Hey everyone, Dan here with a very special sporkful reheat for you.

This is the debut episode of a spin-off podcast we did a few years back called Ask Mimi.

Ask Mimi was an advice show starring legendary food critic Mimi Sheridan.

She was the first woman ever named New York Times restaurant critic.

She was known for not being shy about her opinions also as you'll hear her comedic

timing is unparalleled we made eight episodes of ask mimi that culminated with us celebrating mimi's

92nd birthday live on stage now i should mention that mimi died in april 2023 at the age of 97 i am so

glad i got to work with her when I did.

And I'll tell you, one of my memories,

so we did the first live taping of Ask Mimi.

My producer on that project, Margaret Kelly and I,

we would go to Mimi's house for like coffee

and we would plan the show.

So after the first episode,

look, Mimi came up on stage.

She had this crowd eating out of the palm of her hand.

They were laughing.

When she was giving advice, they were silent.

They were just total reverence and adoration for Mimi.

And after that first show, we show up for coffee at Mimi's house to play on the next show.

And Mimi's first question, she turns to the two of us and says, how can we make it better?

And that was such a great lesson.

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