Dan Pashman
Dan Pashman is an American podcast host. He is the host of The Sporkful, a food podcast. He is the inventor of the pasta shape cascatelli.
Early life and education
Pashman grew in New Jersey in what he describes as a "food obsessed" Jewish family.[1] He graduated from Tufts University in 1999.[2]
Career
After graduating from Tufts, Pashman worked in news radio. After being laid off six times over eight years, he decided to start his own podcast which would give him professional independence.[1]
He started his podcast The Sporkful in 2010. 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.[3]
In 2014, Pashman published the book Eat More Better: How to Make Every Bite More Delicious.[4] 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.[5]
In 2015, Pashman's show You're Eating It Wrong premiered on the Cooking Channel.[6]
In 2019, Pashman recorded The Sporkful in front of a live audience across the United States.[7]
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. The resulting shape was named Cascatelli, from cascata, the Italian word for waterfall.[8][9][10][11][12] Over the three year period, Pashman "brought together attributes from different shapes that I especially like that have never been brought together in this way before."[13]
In 2021, Pashman signed with CAA.[7]
In 2024, Pashman published the book Anything's Pastable: 81 Inventive Pasta Recipes for Saucy People.[14][15]
Awards and honors
Pashman is a three time James Beard Award winner.[16] He has won the Webby Award two times.[17]
Personal life
Pashman and his wife Janie have two daughters.[3]
References
- ^ a b "Jewish Podcaster Dan Pashman Dishes on His Love of Pasta, Lox and Challah | the Nosher". 3 October 2022.
- ^ "Mission: ImPASTAble - A culinary evening with the Sporkful's Dan Pashman | Tufts Alumni".
- ^ a b Hirsch, Jesse (November 17, 2015). "In the Kitchen with Dan Pashman".
- ^ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/dan-pashman/eat-more-better/
- ^ https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/eat-more-better-how-to-make-every-bite-more-delicious
- ^ https://www.npr.org/2015/11/01/453632517/food-guru-says-youre-eating-it-wrong
- ^ a b White, Peter (September 10, 2021). "Dan Pashman, Host Of Food Podcast 'The Sporkful', Signs With CAA".
- ^ 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.
- ^ Zhang, Jenny G. (March 22, 2021). "Spring's Hottest Drop Is This New Shape of Pasta". Eater.
- ^ "The Story of How a New Pasta Took Shape".
- ^ "A James Beard Award-winning podcaster created a new pasta shape for optimal 'forkability' and 'sauceability' — here's a recipe to test his theory". 31 May 2021.
- ^ Glenn, Heidi (22 March 2021). "For Pasta Lovers Bored By Spaghetti, There's A New Short, Wavy, Sauce-Holding Shape". NPR.
- ^ "'Anything's Pastable': Dan Pashman explores saucy recipes in new cookbook". 30 April 2024.
- ^ https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780063291126
- ^ "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.