TASTE Daily show

TASTE Daily

Summary: If you're a fan of home cooking, deep dives into culinary history, and emerging topics in today’s quickly moving food culture, TASTE Daily is a must-listen. Home to the popular series TASTE Food Questions, as well as essays, travel features, interviews, and deeply reported narrative non-fiction published on TASTE. Produced by Max Falkowitz, Anna Hezel, and Matt Rodbard.

Podcasts:

 What is Root Beer Made Of? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 100

How an indigenous medicine became a soda fountain classic.

 Everything Starts With Onions and Garlic. But What If That Stops? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 365

Can cutting alliums out of your diet make you a more creative home cook?

 Why Can’t You Cook With Olive Oil Over High Heat? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 109

It has to do with the oil’s smoke point, but here’s the thing: you totally can.

 Tourists Eat Wings. Buffalonians Eat Subs. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 310

The Rust Belt town in Western New York is famous for one thing: chicken wings. But the people who live there are fueled by a sandwich that most have never heard of.

 Why Do Fresh Eggs Sink and Expired Ones Float? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 82

The science behind the old kitchen legend.

 Flame On, Flamer | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 396

A simple Japanese marinade shatters preconceived grilling, and gender, norms.

 Why Do We Call it Butterscotch? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 90

The toffee-like confection contains no Scotch whisky and often no butter. What gives?

 Durian Deserves Our Love. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 404

Durians are often portrayed as yet another strange, fantastical delicacy of Asia. But in Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia, they’re prized as the fruit equivalent of foie gras.

 What are McRibs Made Of? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 109

Ribs? No. That story you heard about inverted pig behinds? Also no.

 Ice Cream’s Levant Roots Run Deep | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 404

Ice cream as you know it started as a stretchy, dense creation in the eastern Mediterranean—one that’s finally making its way to the United States.

 Who invented the martini? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 98

This classic cocktail has a muddled history.

 My Crazy Irish-Tex-Mex Kitchen | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 495

It’s rashers and local tubers for days for an American expat living in Ireland’s Wild West.

 Less Meat, More Kale: It’s How to Cook Without a Book 2.0 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 216

When the best-selling non-cookbook came out nearly 20 years ago, it proposed a new kitchen psyche for the new millennium. But the way we cook has changed a lot since then.

 Who Invented the Restaurant Star System? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 113

And why a French tire company has so power in the world of fine dining.

 Beef Bile and Bitter Greens: How to Write and Photograph a Cookbook in Rural Northern Thailand | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 595

After 13 years and 66,000 miles driven a cookbook—The Food of Northern Thailand—has arrived.

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