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• How Much Should You Tip For One Muffin?

  Are the vibes at a restaurant more important than the food? Would you rip a bagel and drag a piece through cream cheese, instead of slicing and spreading? Do you tip less when you get bad service? We get into these questions and a lot...

  12 mei 2025 2740 sec.

• Reheat: Nigella Lawson Orders Food Like A Method Actor

  Nigella Lawson is a domestic goddess of the highest order. She strikes the perfect balance between aspiration — a beautiful garden, perfect lighting — and accessibility — sheet pan dinners and a disdain for pretentiousness. Nigella...

  9 mei 2025 1864 sec.

• How The Real José Cuervo Invented Modern Tequila

  José Cuervo was a real person, and he revolutionized the tequila industry in the early 1900s. He navigated bloody business rivalries, cozied up to a dictator, and survived the Mexican revolution thanks to a daring escape. After that,...

  5 mei 2025 2020 sec.

• Reheat: Cooking In An Immigrant Time Warp With Maangchi

  In 2007, Maangchi was 50 years old, a single mother of adult kids, and was addicted to online gaming. Her son suggested she post a cooking video to YouTube. Today she has 4 million subscribers and has taught fans all over the world how...

  2 mei 2025 2044 sec.

• Hydrox, Oreo, And The Fight For Sandwich Cookie Supremacy

  Hydrox cookies are known as a cheap knock-off of Oreos, to the point that Hydrox has become pop culture shorthand for “second best.” But did you know that Hydrox came first? And that these two cookies have a rivalry that goes back more...

  28 apr 2025 2328 sec.

• Reheat: Jason Mantzoukas Sees Every Meal As A Threat

  Actor and comedian Jason Mantzoukas is known for playing characters that are overzealous, exuberant, and more than a little wacky. But these characters are the exact opposite of how Jason felt growing up — like a “boy made of...

  25 apr 2025 1988 sec.

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

  Public discussions about eating disorders tend to focus on women, and in the past, so have our episodes on the subject. But millions of men also struggle with some form of disordered eating, though they’re far less likely to be...

  21 apr 2025 2957 sec.

• Reheat: The Geometry Of Pizza

  A neuroscientist calls in to debate the geometry of pizza, and food science guru Kenji Lopez-Alt explains how woodworking can help us make a better bagel and cream cheese. This episode originally aired on September 16, 2017 , and was...

  18 apr 2025 1494 sec.

• Roy Choi Can Summon Flavor From His Fingertips

  Roy Choi is a legend in LA. He was one of the first chefs to start cooking out of a food truck, and one of the first to mashup different cuisines in the way that’s become so popular. His Kogi korean beef taco truck was a sensation in LA...

  14 apr 2025 2490 sec.

• Reheat: Are All Vodkas The Same?

  Is there really a difference between cheap and expensive vodkas? In this collaboration with NPR's Planet Money, we go on a mission to learn how super premium vodka is made and marketed. Then we make our own, to see how it measures...

  11 apr 2025 1790 sec.

• Comedian Matteo Lane Says ‘Your Pasta Sucks’

  Comedian Matteo Lane comes from a large Italian family, which gave him his passion for food and his sense of humor. A few years back he started posting cooking videos on social media, and now he’s published Your Pasta Sucks, a...

  7 apr 2025 2041 sec.

• Reheat: Malcolm Gladwell Only Drinks Five Liquids

  Author and podcast host Malcolm Gladwell immigrated to Canada when he was young, the child of an English father and Jamaican mother. He’s always felt like an outsider. He hated maple syrup, in a town that hosts the largest one-day maple...

  4 apr 2025 2317 sec.