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The Sporkful

Book Tour 2: How’d You Get So Good At Failure?

The Sporkful

SiriusXM Podcasts

Arts

4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In the second half of our Best of the Book Tour series, we’re answering your questions! We’ll tackle the most frequently asked questions Dan got on the tour, and the ones he never saw coming. Plus we’ll hear from other folks who worked on Anything’s Pastable about the recipes that were cut from the book, and the ones that created the most conflict between Dan and his collaborators.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I feel like in my heart of hearts I really am a very old Italian grandmother.

0:09.0

This is Katie Laird, one of the recipe developers who I collaborated with on my cookbook

0:12.8

anything's possible. Katie's lived and cooked professionally in Italy

0:16.5

which is why we nicknamed her super known.

0:18.8

And you know it's a little bit ironic because I'm I mean I'm 40 I have little kids so I'm really not a

0:25.3

grandmother at all and I'm Estonian I have no Italian blood in me I did use a sperm donor for my children, TMI, but, you know, like when...

0:38.0

This is the moment for TMI.

0:39.0

This is the moment, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, you guys all care. When I used a sperm donor, you know, you get what you pay for,

0:47.6

and I was like, if I can pay for my kids to be a little Italian,

0:51.5

I will.

0:52.1

Yeah, I was like, you you know height I can sacrifice but make

0:55.9

him a little Italian. This is the Sportful. It's not for Foodies. It's for eaters. I'm Lindy West.

1:10.2

I'm Kailani Palmasano. I'm Kim, Kim Severson. I'm Joanne Lee Molinaro. Each week on this show we

1:17.6

obsessed about food to learn more about people. And tonight we're coming to you

1:22.3

live from Chow Now in Los Angeles.

1:25.0

From Gramercy Theater in New York City.

1:27.0

From Swedish American Hall in San Francisco.

1:30.0

From everybody's coffee in Chicago.

1:33.5

From W-B-U-R-City Space in Boston. This week we're bringing you the second half of our best of the book tour series.

1:53.6

Six weeks, 10 live sporkful tapings in 10 cities, all in celebration or the release of my first

1:59.1

cookbook anything's possible.

2:00.8

Last week we brought you some highlights from my conversations with hosts across the tour.

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