Once a product

product is really, really associated with women, men won't buy it.

Coke Zero was developed because we needed the male alternative for Diet Coke,

basically, because Diet Coke was a female

beverage. So I think that other companies were like a little bit reticent at

times even if women liked their products to like fully fully

fully embrace being associated with like a very girly type of femininity.

And Stanley said, well, if that's who wants our product, that's who we're marketing to.

Come on, ladies. This is the Sport of Fall. It's not for foodies, it's for eaters.

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Quick note here at the top that we have finalized my anything's possible book tour.

These are live sportful tapings and book signings.

It starts in New York City where I'll be in conversation with Clarissa. Fork full taping and book signings.

It starts in New York City where I'll be in conversation with Claire Safets,

then Long Island with Top Chef Star Gail Simmons,

and then all over the country.

I'm probably coming to somewhere near you.

Get all the info at sporkful dot com slash tour.

Let's jump into it today we are back with another salad spinner edition of the

sporkful this is our rapid-fire roundtable discussion of the biggest, strangest, and most surprising food stories at the moment.

It's a pretty southern salad spinner today. Joining me in the spinner are two very special guests in

Kinsden, North Carolina we have Vivian Howard, the award-winning cookbook author, TV host,

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