Ahoy sneaky friends! Join Nicole and Z this week as they take a hard look at the underbelly of the food world! Strawberries full of needles, poison peanut butter, maple syrup heists, and the biggest food criminal of all, THE CODFATHER!!

Today on Cooking Issues Dave and Nastassia help a listener win a Beer Mile. Also, we talk Peanut Butter Steaks, murdering baby pigeons, speculative nuclear searing, and Nastassia learns she wants a Moon Rock Engagement Ring.

This week, Claire and Erica talk about their hanger-management snack tactics (popcorn is the headliner) and get tips from writer and former Billfold editor Meaghan O'Connell how to feel a hell of a lot better every time you look at your bank account balance.

Across America's diverse kitchens and cuisines, peanut butter is perhaps the closest thing to a universal staple. Listen in and learn how it became that way. By Elizabeth Kulas

Jeff Bailey has dropped the bass (guitar) and brought Texas-style breakfast to Williamsburg via Whirlybird. Tune into this week's Snacky Tunes to hear Jeff chat with Darin Bresnitz about his involvement with Williamsburg music staples like Glasslands, Phosphorescent, and Virgin Forest!

In this episode of Cooking Issues, Dave Arnold answers questions about rolled meats, and discusses low temperature methods of cooking turkey. After the break, Dave praises Virginia peanuts and explains why they blow all other peanuts out of the water.

Foodiness is like a mummy; it's shrink-wrapped and dead, but so preserved that it will last forever. Just in time for Halloween!

Chef Emily Peterson welcomes author and Found Magazine co-creator Davy Rothbart as her first guest on Sharp & Hot! Davy is in town to celebrate the paperback release of his book My Heart is an Idiot.

This week on Taste Matters, host Mitchell Davis speaks with Jeffrey Zurofsky, partner at ‘wichcraft, NYC and Co-Founder of the Riverpark Farm at the Alexandria Center.