Dan Pashman
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Dan Pashman (born April 10, 1977)[1] is an American podcast host and author. He is the host of the culinary podcast The Sporkful, which TIME named one of the 100 Best Podcasts Of All Time[2]. He's also the inventor of the Cascatelli pasta shape.[3]
Early life and education
[edit]Pashman grew up in New Jersey in what he describes as a "food obsessed" Jewish family.[4] He graduated from Tufts University in 1999.[5]
Career
[edit]After graduating, Pashman worked in news radio and print journalism. He was employed by NPR, Air America Radio, Vanity Fair, and the Washington Post.[6] After being laid off six times over eight years, he decided to start his own podcast to give himself professional independence,[4] and launched The Sporkful in 2010 with the motto "It's not for foodies, it's for eaters." It "steered clear of the common tropes" found in food media at the time which were geared towards "foodies" and instead explored topics that could be appreciated by anyone.[7] He toured the podcast in 2019 across the United States.[8]
In 2014, Pashman published the book Eat More Better: How to Make Every Bite More Delicious.[9] The book is written as if it were the textbook of the fictional Sporkful University, with the chapters titled after the names of typical college subjects.[10] The following year, he presented You're Eating It Wrong on the Cooking Channel.[11] In 2024, Pashman published the book Anything's Pastable: 81 Inventive Pasta Recipes for Saucy People.[12] The book contains many recipes that incorporate non-Italian ingredients including Thai curry paste and Ritz crackers and encourages the use of shortcuts bought at the grocery store like packaged gnocchi and tortellini and jarred tomato sauce.[13]
From 2018 to 2021, Pashman, in collaboration with the New York pasta company Sfoglini, worked on a new pasta shape that would hold sauce more efficiently. Over the three year period, he took attributes that he liked from various pasta shapes and combined them to form an ideal pasta. The resulting shape was named cascatelli, from cascata, the Italian word for waterfall. It is composed of a flat strip with ruffles at 90-degree angles.[14][15][16] The pasta was named by TIME as one of the Best Inventions of the Year[17]. He later documented the process of creating the pasta in a five-part podcast series entitled Mission: ImPASTAble, which the New York Times named one of the Best Podcasts Of The Year.[18]
Awards and honors
[edit]Pashman is a three time James Beard Award winner.[19] He has won two Webby Awards.[20]
Personal life
[edit]Pashman and his wife have two daughters.[7] They live outside New York City.[21] He has a nephew named Gabriel Fossner.
References
[edit]- ↑ (20+) Happy 40th birthday to my brother... - The Sporkful with Dan Pashman | Facebook
- ↑ Dockterman, Eliana (July 23, 2025). "'The Sporkful': 100 Best Podcasts".
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- 1 2 "Jewish Podcaster Dan Pashman Dishes on His Love of Pasta, Lox and Challah | the Nosher". October 3, 2022.
- ↑ "Mission: ImPASTAble - A culinary evening with the Sporkful's Dan Pashman | Tufts Alumni".
- ↑ Murray, Marnely (August 12, 2015). "'Eat More Better' with Dan Pashman". The Martha's Vineyard Times.
- 1 2 Hirsch, Jesse (November 17, 2015). "In the Kitchen with Dan Pashman".
- ↑ White, Peter (September 10, 2021). "Dan Pashman, Host Of Food Podcast 'The Sporkful', Signs With CAA".
- ↑ "EAT MORE BETTER | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
- ↑ Bulson, Christine E. "Eat More Better: How To Make Every Bite More Delicious". Library Journal.
- ↑ "Food Guru Says 'You're Eating It Wrong'". NPR. November 2015.
- ↑ "'Anything's Pastable': Dan Pashman explores saucy recipes in new cookbook". April 30, 2024.
- ↑ "Anything's Pastable: 81 Inventive Pasta Recipes for Saucy People by Dan Pashman".
- ↑ Glenn, Heidi (March 22, 2021). "For Pasta Lovers Bored By Spaghetti, There's A New Short, Wavy, Sauce-Holding Shape". NPR.
- ↑ Fabricant, Florence (April 5, 2021). "A New Pasta Shape for Your Pantry". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
- ↑ Nero, Dom (March 31, 2021). "He Spent Three Years Inventing a Pasta Shape. It Puts Spaghetti to Shame". Esquire.
- ↑ "Sfoglini Cascatelli: The 100 Best Inventions of 2021". TIME. November 10, 2021. Retrieved March 24, 2026.
- ↑ Zhang, Jenny G. (March 22, 2021). "Spring's Hottest Drop Is This New Shape of Pasta". Eater.
- ↑ "Cooking with James Beard Award-Winner Dan Pashman from the Sporkful". New York Kitchen.
- ↑ "'The Sporkful' host Dan Pashman on pasta, podcasting and imposter syndrome". WUSF. March 21, 2024.
- ↑ "Award-Winning Pasta Shape Inventor & Cookbook Author, Dan Pashman, coming to Canandaigua". www.visitfingerlakes.com. September 17, 2024.