The FDA has recently proposed a ban on trans fats; what does this mean for consumers? According to HRN's resident food scientists Dave Arnold and Meradith Hoddinott, the ban means higher prices, but healthier lives.

Step up your Father's Day game with the Batali Brothers! This week on The Main Course, Patrick Martins invites one half of the Batali Brothers, Leo, into the studio to talk about his new cookbook, The Batali Brothers Cookbook.

What do Hasidic weddings and foodiness have in common? Answer: they're both filled with awful food and gender segregation. Tune in to hear Erica Wides discuss why foodiness has decided to target genders separately in their takeover of the food system.

Congratulations to Erica Wides; it's the one year anniversary of Let's Get Real! More importantly, it's the "I Told You Show", and Erica's here with the Foodiness Time Machine to take you back in time to show you that all of her food predictions have come true.

On this week's Hot Grease, Nicole Taylor is talking dessert and Finger Lakes riesling. But first, Nicole Taylor discusses the NYC soda ban with HRN's own Jack Inslee. Will the ban really slow the obesity epidemic in the city's youth?

Dave Arnold and Nastassia Lopez are back from Harvard to help you in the kitchen on this week's Cooking Issues! Dave is gearing up to visit some world-class orchards across the pond with Harold McGee, but not before answering some listener questions.

It's time to 'get real' about butter. Butter has been demonized in America because of its saturated fats. Erica Wides is here to tell you that the trans fats in margarine and vegetable shortening are the real enemies: butter's 'evil twin'.

The lines are off the hook this week on Cooking Issues as Dave answers live caller questions from Australia to Moscow. Find out how to make your own sous vide machines at home, truffle infusion tricks and more information on meat glue.

This week on Cooking Issues, Dave is alone in the studio as Nastassia joins him on the phone from Rhode Island. Tune in to hear all about fat melting and pie crusts, why pretzel sticks are not as good as pretzel knots and how to balance flavor.

Food historian and friend of the show Andy Smith stops by to give us some context for the food we eat on Thanksgiving. Also on the show, Curtis B. Wayne.