Anything's Pastable (Guest Episode)

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Science, Food, History, Arts

4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

After Dan’s pasta shape, cascatelli, was launched, people everywhere were cooking with it and sending him photos of what they were making. As exciting as that was, he was disappointed that most folks were only making a handful of well-worn dishes with this new shape. So Dan decided to write a cookbook to show the world that there’s so much more you can and should be putting on all your pasta shapes, cascatelli and beyond! There’s only one problem: he’s never written a recipe in his life. In this four-part series, Dan shares the inside story of creating his first cookbook, Anything’s Pastable — from the highs and lows of recipe testing, to a research trip across Italy, to the agonizing decisions over the design of the cover. Listen to this special guest episode of The Sporkful now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.0	Hey, I'm Nicola Twilly, and this is Gastropod, the podcast that looks at food through the lens of science and history.
0:38.0	And I'm Cynthia Graber, and yes, normally we are Gastropod.
0:42.0	But this week, we're bringing you a special treat from our friends at the
0:45.1	Sporkful. It's a behind the scenes look at host Dan Pashman's experience writing his very first cookbook
0:51.9	anything's possible.
0:53.0	We'll be back in a week with a brand new Gasterpot episode, but for now take it away, Dan.
0:58.0	Today we're launching a new series, the behind-the-scenes story of a major project I've been working on. At times it's consumed my whole life and
1:05.2	even involved my kids.
1:06.5	You said it would take like maybe two or three years to do the cookbook, but I thought it would take longer.
1:16.1	You thought it was a very long time?
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