Flavorphiles

For Talk Like a Pirate Day, Tanner and Jerry dig into the surprisingly strange food and drink history of life at sea. We start with what pirates actually ate, why their diet could sometimes give them an advantage over...

Fall is farmers market season, but what does that actually mean when you live somewhere like Dallas? This week on Flavorphiles, Tanner and Jerry head into fall with a Harvest Highball made with applejack, an old-school...

Judging food is fun. Whether you’re ranking the best chefs on TV, challenging your friends to a ridiculous eating competition, or silently keeping score of everything a restaurant gets wrong, we all do it. This week...

Bitter gets a bad rap. We’re basically born suspicious of it, kids hate it, and yet somehow adults end up obsessed with coffee, dark chocolate, bitter greens, amaro, and aggressively hoppy beer. This week on...

This week on Flavorphiles, we are committing crimes against food. Allegedly. Tanner and Jerry dig into the strange, sticky, and surprisingly sophisticated world of food true crime. First, Tanner introduces the Amuse...

This week, we’re taking a bite out of New Zealand. Tanner used to live in NZ, so he’s guiding Jerry through the foods, flavors, and extremely specific Kiwi words that make the country’s cuisine so much more than lamb...

Whiskey can feel like it comes with homework. Scotch, bourbon, rye, Irish whiskey, Japanese whisky, Canadian whisky, age statements, ice rules, spelling arguments; it is a lot of brown liquid with a lot of opinions...

In celebration of National Mustard Day, Flavorphiles is bringing the heat, just not the hot sauce. This week, Tanner and Jerry dive into the world of spicy condiments, from chili crisp and horseradish to hot mustard...

This week on Flavorphiles, we turn up the volume for an episode all about the strange, funny, and surprisingly important relationship between food and music. Jerry returns to his roots as a longtime radio DJ with a...

Restaurants used to be places you went to eat. Now they’re also places you go to post, flex, film, and prove you were there. This week on Flavorphiles, Tanner and Jerry look at the rise of dining out for clout. We start...

Great food does not have to come with a luxury price tag. In this episode of Flavorphiles, Tanner and Jerry dig into the places, dishes, and techniques that prove affordable food can still be serious, memorable, and...

This week on Flavorphiles, Tanner and Jerry head to the farmers’ market to figure out what is actually worth buying—and how to keep your ambitious haul from becoming expensive compost. Tanner starts with the best things...

Canada Day and the Fourth of July are approaching, which means it’s time to fire up the grill, load the cooler, and make a few decisions that could determine whether your backyard party becomes legendary or a small...

This week on Flavorphiles, we’re going Into the Wild— but not in a “survive on bark and make friends with a squirrel” kind of way. Tanner and Jerry start with how to seriously upgrade your picnic, car camping, or...

Do cookbooks still matter, or have they become expensive decorations for people who mostly cook from TikTok? This week on Flavorphiles, Tanner and Jerry crack open the cookbook shelf to ask why we buy cookbooks and what...