Get Thanksgiving Inspiration With These 10 Cooking Podcasts
There are funny food podcasts, chatty food podcasts, and then there are food podcasts that offer the techniques you need to actually improve your skills. These podcasts will help you cook better, especially if you’re hosting Thanksgiving this year or even just bringing something to your family. Their hosts will tell you exactly what to do—be prepared to take notes and get inspiration if you don’t know what to serve in the first place.
Dinner SOS
Impromptu vegan stopping by? Is anyone at the table a picky eater? A kitchen renovation is interfering with your Thanksgiving plans and you decide to use the grill? At Dinner SOS, Chris Morocco and a rotating guest expert listen to a caller’s biggest kitchen dilemma and give them not one, but two solutions. The caller will select one, test it and report back. There are several Thanksgiving-themed episodes that feature cooking Thanksgiving for two, brainstorming dishes that travel well, and other topics that may be the answer to your holiday prayers.
Recipe Club
In Recipe Club, David Chang gathers a group of chefs to pick recipes, or even just ingredients, and find the best way to prepare them. This isn’t just a cooking podcast; this is a competition. Each week, David et al choose one dish, go to their home to cook it, and then report back with what they would do differently and whether they would cook it again or not. And, of course, they decide who has the best technology. There are episodes on stuffing, turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans and frozen pie crust, as well as SPAM, canned fish, Bloody Marys, plant-based meat substitutes, Wonder Bread, butter and more. There is also an episode entirely dedicated to Thanksgiving. The Boboli episode might not be a good one for Thanksgiving (then again, why not? Sounds good!), but it’s one of the funniest food podcast episodes I’ve ever heard.
Cooking up a storm
If you have no idea where to start planning your Thanksgiving dinner, take a look at Al Roker’s Cooking Up a Storm podcast, which is essentially a complete holiday dinner menu. Each episode is a new dish prepared by a famous person in the culinary world. You’ll love Sohla El-Waylly’s crispy and juicy Roast Turkey with Herbs and Honey Thyme Sauce. What’s Thanksgiving without sides? Try Marcus Samuelsson’s caramelized Brussels sprouts and Ina Garten’s parmesan mashed potatoes. Dessert is a sweet potato and plantain pie from Maya-Camille Broussard.
Soul Food Capsule
If you’re thinking about making Southern soul food for Thanksgiving, don’t hesitate to enlist the help of Shonda Necole, cookbook author, food blogger, and host of The Soul Food Pod —your helpful guide to making delicious chicken breast, Southern tea cakes, and shrimp and grits and much more. One episode is an ode to the Southern turkey recipe; There are also episodes that take you step-by-step through turkey dressing recipes, candied sweet potato recipes, and sweet potato pie recipes. Shaunda is fun and creative in the kitchen and will inspire you to try something new or change up a longtime favorite.
One recipe
What is this recipe that has been passed down to you from generation to generation, that you tell everyone about and cook at every party? This is the question at the heart of The One Prescription . Hosted by Jesse Sparks, senior editor at Eater, he invites some of the big names in food to share their advice (as well as the expert advice available), which always results in some great stories. And who doesn’t want to try Adrienne Cheatham’s sweet potato gnocchi with bacon-miso sauce or Yotam Ottolenghi’s brown sugar meringue roll with toasted honey apples? You will be the hero of your Thanksgiving.
Home kitchen
Home Cooking began as a miniseries to help people cook during the pandemic, but has continued somewhat sporadically in hopes of inspiring people in the kitchen. Samin Nosrat (chef and author of the cookbook Salt Fat Acid Heat) and Hrishikesh Hirway (creator and host of the podcast Song Exploder ) interview people like Jason Mantzoukas and Antoni Porowski about the dishes they love and help listeners cope with specific family problems. recipes and what to do with kohlrabi. There are tons of Thanksgiving-themed episodes. One of them is about how to improve those recipes that you feel like you should make but don’t really want to. (Let’s make green bean casserole great!) Sameen and Hrishikesh are friendly and fun, and they have awesome guests including Camila Cabello, Jason Mantzoukas, Sam Sanders and Yo-Yo Ma.
Recipe with Kenji and Deb
Looking for a podcast to make your Thanksgiving preparations easier? This recipe with Kenji and Deb is exactly what you need. Hosted by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (Serious Eats, The Food Lab, The Wok) and Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen, this podcast is organized by dish; each one is a deep dive into what J. Kenji and Deb learned after cooking, testing, and tweaking said dishes dozens of times. They’ve perfected mac and cheese so you don’t have to, and they’ve broken it all down into simple tips and tricks that make even the most challenging dishes seem achievable.
Magnificent table
The Splendid Table is a good show to tune into while you cook. Led by award-winning food journalist Francis Lam, you’ll find recipes as well as plenty of inspiring conversations and interviews. This is the place to go if you know you want to up your spice, seafood, bread and more game and want to be more philosophical about it. This looks like a great kitchen event where you will be inspired by Francis and his guests. The series has hundreds of episodes, so there’s likely to be something that matches exactly what you’re looking for.
Recipe of the day
Recipe of the Day is exactly what you think it is: one short episode per day, brought to you by cookbook author and food writer Christine Pittma. The coolest thing about it is that as fall starts to pick up steam, every episode becomes something screaming to get into your Thanksgiving special. So look through the fall months—I immediately see cubes of butternut squash in the air fryer, knives, pumpkin soup, and perfectly roasted turkey—not only to figure out how to master what you want to cook, but also to get inspired what you want to do. you want to serve.
She’s my cherry pie
Even the best cooks I know could use some help when it comes to baking, and that’s where She’s My Cherry Pie comes in. Every week, baker, author, and recipe developer Jesse Sheehan invites pastry chefs, bakers, and food creators to zoom in on the experience. in one of their signature baked goods. The episodes are carefully thought out and even difficult things seem doable. But She’s My Cherry Pie isn’t just for beginners—even seasoned bakers can learn new tips and tricks and be inspired by Jessie’s enthusiasm and great recipe combinations. If you’re in charge of dessert this Thanksgiving, listen to the Caramel Pumpkin Pie episode or try something a little less traditional. No one will complain that there is no pecan pie if you have croutons, fruit cobblers or chocolate chip cookies.