The Plate Show

It's Spoonie's first podcast ever and she's making her favorite food, pumpkin pie! But to Spoonie’s surprise, she learns pumpkin isn't always just for dessert, it can be used in savory foods, too - and may taste just as good if not better! Celebrity chef J. Kenji López-Alt joins to share his recipe for kabocha no nimono, a classic Japanese dish, and kid guest, Lila, tells Spoonie about calabaza en tacha and Dia de los Muertos.

J. Kenji López-Alt is the two-time James Beard Foundation Award-winning author of The Food Lab and The Wok, and the host of Kenji’s Cooking Show on YouTube, with over a million subscribers. He is a New York Times recipe columnist, the Chief Culinary Advisor of Serious Eats, and the author of the best-selling children’s book Every Night is Pizza Night. He lives in Seattle with his family.

If you love The Plate Show, check out this new podcast: Keyshawn Solves It! Today is Keyshawn’s 10th birthday and it’s full of surprises! What started out as a birthday mystery party turns into a real mystery.

Keyshawn Solves It is produced by GBH Kids and distributed by PRX and PBS KIDS. Funding is made possible in part by Black Public Media. Keyshawn Solves It was originally developed under a grant from the Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. The project was funded by a Ready To Learn grant [PR/Award No. S295A200004, CFDA No. 84.295A] provided by the Department of Education to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The Plate Show is back for a bonus series of mini-episodes inspired by the summer Olympic games, focusing on teamwork. In this snackisode, Spoonie celebrates how each team member brings their own unique talents to the table when they work together. Just like the ingredients in one of her favorite summer foods, sandwiches! Tongs shares fabulous facts about sandwiches from all over the world, and special guests Chloe and her parents play Alphabet Sandwich, a game all about highlighting team members’ different strengths.

It’s Lunar New Year, and Spoonie and Tongs are making Vietnamese spring rolls for “The Big Taste." Their biggest challenge? Trying to stay up late to celebrate the holiday! Between noisemakers, dance parties, and a little help from the listeners, will they make it to midnight?? Chef guest Calvin Eng joins the fun and talks about his family’s Cantonese traditions and favorite recipes, and kid guest Milo shares his favorite Korean rice cake soup, Tteokguk!

Calvin Eng is the chef & owner of Bonnie’s, a Cantonese-American restaurant in Williamsburg. Brooklyn born and raised in a traditional Chinese family, Eng had the dream & goal of opening a restaurant for the last decade, but only in recent years has he realized how important it is to pursue Cantonese food and dive deeper into the dishes of his heritage. Bonnie’s has received positive reviews from The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Eater and Bon Appetit . Eng is a 2023 StarChefs Rising Star, 2023 James Beard Best Chef: New York State Semifinalist, 2022 James Beard Emerging Chef Finalist, 2022 Food & Wine Best New Chef and 2023 Forbes 30 under 30.

I flip, you flip, we all flip for...pancakes! Join Spoonie as she explores different types of pancakes from all over the world. Spoonie is all ready to make super fluffy buttermilk pancakes - yum!- but will friend and fellow utensil, Spatty the spatula be able to get over his nerves in time to flip Spoonie’s pancakes for “The Big Taste”? Special guest Reem Kassis joins and tells us about qatayef asafiri, stuffed pancakes eaten during the month of Ramadan, and kid guest, Anoushka, who shares her favorite appam pancakes from Kerala, India too!

Reem Kassis is a Palestinian food and culture writer and author of the best-selling and award-winning cookbooks, The Palestinian Table (2017), The Arabesque Table (2021) and the children’s book, We Are Palestinian (2023). Her writing regularly appears in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post in addition to various news outlets, magazines and academic journals. She grew up in Jerusalem, obtained her undergraduate and MBA degrees from UPenn and Wharton and her MSc in social psychology from the London School of Economics. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and three daughters.