The Sporkful

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  When Will Indian Food Be American? With Priya Krishna & Madhur Jaffrey (Live) 05.10.2026 32min

  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 as American as any other immigrant cuisine. But among many non-South Asians in the US, Indian food still carries the perception that it’s “foreign.”
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  Should You Put Ice In Your Milk? With Brittany Luse & Eric Eddings (Reheat) 02.10.2026 34min

  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?
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  Can You Be Body Positive And Still Want To Lose Weight? 28.09.2026 35min

  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.
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  Comedian Nicole Byer Sees Her First Shrimp (Reheat) 25.09.2026 29min

  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. Nicole talks with Dan about the parallels between a restaurant kitchen and comedy club, and why she makes her own favorite cake for her late mom’s birthday.
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  The Great Yogurt Feud (Live) 21.09.2026 40min

  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 that’s even more obsessed with yogurt: Bulgaria.
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  Traveling Back In Time For Coconut Cake (Reheat) 18.09.2026 40min

  Dan goes on an adventure around Los Angeles, starting at the airport. Where is he going? He doesn't know.
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  Why Did Carla Lalli Write A Cookbook About Her Divorce? 14.09.2026 33min

  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.
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  Why Won’t Anyone Invite Michael Pollan To Dinner? (Reheat) 11.09.2026 36min

  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, and Cooked — may have made your friend like that.
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  After His Father’s Murder, Carlos Frías Found Solace In Miami’s Ventanitas 07.09.2026 36min

  Fernando Frías was a successful cafe and restaurant owner in Havana, but when Fidel Castro came to power, the government nationalized Fernando’s businesses and imprisoned him when he tried to leave the country. Eventually he got out, settling near Miami like so many other Cuban expats. Even though Fernando never went back to Cuba, he was always searching for pieces of his homeland in the Cuban-American community in Miami.
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  "No Murder, Yes Pork Chops," Says Comic Negin Farsad (Reheat) 04.09.2026 30min

  Negin Farsad loves to negotiate. And when it comes to negotiating, nothing is off-limits — even religious law. "I feel like Allah would be like, 'Get the pork chop but don't kill anybody,'" the Iranian-American Muslim comedian and host of Fake the Nation says. This week, Negin uses her lamb kebab to school us on campaign finance reform.
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  Does The World Need A Better Tomato? 31.08.2026 40min

  In New Jersey, the tomato is king. Almost a century ago, a scientist at Rutgers University developed a variety that became the tomato that lined grocery store shelves for decades. Now, Rutgers scientists are at it again.
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  The Single Mom Who Changed Myrtle Beach Dining Gets Her Due 28.08.2026 18min

  When Dan had to plan his mom’s big 80th birthday dinner, he knew just where to take the whole family: Myrtle Beach, SC. The group of ten celebrated at Hook and Barrel, a sustainable seafood and wine restaurant owned by restaurateur Heidi Vukov, who’s a legend in Myrtle Beach. She started out as a single mom who opened a small bakery, and 31 years later became the city’s first James Beard semifinalist.
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  Why Are People Hooked On A Fake Food Delivery App? 24.08.2026 45min

  Can “functional” candy be delicious? Why are people ordering from a fake food delivery app? And should tomatoes be banned from sandwiches?
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  Marcus Samuelsson Says French Cuisine Isn't The Gold Standard (Reheat) 21.08.2026 31min

  Chef Marcus Samuelsson was taught in culinary school that French cuisine is the gold standard of cooking. One day, he realized, “somebody lied." Samuelsson, a black Swede and the youngest chef to ever receive a three-star review from The New York Times (at age 23), has forged a new culinary ethos that permeates his restaurants in Harlem, Montreal, and London.
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  Who Killed The Florida Orange? 17.08.2026 47min

  Like palm trees, the Everglades, Disney World, and “Florida Man,” the orange is a classic symbol of the Sunshine State. But maybe not for much longer. Production has declined more than 95% in less than 25 years, setting off alarm bells across the industry.
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  The Rise, Fall, And Redemption of Belgian Waffles (Reheat) 14.08.2026 44min

  At the 1964 New York World's Fair, Belgian waffles were introduced to America. They became a sensation. But a half-century later, the woman who sold those waffles says her family's legacy has been co-opted.
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  This Rare Condition Causes Extreme, Insatiable Hunger 10.08.2026 44min

  The Rao family in Maryland knew that something was different about their younger daughter, Ayoni, almost as soon as she was born. But it took them until she was five to get a diagnosis of Prader-Willi Syndrome, a rare genetic condition that causes extreme, insatiable hunger. Food needs to be locked away from many of these patients, or they might eat until their stomachs actually rupture.
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  Meat Pies In Sweeney Todd On Broadway! (Reheat) 07.08.2026 30min

  The musical Sweeney Todd is about a barber who goes on a killing spree and disposes of his victims by baking them into meat pies. In an off-Broadway production, they serve you an actual meat pie before the show begins. Dr. Pamela Dalton, a researcher at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, helps us understand how food flavors and smells can affect our brains while we’re watching this kind of immersive theater.
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  How Do You Prep For The Hardest Beer Test In The World? 03.08.2026 39min

  Mandy Naglich is an award-winning home brewer who also writes and teaches about beer. Now she wants to become a Master Cicerone — basically the beer equivalent of a master sommelier.
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  This Is Your Brain On Cheesesteak (Reheat) 31.07.2026 25min

  Why do our brains go crazy for the melted cheese on Philly's iconic cheesesteak? What is it about scrapple’s crispy fried goodness? How does surface-area-to-volume ratio make the roast pork sandwich more delicious?