Hey everyone, Dan here with another sportful reheat for you. And if you are in the mood to smile, laugh, and think deeply about cookies, I have the episode for you. This one was recorded with my friends and occasional collaborator, Simi Nostrad and Rishi Kesh Hurway, who you may know from their respective Netflix shows and podcasts and a lot of other creative projects.

Now, the three of us spoke deep in the pandemic doldrums of fall 2020.

Rather than focus on the negative, we decided we're going to do this episode about pure cookie-related escapism.

And boy, do we have fun making this one.

As always, if there's an episode of the Sporkful, you'd like us to pull out of the deep freezer, please let us know. Send me an email or voice memo to hello at sporkful.com.

Don't forget to include your first name, location, which episode you'd like us to reheat and why.

Thanks so much and enjoy my conversation with Samin and Rishi.

Now, we've got a few different things to cover here, but I think first we're going to clear the air here a little bit, Samin.

What?

Because I...

Have I wronged you?

Well, I sent a question into your podcast.

Oh, that's right.

I can't remember.

I just remember I was rude to you.

Yeah, even though the question was about olives, you two have beef.

Uh-oh. You're already starting. You're doing it to his podcast now?

This is the sporkful. It is not for foodies. It is for eaters. I'm Dan Pashman. Each week on our show, we obsess about food to learn more about people. Now, you know that we sometimes get into pretty heavy topics here. But I'm going to tell you right off the top, this is not going to be one of those episodes. We are going for pure escapism. Here we go. Samin Nasrat and Rishi

Kees Hirway are friends, creators, and food lovers. Samin was on our show before after the release

of her cookbook, Salt, fat, acid heat, which went on to become a hit Netflix docu-series.

Rishi is best known as the host of the music podcast Song Exploder, which I love, and which also recently became a Netflix series. Rishi is best known as the host of the music podcast Song Exploder, which I love,

and which also recently became a Netflix series. But as you'll hear, he's got planning to say

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