We start with Dan Pashman's his live event to promote his food podcast, Sporkful. After seemingly endless hard work and sacrifice, Dan finally felt the excitement, the palpable energy his audience invested into his work. He’s been able to create such an enlivened community around his podcast due to the passion he has for food and high-quality audio storytelling. Today, Sporkful has evolved into something deeper than food; food is just a vehicle Dan uses to explore science, history, culture, and economics. But if we go wayyy back, the podcast started out as a humorous outlet for Dan to ramble on about any given food for 30 minutes. And if we go even further back, to the origin of Dan's love for food, we arrive at his Jewish upbringing, in a family culture centered around eating.

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