The Sporkful Live: Anything's Pastable

In-person tickets are sold out. Livestream tickets are available. 

Join WBUR and friends for a series of live tapings of your favorite podcasts. Meet the people who are shaping the podcast landscape and be the first to hear their next episode, get a sneak peek of audio left on the cutting room floor or dig deeper into the stories that captivated you.

Join us for a live taping of "The Sporkful," the James Beard and Webby Award-winning podcast hosted by Dan Pashman. Each week the show uses humor and humanity to approach food from many angles, including identity, culture, science, history, economics, and lengthy debates on the best way to layer a PB&J.

Pashman will be joined by Dan Souza, editor-in-chief of Cook’s Illustrated and cast member of “America's Test Kitchen,” for a conversation celebrating of Pashman's first cookbook, “Anything's Pastable: 81 Inventive Pasta Recipes For Saucy People." The book was inspired by his invention of cascatelli, a new pasta shape that Time Magazine named one of the best inventions of the year. Pashman told the story of his three-year quest to create it in a series of episodes called Mission: ImPASTAble.

Copies of the cookbook will be available for purchase from our bookstore partner Brookline Booksmith. Pashman will sign books and guests will enjoy cascatelli with spicy broccoli rabe pesto after the show.

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About Anything's Pastable
The innovative James Beard Award–winning podcaster who changed the way you think about pasta shapes with his invention of the viral sensation cascatelli now does the same for pasta sauces in this fun and charmingly obsessive cookbook, which includes a foreword from bestselling author J. Kenji López-Alt.

When "Sporkful" podcast host Dan Pashman launched cascatelli, a new pasta shape he invented that he designed to hold tons of sauce, stay on the fork, and be incredibly satisfying to bite into, it went viral and was named one of Time Magazine’s best inventions of the year. VICE called him "a modern pasta legend."

But as Dan was flooded with pictures of what people were making with his pasta, he was disappointed to see how limited the dishes were: tomato sauce, meat sauce, mac and cheese, over and over. A few party animals made pesto.

So Dan set out to revolutionize people’s conceptions of pasta sauces, just as he did with pasta shapes. He traveled across Italy and worked with an all-star team of recipe developers in the US to create a new kind of pasta sauce cookbook for people bored with the old standbys. That’s why there’s no 3-hour marinara recipe or fresh pasta made from scratch in this book. No photos of nonnas caked in flour or the hills of Tuscany. Instead it’s time to show the world — Anything’s Pastable.

With an incredible array of recipes, Dan showcases the limitless pastabilities when you really know how to use your noodle.