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The Sporkful

What’s It Like To Cook With A Brain Injury?

The Sporkful

SiriusXM Podcasts

Arts

4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

How does a traumatic brain injury affect the way you cook and eat? Filmmaker Cheryl Green, who has a brain injury, satirizes her own experiences in the kitchen in a short video called “Cooking With Brain Injury.”

Transcript

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0:00.0

This XM Podcasts.

0:07.0

This episode contains explicit language.

0:14.0

Hi everyone, welcome to cooking with brain injury.

0:18.0

Today we'll be cooking with brain injury. I mean cooking salmon with brain injury.

0:24.6

Uh, no, the salmon doesn't have a brain injury.

0:27.6

Well, I don't have its head anymore.

0:30.6

I just mean that we have a brain injury.

0:32.6

Bill and me, we're brain injured.

0:35.6

How about that?

0:42.3

This is the Sporkful. It's not for foodies, it's for eaters. I'm Dan Pashman. Each week on our show, we obsess about food to learn more about people. And have I got a holiday shopping tip for you, my friends? I know the season's kicking off. Well, guess what Svalini, who make all of my fantastic pastas, is having a huge Black Friday Cyber Monday sale. It kicks off today, and it's going for the next week. It's 20% off site-wide. No code needed. You can stock up on my cascatelli, Vesuvio, and Quatratrini.

1:12.8

You can also pick up our limited edition sporkful pack just for the holidays. There's Calabrian chili

1:18.3

cascatelli, saffron Vesuvio, and garlic quatrotini. We've never made these shapes with these

1:24.3

special flavors before. Limited time only, only for the holidays. You can get these or the classic original flavor pastas, 20% off through December 1st.

1:32.3

No code needed discount automatically apply to checkout.

1:35.3

So head over now to Svalini.com.

1:38.4

That's S-F-O-G-L-I-N-I.com.

1:42.7

One more quick thing as we get closer to the end of the year, it's time for our very special

1:46.2

tradition. I want to hear your New Year's food resolutions. I'm also thinking about my own. What food

1:51.1

will I resolve to eat more of in the new year? What food will you resolve to eat more of in the

1:56.3

new year? And why? Send me an email or voice memo to hello at sporkful.com. Tell me your first name,

2:02.5

location, what food you resolved to eat more of in the new year, and why? And you might hear

2:06.2

yourself right here on the Sporkful. All right, enough preamble. Let's get to the show.

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