The Food We Like to Talk About vs. The Food We Actually Make

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 20, 2016

Apparently in the kitchen, we're all talk and no action.

Slate reporter Nicholas Hune-Brown recently wrote about the huge gap between the ultra-foodie recipes we like to talk about and the actual recipes we're searching for on sites like Allrecipes.com, the most popular English-language food website in the world.

"What’s remarkable isn’t so much Allrecipes’ dominance but how distant the site feels from the food conversation in the media," Hune-Brown writes.

So it's time for confessions. Listeners call in with their guilty pleasure, totally down-scale recipes. And feel free to keep tweeting recipes at @BrianLehrer.

Dan Pashman, host of The Sporkful, joins to talk about our foodie vs. lazy nature.

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