Dan Pashman is the two-time James Beard and Webby Award-winning creator and host of The Sporkful. He launched the podcast in 2010 after getting laid off from six radio jobs in eight years. At that point he knew he had to either find a way to make a living making a podcast, or go to law school.

In 2021 Dan released cascatelli, a new pasta shape that he invented. The shape went viral, and was eventually named one of Time Magazine's Best Inventions of the Year. (It's now in stores across the country and available online, along with two other shapes he collaborated with the pastamaker Sfoglini to produce.) Dan told the story of his three-year quest to create cascatelli in a series on The Sporkful called Mission: ImPASTAble, which the New York Times named one of 10 Best Podcasts of 2021.

In March 2024 Dan released his first cookbook, Anything's Pastable: 81 Inventive Pasta Recipes For Saucy People, a collection of nontraditional pasta sauces with a foreword by J. Kenji López-Alt that became a National Bestseller. Library Journal says, "If Willy Wonka and Alton Brown collaborated on a pasta cookbook, the end result might be something like this -- revolutionary in all the right ways."

Dan is also the creator and host of Cooking Channel's You're Eating It Wrong and a contributor to NPR and Milk Street Radio. He has appeared on Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, The Today Show, Radiolab, Guy's Grocery Games, NPR's Morning Edition, WTF with Marc Maron, Planet Money, Beat Bobby Flay, Freakonomics Radio, and more. Prior to launching The Sporkful Dan was a producer and reporter at NPR, SiriusXM, and Air America Radio. He lives outside New York City with his wife and two daughters.

To invite Dan to speak at your event, email hello [at] sporkful [dot] com.

Emma Morgenstern has produced a bunch of different podcasts, including The Queen (Slate), Katie Couric (Stitcher), We Came to Win (Gimlet), Tell Me Something I Don't Know (Dubner Productions), and Dunkumentaries (ESPN). She's a graduate of the Salt Institute. When she was a student at the University of Pennsylvania, she founded the first college food magazine, Penn Appétit, which is still an active publication more than 15 years later.

Before joining The Sporkful, Andres was producing stories on news, politics, and immigration for The Takeaway. He spent years producing arts and culture programming for WNYC, where he piloted podcasts and was part of the team that launched All of It with Alison Stewart. His work has appeared on The New Yorker Radio Hour, Studio 360, Gothamist, Milk Street Radio, Eater, and Slate. He has also produced Spanish to English translations for WNYC, Gothamist, The Takeaway, The New Yorker Radio Hour, and The United States of Anxiety.

Jared O’Connell is Director of Audio Engineering for Stitcher and Earwolf. In addition to The Sporkful, he’s mixed podcasts including Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People, Katie Couric, and You Must Remember This. He graduated from NYU’s Music Technology program. When he’s not working in Pro Tools, he’s probably cooking or drinking wine and attempting to write tasting notes.

Nora Ritchie is an Executive Producer at Stitcher Studios. She has produced a ton of podcasts, including Unladylike, Vibe Check, Katie Couric, American Diagnosis, By the Book, and more. She’s a proud graduate of the Transom Story Workshop and attended the Duke Center for Documentary Studies. In a past life, she was a professional musician and worked as a research assistant in environmental law. Her downtime is dedicated to long unplanned walks, dreaming of a cabin upstate, and sipping on iced coffee.