Home Cooking

About Home Cooking

From Samin Nosrat (chef and author of Good Things and Salt Fat Acid Heat) and Hrishikesh Hirway (creator and host of the podcast Song Exploder), Home Cooking is back with a brand new season. If you need help in the kitchen, or just want some creative inspiration, we’ve got you covered.

Publisher

Samin Nosrat & Hrishikesh Hirway

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Mar 2020

Latest episode

5 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

10 of 29 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   5 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Chana-kah Masala (with Helen Zaltzman and Josey Baker)

   Jingle Bells, caramels Do those two things rhyme? My flour smells, you can tell It spoils over time! Hey! Tis the season for our season to come to a close, so we are wrapping things up (like a gift) with our friends Josey Baker, (https://www.joseybakerbread.com/)to help us level up our bread game; and Helen Zaltzman, (https://www.theallusionist.org/) to help us level up our word game. For recipes, Home Cooking merch, and a transcript of this episode, visit homecooking.show. (https://homecooking.show/27)

2. 

   21 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Our Stuffing Ourselves

   We're back with a Thanksgiving special! Samin has a cold, and a cold-pressed juicer, but Hrishi's got some mildly spicy jokes (which is why we have our first ever explicit-ish language warning). For this episode, we’re finding new ways to honor old Thanksgiving traditions. But one thing is true forever: kids just eat rolls. For recipes, Home Cooking merch, and a transcript of this episode, visit homecooking.show. (https://homecooking.show/26)

3. 

   7 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Full of Pith and Vinegar (with Kate Lebo)

   The poet and piemaker Kate Lebo (https://katelebo.com/) joins us to help discuss her book "The Book of Difficult Fruit," (https://katelebo.com/the-book-of-difficult-fruit/)which inspired this episode! We meddle with some medlars and try to make some prickly pears less prickly. Don’t take your pommes for granted! For recipes, Home Cooking merch, and a transcript of this episode, visit homecooking.show. (https://homecooking.show/25)

Inside a recent episode

Chana-kah Masala (with Helen Zaltzman and Josey Baker)

Published 5 Dec 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And so vanilla is kind of this amazing thing because its power is just so, so, so strongly aromatic. And it makes a very beautiful compliment to sugar. So there is a way where like vanilla in our minds has become a substitute for sweetness. Even though it itself is not sweet, there's not a sugar molecule in there. It's a substitute in our minds for sweetness. Yeah, I remember as a little kid trying a drop of vanilla extract, thinking that it was going to taste like vanilla ice cream. And then you're like, it's booze? Yeah, it was not a good surprise. No, it's not a good surprise. And so I think because vanilla is so labor intensive and hence expensive to produce, at some point along the way people developed an artificial vanilla flavor, which is not at all as complex, as multilayered, as rich, as true vanilla. […]

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

4,859 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 49 / 100

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Quality

60

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

94

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