.
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It's based on the idea that when you obsess about food, you can learn a lot about people.
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I'm a big proponent of keeping your food separate.
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Is that like an O. C. D. Thing? Like tell me about your sock drawer?
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No, that, I guess it's not an O. C. D. thing.
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We've been doing The Sporkful since 2010, and we've won the
James beard
award and the Webby Award
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We have a ton of fun on this show. Just nerding out about eating.
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What I like to do is to do a thin layer of jelly on the top and bottom.
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Interesting.
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And then peanut butter in the middle.
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How am I spreading peanut butter on jelly?
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And we love to use food to learn about science and history.
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Like the time we studied whether potato chips that crunch louder, actually taste better.
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Or the time we recreated a pancake recipe found in
Rosa Park's
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It just makes me more curious about her personal life.
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She's human, and the pancakes is like the most human thing, right?
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We also like to use food to get into thoughtful conversations about complicated issues.
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When we got divorced. I remember like doing a lot of cooking in there.
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I was sublimating all of my grieve and heartbreak and confusion and fear.
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As a fat person, you're always under surveillance when you're eating or when you're in proximity to food.
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01:38
Because I'm white, I can't do anything with Mexican food.
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Speaker 4
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I grew up always knowing that when you're around white people and other folks, don't eat fried chicken and watermelon because there was a shame associated with those foods.
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We also have fun conversations with comedians like
Weird Al,
Hasan Minhaj
and Amy Sedaris,
plus food tv stars like Padma Lakshmi
, Alton Brown
and Guy Fieri
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02:03
I like your questions because your questions aren't the same bullsh-
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And we tell all kinds of food stories.
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Like the time we spent two years trying to find out what happened to a beloved sandwich shop in
Syria,
or the time we went to a restaurant in Rural Tennessee
to meet a barbecue pit master who's also a preacher at a local church.Share
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They know that they're going to be accepted and loved at either place. They're going to be fed at either place, and hopefully that they leave both places feeling better than they did when they got there.
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In every episode of The Sporkful, you're gonna learn something, you're going to feel something, and you're gonna laugh.
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02:35
Shrimps coming to shell?
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02:37
Google a picture right now of a whole shrimp, little tiny black eyes.
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02:41
Okay, hold last shrimp is when I'm googling.
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02:45
These are wild.
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The Sporkful from Stitcher.
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It's not for foodies, it's for eaters, subscribe now and join us.
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