Radio host Brian Lehrer of WNYC invited the Sporkful’s host, Dan Pashman onto his show today to riff on the Slate article about Allrecipes that inspired my last post. While Pashman seemed more inclined to use the recipes to understand divisions in class cultures, Lehrer stuck with the always crowd-pleasing “Ew, I can’t believe people… Continue reading Have it Your Way, Part II

Allrecipes is an amazing resource for many things. There are the recipes, of course, but it is also a fantastic portrait of what people are eating and how they are thinking about the joys and challenges of daily cooking. The author of a recent article in Slate declares it “perhaps the most accurate, democratic snapshot of… Continue reading Have it Your Way