Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I am Bail of Jesse Thorne. And with me, as always, is Judge John Hodgman. We're about to clear this docket. That's right, Jesse. I am still here in my summer chambers at W.E.R.U in Orland, Maine, WERU.org. Listen and donate if you wish. I here with a program and operation director K-pop Joel

man hello Joel hello judge now Joel I'm not using your family ancestral gavel today

I'm heartbroken well too bad because I'm going back to uh my old main makeshift gavel a can

of Stuart Sheldbeans which I picked up at the Hannaford on the

way in.

I am using the can of Stuart Sheld Beans because I love them.

This docket also is about food and not just food, but comfort food.

And these are a comfort to my soul.

Love you, Stuart, Shell, Beans.

I saw they were on the bottom shelf of the store and they said, close out, Joel.

I think they're getting done with these.

Uh-oh.

I'm going to stockpile them.

And we are talking about comfort food today.

And we have two extremely special and beloved and wonderful guests to help us clear this docket.

Jesse, why don't you introduce them?

Our guests are two brilliant and beloved food writers, food thinkers, food cookers, Kenji

Lopez Alt and Deb Pearlman.

Kenji is the chief culinary advisor at Sirius Eats.

He's also the best-selling author of The Food Lab, The Walk, and the children's book Every Night is Pizza Night.

Deb Perlman, of course, is the founder of the wildly popular and influential food blog, Smitten Kitchen.

She's also the best-selling author of three smitten kitchen cookbooks.

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