Break out the knives and get that fire and oven going–this week, we’re all about cooking! We begin by talking about our first memories of food and move on to whether or not cooking was an important thing in our households growing up. (Spoiler: it was!) We talk about family recipes passed down through generations, and then talk about the first thing we learned how to cook. But this episode isn’t all about the past–we talk about what we like to cook now and who does the cooking in our households these days. Then we get a little philosophical, asking if different kinds of foods can bring people together and give us a better understanding of the world. (Spoiler: we think so!)

In the middle of it all, we talk about restaurants: restaurants we’ve worked in, our favorite restaurants, and suggestions for some good places to eat if you ever find yourself in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex. While singing the praises of restaurants, we’d be remiss to not mention our favorite guilty pleasures when it comes to going out and grabbing a bite to eat. Some of our heroes worked in restaurants…we talk about celebrity chefs before moving on to the effect they had on our cooking. And that’s not all that affected our cooking–we talk about television and the Internet’s effect on what we like to cook.

In the final stretch, we talk about our favorite late-night snacks, and devote some time to the best things we cook. There’s a little bit about the last truly wonderful thing we’ve each eaten, and we wrap up the episode on imaginary death row, talking about what we would have as last meals.

It’s a fun episode, all about one of our favorite things: cooking and eating!

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In this episode, when discussing recipes handed down from generation to generation, Christopher talks about making Italian fig cookies. They’re a bit different than most fig cookies–this is what he’s talking about:

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