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Home Cooking

Samin Nosrat & Hrishikesh Hirway

Arts, Food

4.8 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

We are thrilled to be back for the eleventieth season in our four-part series! Right now, it’s time to KICK OUT THE JAMS! We’ve got questions that are high in iron, and answers that are high in irony. And a Chef Detective that we’re hoping no one will have beef with, featuring advice from Samin's old cooking colleague Emily Su-Bowden.

For recipes, Home Cooking merch, and a transcript of this episode, visit homecooking.show.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Willa Paskin, the host of Decoder Ring, Slate's podcast about cracking cultural mysteries.
0:06.4	On Decoder Ring, we dive down rabbit holes and obsessively explore questions hiding in plain sight.
0:11.6	Like, why has slow dancing gone out of style?
0:14.6	And when did we all become obsessed with hydration?
0:17.2	And where did the word mullet, you know, to describe a hairstyle come from? That's Decodering,
0:24.0	named one of the best podcasts of 2003 by the New York Times. Listen to new episodes every two weeks
0:30.0	and make sure to follow us so you never miss one. Are you first or am I first? You're going to do
0:35.4	all of it. You're going to do both lines. Oh, okay. Hi, I'm Samin. And I'm Rishi. And we're home cooking.
0:43.5	Then I have to say, what episode number on?
0:46.0	Oh, this is episode 20 of our four-part series.
0:50.0	Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Charming joke here.
0:53.0	Or not so charming joke.
0:56.3	No notes.
0:58.4	Oh, I did a great job?
0:59.7	Yeah, that was great.
1:01.2	Wow, I'm so good at this.
1:02.9	This is our new season.
1:05.0	It's our new season under the sun.
1:09.5	Please don't put that in.
1:11.1	Oh, 100% that put that in. Oh,
1:11.3	100% that's going in.
1:15.3	I don't know what came over.
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