On today's episode of Magician Issues, Dave, Nastassia and The Rest are joined by Aaron Polsky and Jackie Molecules to celebrate Jack's birthday and Nastassia's last week in California. First up, myth busters! Jean helps bust last week's myth about accelerated banana ripening, and then the whole team takes a...

On this episode of Reminiscing Issues Dave and Miss Tasha, The Lopez, The Hammer, are joined by The Rest as well as friends of the show Claire and Jackie Molecules. Together they zig and zag down memory lane. You'll laugh, you'll cringe, you'll learn something (maybe). In March, HRN began...

Cooking Issues turns 300! Tune in to hear Dave, Nastassia, and everyone's favorite punching bag Peter Kim discuss The Mooch, powdered tahini, green eggs, dehydrators, ultrasounds, cooking competitions, and more! Plus, a special guest appearance by Jackie Molecules! Cooking Issues is powered by Simplecast.

This week on Cooking Issues, Nastassia and Jackie Molecules are on the line from D.C., while Dave talks about the closing night of Booker and Dax (while lamenting the poor quality of modern piñatas), and answers questions about vegettis, zucchini (and its sticky, slimy residue), ultrasounds, transglutaminase, nitrotinis, bark, and...

It's the last episode of Cooking Issues with Jackie Molecules in the studio! Tune in for a fond farewell and champagne toast, as well as some listener questions. "Never forage for wild freaking parsley!" – Dave Arnold

This week on Cooking Issues, Dave is joined by HRN founder Patrick Martins and no-knead bread originator Jim Lahey. Tune in to hear them talk about the inferiority of Tuscan bread, and hear Jim answer some listener questions about how to be a masterbaker. "Our idea about what good bread...

This week on Cooking Issues, Dave and Nastassia are joined by "The Curious Cook" Harold McGee, an author who writes about the chemistry and history of food science, cooking and molecular gastronomy. He is best known for his seminal book On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the...

This week on Cooking Issues, we celebrate the return of sidekick Jackie Molecules, and talk getting food poisoning from supermarket sushi, making tinctures with orris root, cocktail cubes, rutabagas vs. turnips, Long Island iced teas, and the abomination that are baked chips. "If someone said, hey, you can have a...

This week on Cooking Issues, Dave Arnold is on time and ready to answer a lot of questions. Topics range from blended peas to mealworm toffee. Tune in and hear the new "Jackie Molecules" ringtone debuted, find out whether or not Nastassia was able to succeed in the Saltines challenge...