Dan Pashman & his new book "Anything's Pastable"

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Award winning The Sporkful podcast host, Dan Pashman, invented a new pasta shape in 2021. Cascatelli was released with great fanfare -- Time magazine declared the pasta one of 2021’s best inventions and it was covered everywhere from The New York Times to Access Hollywood.

But when fans started tagging Dan on Instagram, eager to show off their cascatelli creations, he realized everyone was bathing their pasta in the same three sauces! Eager to move beyond marinara and mac & cheese, Dan wrote his first cookbook, Anything’s Pastable: 81 Inventive Pasta Recipes for Saucy People.

On his recent book tour, Dan popped by host Rachel Belle’s Seattle home studio to talk about the cookbook’s innovative, international recipes; the best place in the house to eat when you don’t want to share food with your children; and why he thinks spaghetti is an inferior pasta shape.

Then host Rachel Belle blindfolded Dan and fed him pasta to see how many shapes he could identify by mouthfeel alone! Watch the video here!

Dan was on YLM to talk about his last meal back in 2017 -- you can listen here!

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.
0:05.8	Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show.
0:19.4	I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal.
0:23.0	The show where celebrity share stories about the foods they love most,
0:26.4	and we dig into the history, culture, and science of those meals with experts from around the world.
0:31.3	Today on the program, Dan Pashman, host of the Sporkful podcast, inventor of the pasta-shaped cascatelli, and author of the new cookbook, Anything's Pastaable.
0:42.6	If you're a longtime listener to your last meal, you might remember that Dan was a guest on the show way back in 2017.
0:50.0	My last meal would be wrapped inside a flour tortilla.
0:53.8	Dan was in Seattle for his book tour a few weeks ago,
0:56.2	so I invited him over to my house slash studio to talk about his book.
1:00.2	Then I blindfolded him and fed him pasta to see how many shapes he could identify by mouth feel alone.
1:07.1	Am I to like massage it with my lips at all?
1:09.3	Sure.
1:11.2	You are being filmed, so.
1:14.7	I don't know what website is going to end up on.
1:18.0	If you want to see the video version of Dan eating pasta blindfolded, you can find that on my Instagram, hello Rachel Bell, or sign up for my free newsletter.
1:28.1	Rachelbell.
1:37.8	dot substack.com. All right. Who's hungry for pasta? All right, let me, let's see, I'm really hot.
1:42.3	I'm just going to turn it down a little bit. How am I? You want me to talk a little? Yeah.
1:44.7	This is good? Yeah. I can keep talking if you want.
1:48.9	Oh, I know you can. We're going to talk about pasta. It's going to be great. Okay, we're good.
1:56.1	One of the things Dan is known for is a concept he calls the proximity effect. He argues that it makes more sense to fold a slice of pizza inside out. So the cheese and sauce are on the outside and can make direct
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