[Canandaigua, NY, September 16, 2024] — New York Kitchen is honored to bring three-time James Beard Award–winner Dan Pashman, creator and host of The Sporkful podcast and inventor of the viral cascatelli pasta shape to Finger Lakes Community College on Tuesday, October 22 at 6:30pm for “Anything’s Pastable – An Evening with Dan Pashman.”
This fun and informative evening is a ticketed event for all ages that is open to the public, kicking off with a welcome reception featuring a taste of Dan’s recipes created by FLCC’s Culinary Arts students prior to his talk and moderated Q&A, followed by a book signing meet and greet immediately following. Dan will speak about his innovative career in food, inventing the viral Cascatelli pasta shape, becoming a James Beard Award-winner, and the creation of his bestselling cookbook, Anything’s Pastable—a perfect way to celebrate National Pasta Month (October)!
Tickets are available for purchase at nykitchen.com. Tickets are $65 per adult or $30 for children ages 5-17.
About Dan Pashman:
Dan Pashman is the three-time James Beard Award and two-time Webby Award-winning creator and host of The Sporkful. He launched the podcast in 2010 after getting laid off from six radio jobs in eight years. At that point he knew he had to either find a way to make a living making a podcast, or go to law school.
In 2021, Dan released cascatelli, a new pasta shape that he invented. The shape went viral, and was eventually named one of Time Magazine's Best Inventions of the Year. Dan told the story of his three-year quest to create cascatelli over an episode series on The Sporkful called Mission: ImPASTAble, which the New York Times named one of 10 Best Podcasts of 2021.
In March 2024 Dan released his first cookbook, Anything's Pastable: 81 Inventive Pasta Recipes For Saucy People, a collection of nontraditional pasta sauces with a foreword by J. Kenji López-Alt that has become a national bestseller. Library Journal says, "If Willy Wonka and Alton Brown collaborated on a pasta cookbook, the end result might be something like this -- revolutionary in all the right ways."
Dan is also the creator and host of Cooking Channel's You're Eating It Wrong and a contributor to NPR and Milk Street Radio. He has appeared on Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, The Today Show, Guy's Grocery Games, NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered, WTF with Marc Maron, Radiolab, Planet Money, Beat Bobby Flay, Freakonomics Radio, and more. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, and others. Prior to launching The Sporkful, Dan was a producer and reporter at NPR, SiriusXM, and Air America Radio. He lives outside New York City with his wife and two daughters. For more information on Dan Pashman, visit sporkful.com.
Event sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information, click here or contact Alyssa Belasco, Executive Director: alyssa.belasco@nykitchen.com | 585.394.7070.
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