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This Is TASTE695: Holiday Cookie Boot Camp with Vaughn Vreeland & Marissa RothkopfVaughn Vreeland is a cookbook author, NYT Cooking writer, and longtime video personality—or, as he writes, “that guy from that thing I saw once.” His first book, Cookies: The Best Recipes for the Perfect Anytime Treat, was published in collaboration with NYT Cooking and includes 100 amazing cookie recipes from Vaughn along with a deep bench of recipe developers from the New York Times orbit. We had such a fun time talking with Vaughn about how to win your office holiday cookie competition and some of the creative recipes he’s included in this great book. Also, it's cookie week at...
2025-12-011h 14
GoalChatComfort Food with Aaron Hamburger, Natalie Kalmar & Marissa RothkopfOn this episode of GoalChat, host Debra Eckerling talks about Comfort Food with food writer, baker, and novelist Aaron Hamburger (Hotel Cuba); Natalie Kalmar, founder of Fitness Foodie STL, and Marissa Rothkopf, author of The Secret Life of Chocolate Chip Cookies and host of The Secret Life of Cookies. They cover community, cookies, food advocacy, and so much more.
Goals
- Natalie: Stop shaming yourself for enjoying things that bring you comfort. Enjoy it! Also remember moderation
- Marissa: Share with others, if you are able to, whether it's bake...
2025-11-131h 07
The Watchung Booksellers PodcastEpisode 56: Cook by the BookIn this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, food writer Marissa Rothkopf Bates and bookseller Nicole Ban talk about the joy of cooking and cookbook reading. Marissa Rothkopf Bates is the creator and host of The Secret Life of Cookies podcast. A professionally trained chef and journalist, she writes for The New York Times, Newsweek, Food52, and Publishers Weekly. Her first cookbook The Secret Life of Chocolate Chip Cookies was released in September. Nicole Ban is a lifelong New Jersey resident who began her bookstore career at B. Dalton. After a lo...
2025-10-1455 min
Infinite TBRE35: 4th Annual MGSBST Part Two - Vengeance Can Be Fun with Your FriendsSmack and Gabi continue to face off in their 4th Annual Showdown Throwdown in which we compete to see who had the better reading experience during Mysterious Galaxy’s Summer Bingo. This round, Smack is up against a super fun dark academia trilogy that ended up being one of Gabi’s all-time favorite reads, Gabi has to contend with some nonfiction and memoir powerhouses that Smack read, and we both benefit from an incredible collection of speculative short stories.
In this part two of two, the books showdowned throwdowned include:
A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose...
2024-12-151h 03
The Well-Seasoned Librarian: Mixing Cookbooks and ConversationMarissa Rothkopf Bates (The Secret Life of Cookies/New York Times/Newsweek) Well Seasoned Librarian Podcast Season 9 Episode 21Bio:
Marissa Rothkopf Bates writes about food for the New York Times, Newsweek (RIP) and Publishers’ Weekly, among others. For Newsweek she wrote the “Gadget Lust” column, where she reviewed all manner of weird and inventive kitchen technologies. She is currently working on a book about the history of technology and innovation in the American kitchen. Marissa has worked at SPY magazine (a long time ago, when she was very little); Nickelodeon, CondéNast, Hearst and helped launch Oxygen television when it was still a network for women. She enjoys writing about herself in the third person in her...
2023-02-1353 min
Spilling ChaiS5 E5 The Secret Life of Cookies with Marissa Rothkopf BatesThe kitchen is normally thought of a space confined to women or rather where women have been confined. Anushay speaks with food writer, baker, and passionate eater, Marissa Rothkopf Bates about her work and her podcast, "The Secret Life of Cookies" where she flips the script on how we think of the spaces women occupy. And of course, the love that goes into baking and eating cookies.
2023-01-2530 min
#SistersInLawNever a bad time for the Indigo GirlsThe #SistersInLaw come together to lament the recent mass shootings and look at the ways red flag laws and other legal remedies can make us safer. They also examine the growing threat of dark money on the SCOTUS and the wider judicial system, followed by a discussion of the role special counsel Jack Smith will play in investigating Trump— with an update on the progress of the growing number of cases against him.
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2022-11-261h 03
The Mary Trump ShowStrategy Session #2 with Adam Parkhomenko, Rachel Vindman & Marissa RothkopfMary Trump breaks down the depth of Donald’s corruption and is joined by Rachel Vindman, Adam Parkhomenko, and Melissa Rothkopf for a meeting of minds to come up with a strategy that will help the Democrats win in November. They discuss the need to retake words like patriotism, to vote for democracy over authoritarianism, finding exciting local candidates, and the person to person nature of winning at the grassroots level.
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Email: MARY@POLITICON.COM
Get More From This Week’s Guests:
Rachel Vindman:
Twitter | The Suburban Women Problem Podcast
Marissa Rothkopf:
Twitter | Website...
2022-04-131h 08
The Mary Trump ShowGoing LIVE !In this inaugural live streamed episode of The Mary Trump Show, Mary celebrates the Ukraine’s resilience and resistance to Russian aggression, then welcomes E. Jean Carroll, Jen Taub, and Marissa Rothkopf for a roundtable discussion about the current state of our country. They break down the economic situation we’re experiencing, the contemporary differences between the two parties, and how Democrats can take on the dangers posed by Republicans and win in 2022.
‘Ask Mary Anything’
Email: MARY@POLITICON.COM
Get More From E. Jean Carroll:
Twitter | Substack | Author of Many Books
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2022-03-141h 31
The Mary Trump ShowFriendsMary Trump chastens her lawsuit prone uncle with the admonition to finally just release his tax returns, before welcoming all star guests E. Jean Carroll, Katie Phang, Marissa Rothkopf, Jen Taub, and Joyce Vance to look at the state of our union. They discuss the role of hope, optimism, and action in protecting our democracy, and the need for powerful messaging and coalition building to defeat Donald Trumpism in 2022 and beyond.
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‘Ask Mary Anything’
Email: THEMARYTRUMPSHOW@POLITICON.COM
Get More From Joyce Vance:
Twitter | University of Alabama Law | MSNBC | #SistersInLaw
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2021-12-221h 34