Dan Pashman's New Book Instructs You How to Eat More Better
"If life contains a finite number of meals, and a meal contains a finite number of bites, you can only take so many bites before you're full and/or dead," Dan Pashman says in his new tome, Eat More Better: How to Make Every Bite More Delicious. "A bite is a precious resource. It pains me to think of all the thoughtless eating that takes place across the world each day. So many mouthfuls meld together into one big, blah bolus we'll never get back. But let us not grieve for the bites that could have been. Let us instead look ahead, to those that are yet to be."
Lilia Cretcher for The Sporkful All photos courtesy Simon & Schuster
Pashman has spent a lifetime eating and analyzing. As host and creator of WNYC's James Beard-nominated podcast The Sporkful, he's managed to make a living out of his passion, obsessively analyzing every single bite. He also hosts the Cooking Channel's Web series Good to Know and You're Eating it Wrong and contributes to NPR, Slate, Buzzfeed, and KCRW in Los Angeles.
In his new textbook-like work, Pashman combines a mix of science, philosophy, and humor to edify readers about the importance of conscious eating -- not in the meditative form, but in the deliberative sense. He illustrates how every meal is a chance to find "Perfect Deliciousness."
Last night, we caught up with Pashman to discuss the best way to compose everyday food items (hint: you've been eating sandwiches the wrong way your entire life), what you can tell about someone on a first date, from the way they eat, and how to best define a "foodie."
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