With Bowl and Spoon

About With Bowl and Spoon

With Bowl and Spoon is a podcast about people’s personal food evolution—the journeys that shape how we eat, cook, grow, and share food. Host Shelly Danko+Day sits down with guests to explore family traditions, culture, friendship, and lived experiences that shape our connections to food. Each episode digs into food memories, resilience, creativity, and meaning. From cooking and gardening to food justice, sustainability, and food systems, it’s for eaters, makers, cooks, gardeners, farmers, and anyone curious about food traditions, history, and stories.

Publisher

With Bowl and Spoon

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Dec 2020

Latest episode

23 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

104 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   23 Dec 2025

   Marcus Wyatt, Windy Bridges Brew

   Season 4, Episode 32 This week on With Bowl and Spoon, Shelly talks with Marcus Wyatt of Windy Bridges Brew about how a love of beer, community, and learning led him to start brewing his own. Marcus shares how growing up in Chicago and now calling Pittsburgh home inspired the name Windy Bridges, bringing together the Windy City and the City of Bridges. His brewing story began at an after-work happy hour where he was introduced to IPAs, followed by meeting a coworker who brewed mead, which sparked Marcus’s curiosity. His first homebrew was an imperial IPA that “wasn’t great, but it wasn’t bad either” which was enough to keep him brewing. Marcus talks about learning the craft through a homebrew kit, working and learning at Inner Groove Brewing, connecting with Day Bracey and the Barrel & Flow community, taking part in Point Park’s brewing program, and earning his Level 1 Cicerone certification. Now, he’s putting all of that learning into practice in his two-car garage brewery, supported and encouraged by other brewers along the way and backed fully by his family, including his daughter running social media. Food and culture are central to Marcus’s brewing vision, with soul food influences like banana pudding, and sweet potato shaping the flavors he’s excited to explore. You won’t find Windy Bridges Brew out in the wild just yet, but batches are brewing, tastings are happening, and conversations are underway about getting beer on tap and in cans. Follow @windybridgesbrew on socials, and keep an ear out... there are whispers of exciting things ahead. Photo credit for this episode: Lucy Schaly

2. 

   12 Dec 2025

   Helena Shorter Alston — Kia Vida Superfoods

   This week on With Bowl and Spoon, Shelly sits down with Helena Shorter Alston, founder of Kia Vida Superfoods—a woman whose life has been steeped in food from the very beginning. Born into a family rooted in cooking, farming, and restaurant ownership, Helena was said to be cooking by age two! By 23 she had opened her first restaurant in the Poconos, driven by a simple belief that healthy food should taste good. Her lineage also carries a powerful legacy: her great-grandfather purchased 600 acres in Mississippi where he grew vegetables, raised animals, and gave food away to anyone who needed it. Helena’s relationship with food only deepened as she moved through the world. While serving in the Peace Corps in Senegal, she encountered Kinkeliba—a traditional West African plant that made such an impression that it later became part of her product line (once it became legal to sell in the U.S.). She went on to explore food science and technology, raise a family, travel widely, and even help feed students after school in Pittsburgh Public Schools. When her husband passed away from diabetes, Helena transformed her grief into purpose, moving her children to Europe to research food, develop recipes, and work on products aimed at preventing diabetes in her family and beyond. Today, Helena splits her time between Pittsburgh and Florida and leads Kia Vida Superfoods, crafting additive-free, nutrient-dense dehydrated meal kits and teas inspired by every chapter of her life. She’s a cook, a scientist, an educator, and an adventurer whose greatest joy is hearing from people who feel better because of what she makes. Learn more at kiavidasuperfoods.com or KiaVidaFNS.com.

3. 

   27 Nov 2025

   Sarah Kaminski — Best Ever Granola

   🎧 Season 4, Episode 30 This week on With Bowl and Spoon, I’m joined by Sarah Kaminski, founder of Best Ever Granola — a small-batch, vegan and gluten-free granola sweetened only with pure maple syrup. Before launching her granola business, Sarah worked as a health coach and created a recipe for her clients that eventually became the heart of her brand. A turning point in Sarah’s journey came after watching the documentary Fresh, which opened her eyes to the realities of our food system. Since then, she’s become intentional about what she eats — reading labels, paying attention to sourcing, and aligning her choices with her values. We talk about how she got started, the generosity of Pittsburgh’s local food community, and what goes into producing a truly high-quality granola. Sarah shares the new products she’s dreaming up, the mentors who’ve helped shape her work, and the role family and clarity of purpose play in building a life — and business — that reflects what matters most.

Who has been a guest on With Bowl and Spoon

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Madi Donaldson
• Joe Bardakos
• Doug Heilman
• Julian Figaretti
• HongChing Cheung

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.4 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 44 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

60

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

68