- 10
- Episodes
- 5
- Transcribed
- 37
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2026
- First episode
About Gastronomics
Gastronomics is about the business of food. In each episode, Planet Money author Alex Mayyasi talks to chefs, economists, and people with insights and stories about how economics shapes the modern menu. Meet a trend forecaster who tracks thousands of menus to know exactly when restaurants should start serving yuzu lemonade or ube pancakes. Discover how Best Restaurant lists get made. And learn why billionaires like Bill Gates buy lots and lots of farmland. Subscribe here, on YouTube, or any podcast player. And subscribe for email updates at gastronomicspodcast.com.
- Publisher
- Alex Mayyasi
- Category
- business · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 7 Apr 2026
- Latest episode
- 14 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
5 of 10 episodes have a transcript.
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Status-Symbol Beef, Reservation Wars, and the Rise of Chicken Thighs
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Asparagus, the War on Drugs, and Cheap Flights to Machu Picchu
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Can Private Equity Scale (Good) Bagels?
2 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Was the Price of Eggs a Conspiracy?
25 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
How to Run Your Dream Restaurant Like a Business
29 Jul 2026
Why a China Scholar Started a Tea Business
9 Jul 2026
How top chefs unknowingly do R&D for Applebee's
27 Jun 2026
Aldi Is Unbundling the Grocery Store
10 Jun 2026
The secret life of the Domino's pizza tracker
7 Apr 2026
Introducing Gastronomics
Inside a recent episode
Status-Symbol Beef, Reservation Wars, and the Rise of Chicken Thighs
Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Even 2019, the fried chicken sandwich wars that involved Popeyes and Chick-fil-A, those were not chicken thighs. And so you think about how this change has happened. It's happened rapidly. And again, this is talking about broad mainstream appetites as opposed to different ethnic enclaves and traditional cooking where you see the chicken thigh pretty formidably in the traditions there. It is a bit different to see it go mainstream and become such a heralded cut of meat. Do you have a strong stance here? Is the chicken thigh just better than a chicken breast? I've talked to a lot of people about this. […]
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- Adam Chandler
- Louis Lin
- Jolyn Chen
- Josh Freedman
- Lizzy Freier
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 28 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 9 ratings
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