The Plate Show

Spoonie celebrates her favorite spectator snack – chips! Spatty the Spatula is back in the Kitchen and excited about playing a new game, but can he learn to play by the rules? Tongs shares fabulous facts about chips from all over the world, and special kid guest Teddy shows Spatty how to keep it fair and fun in today’s game – Secret Snack: a cooperative guessing game.

The Plate Show is back for a bonus series of mini-episodes inspired by the summer Olympic games, focusing on teamwork. In this snackisode, Spoonie celebrates how each team member brings their own unique talents to the table when they work together. Just like the ingredients in one of her favorite summer foods, sandwiches! Tongs shares fabulous facts about sandwiches from all over the world, and special guests Chloe and her parents play Alphabet Sandwich, a game all about highlighting team members’ different strengths.

It’s Lunar New Year, and Spoonie and Tongs are making Vietnamese spring rolls for “The Big Taste." Their biggest challenge? Trying to stay up late to celebrate the holiday! Between noisemakers, dance parties, and a little help from the listeners, will they make it to midnight?? Chef guest Calvin Eng joins the fun and talks about his family’s Cantonese traditions and favorite recipes, and kid guest Milo shares his favorite Korean rice cake soup, Tteokguk! Calvin Eng is the chef & owner of Bonnie’s, a Cantonese-American restaurant in Williamsburg. Brooklyn born and raised in a traditional Chinese family, Eng had the dream & goal of opening a restaurant for the last decade, but only in recent years has he realized how important it is to pursue Cantonese food and dive deeper into the dishes of his heritage. Bonnie’s has received positive reviews from The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Eater and Bon Appetit. Eng is a 2023 StarChefs Rising Star, 2023 James Beard Best Chef: New York State Semifinalist, 2022 James Beard Emerging Chef Finalist, 2022 Food & Wine Best New Chef and 2023 Forbes 30 under 30.

Spoonie is excited to make challah bread for her beloved Aunt Mitzi, the oven mitt, but is astounded to realize just how long it takes. Will Spoonie finish before Aunt Mitzi arrives? Special guest Elyssa Heller joins to talk about Jewish food, both traditional and modern, and kid guest Juliet shares her favorite food, latkes, for the Jewish holiday, Hanukkah! Elyssa Heller started Edith's as a pandemic-born sandwich shop inside of the Brooklyn institution, Paulie Gee's pizzeria. Named after her Great-Aunt Edith, Edith's was supposed to last just six weeks and was started with $8,000 of savings. The pop-up immediately went viral, its twists on classic Jewish comfort food enabling Edith’s to become a permanent jewel-sized sandwich shop in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. Edith's brings global Jewish flavors to the forefront of New York's culinary landscape and offers food influenced by the Jewish diaspora, exploring the flavors and cultural experience of Jewish cuisine. Elyssa's goal with Edith's is to create an empire built on delicious sandwiches, bringing global Jewish food to everyone. A born and bred Chicagoan (but New Yorker for the last decade) Elyssa grew up on smoked chubbs and loved spending Sundays at the deli with family. She is a retired Canadian volleyball player and graduated from Queen's University. Elyssa lives in Brooklyn with her dog Murray (named after Bill) and you can often find her behind the register slinging sandwiches.

Spoonie LOVES corn, so she can’t wait to make succotash, a Native American dish, for today’s “big taste”. But there’s just one problem, their trusty kitchen plate is missing! How can you have “The Plate Show” without the plate?! Detective Sherlock Spoonie and Doctor Tongs to the rescue. Special guest Kevin Noble Maillard shares stories about his food traditions as a member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, and kid guest Watehronhine tells us about her favorite foods and ceremonies from her Mohawk Native American community. Kevin Noble Maillard is the author of Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story, a children’s picture book illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal. Originally from Oklahoma, Kevin is a member of the Seminole Nation, Mekusukey band. He’s currently a law professor at Syracuse University, a contributor to the New York Times, and lives with his family in Manhattan.

Spoonie is doing a show about street food from around the world but keeps getting distracted by a delicious smell coming from outside her kitchen window. Can Spoonie stay focused long enough to get through her podcast? And will she ever get the chance to taste the street food she so desperately wants to try? Celebrity chef Pati Jinich shares her favorite Mexican street foods, and kid guest Gavi talks about the Malaysian curry puffs he loves making with his grandmother. Pati Jinich is the Emmy-nominated Mexican host and executive producer of both La Frontera, her PBS Primetime docuseries that reveals untold stories from the US-Mexico border and Pati’s Mexican Table, which has brought Mexican flavors into American homes for more than 10 years. A James Beard award-winning chef and former political analyst, Pati has made it her life’s work to build greater understanding between her two home countries: Mexico where she was born and the United States where she currently resides and is raising her family. In addition to her television work, she is a New York Times contributor and bestselling author with 3 cookbooks, including her most recent Treasures of the Mexican Table: Classic Recipes, Local Secrets.

It's Spoonie's first podcast ever and she's making her favorite food, pumpkin pie! But to Spoonie’s surprise, she learns pumpkin isn't always just for dessert, it can be used in savory foods, too - and may taste just as good if not better! Celebrity chef J. Kenji López-Alt joins to share his recipe for kabocha no nimono, a classic Japanese dish, and kid guest, Lila, tells Spoonie about calabaza en tacha and Dia de los Muertos. J. Kenji López-Alt is the two-time James Beard Foundation Award-winning author of The Food Lab and The Wok, and the host of Kenji’s Cooking Show on YouTube, with over a million subscribers. He is a New York Times recipe columnist, the Chief Culinary Advisor of Serious Eats, and the author of the best-selling children’s book Every Night is Pizza Night. He lives in Seattle with his family.