Zarna Garg immigrated to the United States from India alone, at 16, without a penny to her name. Fast-forward to 2018: She?s a stay-at-home mom with three kids and bored out of her mind. At her children?s insistence, Zarna got on stage at an open-mic night. Five years later? She has her own comedy special on Amazon, ?Zarna Garg: One in a Billion!?

Zarna loves to top many of her meals with a big ol' pile of raw onions, but laments that Americans are sensitive to onion breath. I chat with a cognitive scientist who researched whether smell preference is cultural, personal taste or universally disliked among humans because of its chemical compounds.

And we?ll learn the fairly modern history of masala chai with Indian-American food writer Leena Trivedi-Granier (click for her recipe)? just don?t call it chai tea! We?ll tell you why.

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Ron Upshaw and Don O?Neill are longtime radio partners who spent decades moving around the country together, hosting all kinds of big-market radio shows. And YLM host Rachel Belle was a part of The Ron & Don Show on KIRO Radio for a decade!

Ron and Don have worked together since they were teenagers, in all sorts of professions. What keeps two people working together for 40 years? We will discuss!

Don adores cherry pie, so I chat with a 25-year-old entrepreneur from Traverse City, Michigan, who is trying to reclaim his hometown?s lost Guinness World Record by making the world?s largest cherry pie.

And could you make it through a 50-course dinner? We?ll talk about the pros and cons of fancy tasting menus with food writer Charmaine Mok

Listen to my other cherry pie episode featuring actor/comedian Jenny Slate & Warrant guitarist Joey Allen (who played on Cherry Pie!)

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