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Decoder RingIntroducing The Sporkful | Is Your Recipe Lying To You?If you look at any list of best-selling cookbooks, certain words come up over and over again: quick, easy, fast, effortless. But is it actually possible to deliver deliciousness in no time? Or are these recipes too good to be true? This week, The Sporkful talks with intrepid journalist Tom Scocca, who exposed the dirty secret about caramelized onions; recipe-writing legend Christopher Kimball; and food writer (and mom) Elizabeth Dunn, who’s sick of feeling bad when a recipe turns out to be harder than she expected. And we ask: Why do recipes that look simple on paper turn ou...
2025-07-0929 minSlate Culture FeedIntroducing The Sporkful | Is Your Recipe Lying To You?If you look at any list of best-selling cookbooks, certain words come up over and over again: quick, easy, fast, effortless. But is it actually possible to deliver deliciousness in no time? Or are these recipes too good to be true? This week, The Sporkful talks with intrepid journalist Tom Scocca, who exposed the dirty secret about caramelized onions; recipe-writing legend Christopher Kimball; and food writer (and mom) Elizabeth Dunn, who’s sick of feeling bad when a recipe turns out to be harder than she expected. And we ask: Why do recipes that look simple on paper turn ou...
2025-07-0929 minSlate Daily FeedIntroducing The Sporkful | Is Your Recipe Lying To You?If you look at any list of best-selling cookbooks, certain words come up over and over again: quick, easy, fast, effortless. But is it actually possible to deliver deliciousness in no time? Or are these recipes too good to be true? This week, The Sporkful talks with intrepid journalist Tom Scocca, who exposed the dirty secret about caramelized onions; recipe-writing legend Christopher Kimball; and food writer (and mom) Elizabeth Dunn, who’s sick of feeling bad when a recipe turns out to be harder than she expected. And we ask: Why do recipes that look simple on paper turn ou...
2025-07-0929 minDecoder RingIntroducing The Sporkful | Is Your Recipe Lying To You?If you look at any list of best-selling cookbooks, certain words come up over and over again: quick, easy, fast, effortless. But is it actually possible to deliver deliciousness in no time? Or are these recipes too good to be true? This week, The Sporkful talks with intrepid journalist Tom Scocca, who exposed the dirty secret about caramelized onions; recipe-writing legend Christopher Kimball; and food writer (and mom) Elizabeth Dunn, who’s sick of feeling bad when a recipe turns out to be harder than she expected. And we ask: Why do recipes that look simple on paper turn ou...
2025-07-0929 min
The SporkfulIs Your Recipe Lying To You?If you look at any list of best-selling cookbooks, certain words come up over and over again: quick, easy, fast, effortless. But is it actually possible to deliver deliciousness in no time? Or are these recipes too good to be true? This week, we talk with intrepid journalist Tom Scocca, who exposed the dirty secret about caramelized onions; recipe-writing legend Christopher Kimball; and food writer (and mom) Elizabeth Dunn, who’s sick of feeling bad when a recipe turns out to be harder than she expected. And we ask: Why do recipes that look simple on paper turn out to...
2025-01-2029 min
Jacobin RadioMichael and Us: Cinematic Civics LessonWhen our politicians fail us, can journalism save us? We revisit George Clooney's GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK (2005), about Edward R. Murrow's battle with Joseph McCarthy, and get a lesson in how the liberal imagination remembers the Red Scare. PLUS: the rise of A.I. in the arts and the state of the center-left in Europe."Liberals, I Do Despise" by Adolph Reed Jr. - https://www.commondreams.org/views/2009/12/09/liberals-i-do-despise"On Smarm" by Tom Scocca - https://www.gawkerarchives.com/on-smarm-1476594977"Europe Is Warning Us" by Grace Blakeley...
2024-06-221h 05
Michael and Us#533 - Cinematic Civics LessonWhen our politicians fail us, can journalism save us? We revisit George Clooney's GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK (2005), about Edward R. Murrow's battle with Joseph McCarthy, and get a lesson in how the liberal imagination remembers the Red Scare. PLUS: the rise of A.I. in the arts, and the state of the centre-left in Europe.
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"Liberals, I Do Despise" by Adolph Reed Jr. - https://www.commondreams.org/views/2009/12/09/liberals-i-do-despise
"On Smarm" by Tom Scocca - https://www.gawkerarchives.com/on-smarm-1476594977
"Europe Is...
2024-06-161h 05
Flaming Hydra Round TableEpisode 0006: Episode 6: Crappy baseball uniforms, Gaza, NYC street dining, and Nirvana's first drummerMaria Bustillos at the Round Table with Tom Scocca, Arwa Mahdawi, Sam Thielman, David Moore, and Mark Yarm. Joe MacLeod pressed the RECORD button.Special Guests: Arwa Mahdawi, David Moore, Mark Yarm, Sam Thielman, and Tom Scocca.Support Flaming Hydra Round Table
2024-04-0829 minFlaming Hydra Round TableEpisode 2: Twitter?!?Here's a chunk that got left off our first episode, Maria Bustillos leads a digression about Twitter with Joe MacLeod, Luke O'Neil, Tom Scocca, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, and Clive Thompson.Special Guests: Clive Thompson, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, Luke O'Neil, and Tom Scocca.Support Flaming Hydra Round Table
2024-03-1407 min
PivotElon's OpenAI Lawsuit, EU's Big Tech Regulation, and Guest Tom ScoccaKara and Scott discuss the state of the presidential race on Super Tuesday, and the Supreme Court ruling on Trump's Colorado ballot eligibility. Then, does Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman hold up in court? Plus, the era of self-regulation for Big Tech appears to be over, at least in the EU. Will that regulation ever make its way to the U.S.? Finally, our Friend of Pivot is Tom Scocca, editor of the Substack, Indignity, who recently penned the New York Magazine essay "My Unraveling." Tom discusses his medical mystery and what he learned about th...
2024-03-051h 16Flaming Hydra Round Table0001: The First Round Table!Luke O’Neil, Clive Thompson, Tom Scocca, Harry Siegel, and Julianne Escobedo Shepherd talked with Maria Bustillos about their recent pieces in FLAMING HYDRA. We had to cut a lot out, maybe we’ll make a coupla extra editions?Special Guests: Clive Thompson, Harry Siegel, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, Luke O'Neil, and Tom Scocca.Support Flaming Hydra Round Table
2024-03-0424 min
On the MediaDeSantis' Failed Campaign Has Lessons For the Political Press. And A Public Radio Parody.After New Hampshire and Iowa, the GOP field is narrowing to Donald Trump's benefit once again. On this week’s On the Media, hear how Florida governor Ron DeSantis went from right-wing media darling to the party outcast. Plus, what gets lost in the blow-by-blow coverage of Trump’s legal woes.
1. Nick Nehamas [@NickNehamas], politics reporter for the New York Times, Mary Ellen Klas [@MaryEllenKlas], opinion writer at Bloomberg and former capital bureau chief for the Miami Herald, and Tom Scocca [@tomscocca], creator of the Indignity newsletter, on the rise and fall of Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign, and th...
2024-01-2650 min
Culture GabfestMuch Ado About Anyone But YouOn this week’s show, the hosts are first joined by Slate’s Heather Schwedel to discuss Anyone But You, a paper-thin adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, starring Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell, whose combined good looks and star wattage aren’t enough to save the flimsily written rom-com. (Although, despite the film’s rocky start, it’s become a sleeper smash at the box-office.) Then, the panel explores Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron (which premiered under the name, How Do You Live?, in Japan), a beautiful and astoundingly thematic film made by one of the wor...
2024-01-1055 minSlate Culture FeedMuch Ado About Anyone But YouOn this week’s show, the hosts are first joined by Slate’s Heather Schwedel to discuss Anyone But You, a paper-thin adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, starring Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell, whose combined good looks and star wattage aren’t enough to save the flimsily written rom-com. (Although, despite the film’s rocky start, it’s become a sleeper smash at the box-office.) Then, the panel explores Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron (which premiered under the name, How Do You Live?, in Japan), a beautiful and astoundingly thematic film made by one of the wor...
2024-01-1055 min
Left AnchorEpisode 265 - The Trans PanicToday we've got Evan Urquhart and Michael Hobbes on to talk about the ongoing frenzy of bigotry directed at trans people, and why centrist and liberal reporters are feeding it.
Evan covers trans issues at Assigned Media, while Michael is a journalist currently working on the Maintenance Phase and If Books Could Kill podcasts.
Also check out Evan's coverage of detransitioners, Tom Scocca's critique of the Times coverage, and this open letter to New York Times management from many of its employees and contributors.
2023-02-201h 23
Gilded AgePREVIEW: The Star Wars Holiday Special feat. Tom ScoccaAlex and Walker talk with Tom Scocca, the editor-in-chief of POPULA and former editor at Slate, Gawker, and Deadspin, about the new Star Wars series Andor. This "Star Wars for adults" show was surprisingly good, offering complex characters, an eerie look at the banality of evil behind the fascistic Empire, an exploration of class and exploitation, and a lot more.
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2022-12-1506 min
Eating For FreeBette Midler Saw My Giant Transgender Knockers and Gagged a LittleLinks: Macy Gray and Bette Midler face backlash for comments criticized as transphobic, CNN Bette Midler Tweet, Twitter The Far Right and Far Left Agree on One Thing: Women Don't Count, The New York Times Michael Powell Screenshots via Tom Scocca, Twitter Michael Hobbes on Michael Powell, Twitter Christopher Rufo Tweet Screenshot via @BusinessmanLego, Twitter The Wendy Williams Show's Official YouTube, Website and Instagram Removed After Series Finale, People Fourth of July 'canceled' by Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry and more amid Roe v. Wade, Page Six Katy Perry Under Fire for Abortion Rights Tweet After Endorsing R...
2022-07-071h 32
FAQ NYCQuickhouse 2: Shockingly White CloudsA weather review from Tom Scocca as the last cold day approaches in New York City and a rundown of everything you'll find everything right now at thebrick.house, all in under 5 minutes.
2021-03-1803 minFAQ NYCWelcome to the Quickhouse!A tasty mini-pod — 5 minutes flat!—with a rundown from Brickhouse managing editor Emma Roller of what you'll find right now at our little cooperative of creators making ad-free, wolf-proof journalism and art by humans for humans PLUS a NYC weather review from Hmm Weekly's Tom Scocca.
2021-03-1205 min
Slate's Spoiler SpecialsIrresistibleOn the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week, Dana Stevens, Slate’s movie critic, is joined by Sam Adams, a senior editor at Slate and the editor of Slate’s culture blog, Brow Beat, and Tom Scocca, Slate's politics editor. They dive into Jon Stewart’s comedy starring Steve Carell as an out-of-touch political operative who decides that a former marine would make a great Democratic candidate for mayor in Deerlaken, Wisconsin. It creates a proxy battleground in rural Wisconsin as Car...
2020-07-1741 minSlate's Spoiler SpecialsIrresistibleOn the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week, Dana Stevens, Slate’s movie critic, is joined by Sam Adams, a senior editor at Slate and the editor of Slate’s culture blog, Brow Beat, and Tom Scocca, Slate's politics editor. They dive into Jon Stewart’s comedy starring Steve Carell as an out-of-touch political operative who decides that a former marine would make a great Democratic candidate for mayor in Deerlaken, Wisconsin. It creates a proxy battleground in rural Wisconsin as Car...
2020-07-1745 min
New York Fishing PodcastGeorge speaks with Billy the Greek and Tom Fote, the Godfather of recreational fishing rights.In this episode George Scocca, founder of the first-ever fishing website on the internet noreast.com - speaks with Mr. Tom Fote, a recreational fishing advocate, about New Jersey Striper regulation then speaks once again with Billy the Greek who gives a ton of information on approaching the elusive big bass. Then there's our listener favorite of fishing and relationships. This is a must listen to for both the serious and average anglers alike.
2019-12-161h 04Culture GabfestChaos Is the New CocaineStephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss Netflix's My Name is Dolemite, Apple TV+'s The Morning Show, and the mass resignations that took place at the website Deadspin with Slate's Tom Scocca.This episode is brought to you by Everlane. Check out your personalized collection today at everlane.com/culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-11-061h 05Culture GabfestChaos Is the New CocaineStephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss Netflix's My Name is Dolemite, Apple TV+'s The Morning Show, and the mass resignations that took place at the website Deadspin with Slate's Tom Scocca.This episode is brought to you by Everlane. Check out your personalized collection today at everlane.com/culture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2019-11-061h 02
On the MediaThe Democracy We Think We Live InThe pathways and origins of white nationalist thought were a matter of deadly importance in coverage of last weekend’s shootings. On this week’s On the Media, how mainstream punditry launders a tolerance for xenophobia. Also, the history of American presidents and media figures dismissing black and brown claims to power in a democracy. Plus, what calls for additional federal oversight in Puerto Rico mean for Puerto Ricans.
1. Tom Scocca [@tomscocca], politics editor at Slate, on the journalists, writers and political figures who cater to America's racist id. Listen.
2. Adam Serwer [@AdamSerwer], staff writer at The...
2019-08-0949 min
Care and Feeding | Amazon (DNU)What's Up With All Those Nannies?On this week’s episode, Rebecca, Jamilah, and Tom answer listener questions from a mom that doesn’t seem to understand the need for nannies and a mom that wants to have more inclusive birthday parties. As usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. For Slate Plus, we talk with our guest host, Tom Scocca, about sharing the news with your kids. We use Tom’s most recent Slate article, Where Taking the Concerns of Racists Seriously Has Gotten Us, to kick off the conversation. Sign up for Slate Plus here. Recommendations:T...
2019-08-0855 minCare and Feeding | Amazon (DNU)What's Up With All Those Nannies?On this week’s episode, Rebecca, Jamilah, and Tom answer listener questions from a mom that doesn’t seem to understand the need for nannies and a mom that wants to have more inclusive birthday parties. As usual, we share our triumphs and fails and offer up some recommendations. For Slate Plus, we talk with our guest host, Tom Scocca, about sharing the news with your kids. We use Tom’s most recent Slate article, Where Taking the Concerns of Racists Seriously Has Gotten Us, to kick off the conversation. Sign up for Slate Plus here. Recommendations:T...
2019-08-0852 min
The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & EatersRecipes: The Good, the Bad & the UglyHost Francis Lam talks to chef Samin Nosrat about the four elements you need to understand to make your cooking sing. She is the author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking. Emily Kaiser Thelin brings us the story of legendary food writer Paula Wolfert and her struggle with memory. Thelin is the author of the new biography Unforgettable: The Bold Flavors of Paula Wolfert’s Renegade Life. Dan Souza of Cook’s Science brings us an update on the culinary world’s hottest ingredient, cannabis. And Tom Scocca exposes the controversy surrounding caramelized onions.
2018-12-0749 min
The Splendid TableRecipes: The Good, the Bad & the UglyHost Francis Lam talks to chef Samin Nosrat about the four elements you need to understand to make your cooking sing. She is the author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking. Emily Kaiser Thelin brings us the story of legendary food writer Paula Wolfert and her struggle with memory. Thelin is the author of the new biography Unforgettable: The Bold Flavors of Paula Wolfert’s Renegade Life. Dan Souza of Cook’s Science brings us an update on the culinary world’s hottest ingredient, cannabis. And Tom Scocca exposes the controversy surrounding caramelized onions.Broadc...
2018-12-0749 min
The Bake Canadian Take Off06. Gingerbread and Jews, Yule Loggy LogWe discuss high skilled bakers and The EditFunny ways of saying thingsRich made rugelach, messed up a filling and got existential angst worrying about if humans can ever truly communicateLiz has harsh words for candy on gingerbreadRugelach RecipeTom Scocca on caramelizing onionsTom Scocca on google on caramelizing onionsElvis Herod
2017-12-0837 minThe Bake Canadian Take Off06. Gingerbread and Jews, Yule Loggy LogWe discuss high skilled bakers and The EditFunny ways of saying thingsRich made rugelach, messed up a filling and got existential angst worrying about if humans can ever truly communicateLiz has harsh words for candy on gingerbreadRugelach RecipeTom Scocca on caramelizing onionsTom Scocca on google on caramelizing onionsElvis Herod
2017-12-0837 min
LongformEpisode 195: Leah FinneganLeah Finnegan, a former New York Times and Gawker editor, is the managing news editor at Genius.
“After the Condé Nast article, Nick Denton decided Gawker needed to be 20% nicer, and I took a buyout because I was not 20% nicer.”
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[02:00] "Sunk" (Mitch Moxley • Atavist Magazine • May 2016)
[05:00] Alec Baldwin’s Blog at The Huffington Post
[05:00] The Daily Texan
[07:00] "Top 10 Hipster Schools" (Huffington Post • Jun 2010)
[13:00] News Genius
[17:00] "The ‘Food Babe’ Blogger Is Full of Shit" (Yvette d’Entremont • Gawker • Apr 2015)
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2016-06-0153 min
LongformEpisode 189: Maciej CeglowskiMaciej Ceglowski is the founder of Pinboard. He writes at Idle Words.
“My natural contrarianism makes me want to see if I can do something long-term in an industry where everything either changes until it's unrecognizable or gets sold or collapses. I like the idea of things on the web being persistent. And more basically, I reject this idea that everything has to be on a really short time scale just because it involves technology. We’ve had these computers around for a while now. It’s time we start treating them like everything else in our lives, where it kind o...
2016-04-201h 01
Culture GabfestThe Culture Gabfest: All That Chintz EditionSlate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner are joined by music critic Carl Wilson to discuss the new Coen Brothers film "Inside Llewyn Davis", Tom Scocca's essay on smarm, and interview the curator of the Met museum's textiles exhibit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2013-12-1159 min
Culture GabfestThe Culture Gabfest: All That Chintz EditionSlate critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner are joined by music critic Carl Wilson to discuss the new Coen Brothers film "Inside Llewyn Davis", Tom Scocca's essay on smarm, and interview the curator of the Met museum's textiles exhibit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2013-12-1159 min