Miss The Cook is Back
misSPELLING
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Cooking was once Tori’s happy place - until it wasn’t. How cooking went from pure bliss to pure hell in the blink of a divorce. Now, she’s back in the kitchen and rediscovering how much joy food can bring.
Tori gets real about making dinner for five kids with very different tastes, the family recipes that bring them together, and how food has become an unexpected source of healing. She opens up about why she stopped cooking, the anxiety and triggers that kept her away, and what it took to start again.
Get ready for kitchen confessions, comfort food, and maybe even going back to her famous baked potato!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. |
| 0:08.5 | Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why? |
| 0:15.1 | Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. |
| 0:18.5 | From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi. |
| 0:23.9 | What difference at this point does it make? |
| 0:27.4 | Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:33.4 | You know, Miss Spelling with Tori spelling and Iheart radio podcast. |
| 0:48.3 | Okay, so today I want to talk about cooking because cooking has been such a huge part of my life. |
| 0:57.0 | And growing up, you know, things are very different. |
| 1:00.0 | We had a chef off and on. |
| 1:02.0 | Like I basically self taught myself how to cook. |
| 1:06.9 | When I moved out when I was 18, I was super excited to do everything myself because |
| 1:14.1 | growing up, it was very different. We had, there was always staff and people to help us. And I really |
| 1:21.1 | wanted to kind of branch out. So I remember the first thing I made when I moved into my apartment was spaghetti because I was like, oh, that's easy. |
| 1:31.0 | So, I mean, half of it ended up on the ceiling. |
| 1:34.8 | But from then on, I just loved cooking. |
| 1:38.5 | And I was like, oh, my gosh, when I have kids, I'm just going to cook my butt off. |
| 1:42.2 | And I did for years. I was like, that was my happy place, |
| 1:46.8 | being in the kitchen, cooking for the kids. And Dean went to culinary school when I was pregnant |
| 1:53.8 | with Hattie. And I was so excited for him to do that. But that's like my dream. Like that's one of my dreams is to go to |
| 2:03.1 | culinary school. Now I'm 52 and I'm like, oh, I'll be like the oldest person in culinary school. |
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