Hungry Squared: Where the brain and belly meet

Fondue! We're getting into this decadent topic, thanks to a listener mail from Catherine in New Zealand. We get into the sordid history of fondue and why it became so big in Europe and eventually in the United States. Then we talk about the components of fondue and the science behind each of those ingredients. Then we help one of our listeners come to terms with leftovers and her husband during our Food Fight segment.

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Our affiliate sponsor this week is Once a Month Meals, where they help you get dinners on the table faster through their efficient freezer meal planning. Hungry Squared listeners get 15% off when you go to https://secure.onceamonthmeals.com/affiliate/hungrysquared and enter the code HUNGRY15 at checkout. Offer expires February 15, 2017.

Oh we love chocolate! This week, we have a basic discussion about the history of chocolate and the types of chocolate (we'll talk artisan chocolate in a later episode). Are you a lover of dark or milk chocolate? Or even white chocolate? We also get into how the professionals temper chocolate and how you can do it at home. Our Food Fight question this week is all about a listener who is trying hard not to be a Golden Girl too soon.

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Our affiliate sponsor this week is Once a Month Meals, where they help you get dinners on the table faster through their efficient freezer meal planning. Hungry Squared listeners get 15% off when you go to https://secure.onceamonthmeals.com/affiliate/hungrysquared and enter the code HUNGRY15 at checkout. Offer expires February 15, 2017.

We received a great listener mail about how to make a good stir fry, so to answer our listener's question and in honor of Chinese New Year (Happy year of the Rooster!), we decided to chat about the history or how Chinese food morphed into the Americanized version of today and we give some tips on how to make a tasty stir fry. Plus, we have another listener Food Fight question in which the Temple of Gozer from Ghostbusters is referenced. It's been a a great week!

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Our affiliate sponsor this week is Once a Month Meals, where they help you get dinners on the table faster through their efficient freezer meal planning. Hungry Squared listeners get 15% off when you go to https://secure.onceamonthmeals.com/affiliate/hungrysquared and enter the code HUNGRY15 at checkout. Offer expires February 15, 2017.

We are going into Part 2 of our discussion on leaveners, and we're talking about biological leaveners this week, specifically yeast. Sharon breaks down the different types of domestic yeast and Winter gets into wild yeasts, how to make your own mother starter, and sourdough! Yay! We then help our Food Fight listener have some real talk with her adult daughter and the diet she's started.

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Our affiliate sponsor this week is Once a Month Meals, where they help you get dinners on the table faster through their efficient freezer meal planning. Hungry Squared listeners get 15% off when you go to https://secure.onceamonthmeals.com/affiliate/hungrysquared and enter the code HUNGRY15 at checkout. Offer expires February 15, 2017.

On this week’s episode, we are taking a peek into our pantries to see what are the staples we keep on hand and what are some goods you should have. Also, we tackle how to design your pantry, as big or small as it may be, so that you can use your space and, ultimately, your food better. Also, this week, we tackle the big question: waffles or pancakes? Duhn-duhn duuuhn! Let’s taco ‘bout it!

Our affiliate sponsor this week is Once a Month Meals, where they help you get dinners on the table faster through their efficient freezer meal planning. Hungry Squared listeners get 15% off when you go to https://secure.onceamonthmeals.com/affiliate/hungrysquared and enter the code HUNGRY15 at checkout. Offer expires February 15, 2017.

On this week's episode, we are privileged to chat with Cristiano Creminelli, the founder of Creminelli Fine Meats and food lover. He is a master storyteller and he takes us through the history of salami, then talks food science as he walks us through the fermentation process that his salamis go through before it reaches his customers.

Also, we help a Food Fight listener figure out how to handle all the cookbooks she has acquired over the holidays.

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Happy New Year, Hungry Squared listeners! We are tackling how dark and cold it can be for some of us at this time of the year, by talking about hygge (pronounced "hue-gah"), the Danish term for "coziness". We specifically talk about how you can hygge your food and how to hygge your next winter gathering. Plus, we help a Food Fight listener get out of food rut.

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In this week's episode, we look back on 2016 and the food trends we loved, such as La Croix and ramen, and the ones we didn't, such as pumpkin spice and kale. We also take a quick look back to what food were trendy 50 years and 100 years ago. Then we look to the future and what we think (and hope) will be big next year in 2017. Also, we help settle a dispute about a coveted chocolate chip cookie recipe during our Food Fight segment.

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Merry Christmas, Hungry Squared listeners! We are first jumping into this episode by covering some quick Christmas fun facts, then other weird Christmas facts like fruitcake and oyster stew (who knew?)! Then, we talk about the history of gingerbread and also how to build a structurally-sound gingerbread house. Then we help our Food Fight listener, and remind ourselves how not gain 20 lbs during the holidays!

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This week, we have the privilege to geek out on data with Tricia Callahan from Once a Month Meals, as she breaks down the back story of how she started out at Once a Month Mom to creating a database and software to run Once a Month Meals. She gives us some tips on how to meal plan and make freezer meals--it's like a gym membership! Our listeners get a 15% discount at www.onceamonthmeals.com by using the code HUNGRY15.

We also try to figure out what fancy gift our Food Fight listener could bring to a fancy work party.

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