Pantry Staples

Emily is rounding out our Spore-gasbord season with an episode about the mold that brings us a nectar of the gods! There is frankly too much science, but we do cleanse our palates by rolling our eyes at people who will only drink a "dry" wine. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

This episode actually doesn't have a lot of cheese content until the end (much to Emily's frustration). Marika goes through the basics of pairing wine with food then we taste and go on tangents. Content warning: so many chewing and slurping noises, also a few rogue firework blasts. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

Emily is back for the conclusion of her series on chocolate, this time to discuss the horrible labour record of Hershey Foods. Not only is their chocolate subpar but so is their commitment to ending child slavery! Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

This week Marika explains why it may have been a good idea to adopt a gluten free diet in Medieval Germany. We're talking about history's number one fungus amongus: Ergot. Things take a darkish turn near the end but what else would you expect from Pantry Staples! Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod 

A series within a series! Emily is back this week to describe to us the horrors of Big Chocolate, specifically Nestlé. Sidebars along the way include a stellar martini recipe and Marika's Vogue "What I Eat in a Day" entry. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

Marika is back on theme this week with more of the wonderful ways that mold and cheese work together to create stinky deliciousness. We talk and TASTE through 6 different types of cheeses: Double and Triple cream Brie, Humboldt Fog, Taleggio, Limburger and Gruyere. Follow along at home for the ultimate Pantry Staples experience. (Content Warning: chewing noises) Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

This week Emily tells us about the moldy secret behind our favourite sweet treat: chocolate! Along the way we run into racism, loss of agricultural knowledge and environmental destruction. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod  

Is that miasma I feel or is this wallpaper making crazy? This week Marika is taking us on a slight detour to talk about white people processing stress through interior design. We also talk about mold, refrigerators and our least favourite chores. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

It's transportable, it's a superfood, it's not actually a mold... It's algae! This week Emily is taking us all over the world to talk about the incredible edible history of seaweed. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod 

Marika is back with another divisive, smelly food: Truffles! We're getting a little science-y with this one but also lamenting the loss of generational knowledge and seriously urging you to get yourself a truffle lady. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod and let us know if you want us to start doing fake ad breaks!

Emily is back in her wheelhouse this week as we travel 2 million years into the past to get the facts on mouldy meat. We talk a little bit about beef itself but mostly we try to unpack the weird ways humans (North Americans) talk and think about meat eating. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

Welcome to season 5: our spore-gasbord of mould and food! This week, Marika tells Emily about our favourite acquired taste, blue cheese. We unpack legends, science and our taste for stank. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod 

It's the final episode of this season and we're pulling out all the stops to tell you about the history of flambé cooking and tableside service. There are enough moustaches and bowties to build an entire Cornell Hospitality Student body and Emily is learning a lot of new things. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

Merry almost Christmas everybody!  Emily is cooking up Beef Wellington this year and even though she can't tell the different Napoleons apart, she does have the skinny on this showpiece of a dish. Sidebars include, our greatest baking meltdowns and Emily's ability to hold a grudge. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

This week Marika takes you from the 4th Century to the 80's with the contentious origins of North America's favourite fusion food: the California Roll! You will also hear about our most hated interior design colours and Emily's unapologetic love of imitation crab. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

This week we're back at the Waldorf Astoria... or are we? Learn the three potential origins of this brunch classic and then follow us down the rabbit hole of hangover cures famous and historical. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

This week we're shaking up a cocktail from the mind of a bartender who probably would have kicked us out of his saloon. There are apocryphal stories galore and some of them might actually be true! So get your shaker arms ready for the Ramos Fizz. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

Welcome to LifeSkills 8, class! This week we learn about the history of Home Ec and try to decide whether it's capitalist indoctrination or a utopia where you can ‘have it all'. But mostly we're here to goss about Olivia Wilde's salad dressing and be concerned about orphans. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

This week we're taking you back to the 90's with a classic seafood dish because that's how Marika's brain works. Pluralized 'shrimp' brings us a lot of joy so prepare to hear that a lot. Tangents include Emily's pick for a celebrity president and hometown parking woes. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

Emily is here to remind Marika that fast food restaurants are restaurants too with the history of North America's favourite breakfast on the go. Along the way we'll learn that Marika is not so secretly 100 years old and that capitalism is always lurking around the corner to ruin your morning. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

We're breaking the mould and talking beveraginos this week because drinks are dishes too! Listen to Marika shake up a cocktail and tell Emily the history of this drink that, despite what some bartenders might think, should not be 90% orange juice. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

This week we're talking about a certain 'divine' herby sauce that was categorically not invented by Subway, earlier this year. We're also asking the hard questions like, "Has everything already been thunked?" and "Does Marika carry artichokes in her purse?"  Trigger warning: Emily is depressed and jokes about it. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

Following the structure of a proper 19th Century charity ball dinner (probably...) we bring you famous salad number 2! Marika tells Emily the history of everyone's favourite hotel based salad. So break out the good mayonnaise and listen in! Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

We're back babies! Kicking off season 4 with a food near and dear to our professional and literal hearts. Emily tells the origins of the beloved and customizable Caesar salad. We forgot to mention it on the show (we're a little rusty...) but please follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

Be afraid, be VERY afraid of the most staple of pantry staples: the can. This episode includes dramatic readings and some highly localized content as we discuss 'the deadliest toxin known to mankind'! Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

Welcome to what is possibly our saddest disaster yet! Not even the vegetarians are safe! Emily would prefer we call this a massacre and after 30 minutes you might not disagree... Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod 

A brief but tragic foray into the dangers of working in a food products plant takes left turn into the surprising history of North America's favourite condiment. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod 

Emily tells Marika about the surprising dangers of flour this week with the Washburn Mill Explosion. You will also hear some paltry pun executions and the fact that we know nothing about the civil war. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

Marika is taking you back to Old Timey England with the story of the London beer flood! Tangents include golf sandwiches and beer in Victorian mental asylums. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

Merry Christmas Podfriends! We were far too busy eating and sleeping this year to make a new Holiday episode so enjoy re-learning about the 12 Days of Christmas. This is a re-release from Christmas 2020, so there are a few references that may not make sense, also warning for old audio. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod 

This is your official warning, cheese and fire do NOT mix! In possibly our most lighthearted disaster episode yet Emily tells Marika an illuminating tale of Norwegian brown cheese. Tangents include advent calendars and historical #girlbosses. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplesppod 

This week we bring you a tragic tale of resource mismanagement and scientists who can't do math. Plus Marika attempts to re-create a part of our heritage only to reveal another of Emily's pop cultural blind spots. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod 

Would you like a content warning? Because this one's a little grotty... Emily explains how Mad Cow Disease is more than a wicked schoolyard zinger. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod 

This week's episode is about a very sticky situation! Seriously though, this was a huge disaster that changed the 'flow' of history. Tangents include edible leaves and an unnecessary thought experiment. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

Emily reads Marika elaborate menus from the Titanic and explores the ways in which trans-Atlantic travel changed restaurant culture. Maybe you too will come to the conclusion that the real disaster was all that food waste! Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

You may think you know this story but, don't worry, it's much worse than you remember! Marika has all of the depressing details on why being a Catholic peasant in 1840's Ireland was a pretty rough gig. Follow us on Instagram @pantrystaplespod ! 

We're back baby! It's season 3 and we're shaking things up this time around. Emily regales Marika with some classic case law and reveals why you never want to be a precedent. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod 

Welcome to the final episode of Season 2! The podcast where we tell you the origin of a food and then immediately tell you that none of it matters! Also, Emily learns that Samurais aren't real and we discuss the pitfalls of handshake deals. Follow us on instagam @pantrystaplespod ! 

It's kombucha week and we're drowning in scobys! Which begs the question, could the most liberal product in America kill you? Plus! Lindsay Lohan and Marika's 'Buch reviews.  Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod

We may not be full of piss but we are definitely chock full of vinegar and we're back to remind you that this is a pro-Roman podcast- even if it might end Marika and Emily's friendship. We're dissing Hannibal, boosting Cleopatra and sneaking in some ASMR. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod 

It's the exciting conclusion of bread! We've got quotes on quotes, classic ad reads and the WONDER of blimps. Also, we're starting a letter writing campaign to address Good Housekeeping's eugenicist roots.  Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod ! PS  Marika's mic was taken over by gremlins so don't @ us, we tried our best! 

Bread! It's back and yeastier than ever! On this global, multi-century encompassing episode Emily and Marika discuss people in the Middle Ages getting worked up about leavening, Mexican bread cartels and the controversial, pretty upsetting history of fry bread. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod 

She's here and she's a lot! It's the first instalment of our series on BREAD! We've got a little science science science and a lot of Rome, because civilizations don't make bread, bread makes civilizations! Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod  

The mini ep that wasn't mini. It's another week with fermented milk, this time, kefir! Marika and Emily goss about its mythic origins and then scream about the dairy industry for 40 minutes. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod 

Let's go gurt! This week we're dishing on fermented milk aka yogurt! Everything is strawberry banana, from the mongol campaigns to the 70's health clinic raids. It's not something to laugh into your salad about, this is serious capitalist, patriarchal bullsh*t! Listen and find out! Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod and don't forget to rate review and subscribe!

We're coming at you with pickles! ... And some tangents which include: which Napoleon is which, bath towels and obscure American grocery stores. Follow us on instagram at @pantrystaplespod ! 

It's a soup, it's a flavouring, its... Miso! We've got a classic China vs Japan origin story, our thoughts on feudalism and Intangible Cultural Heritage Designations, Japanese style. Sidebars include Japanese cooking shows, but not in the way you expect!  Follow us on Instagram @pantrystaplespod for fun photos and our references 

We're taking a look at the spicier side of fermented cabbage and oooooh the articles were salty! We've got red pepper conspiracies and intangible cultural heritage debates as well as discussions about deep freezes, pop-up ads and chef bro culture. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod!

(But all nazis ARE a**holes)  It's the first episode of Season 2 and we are kicking it off with fermented cabbage! We've got all the Pantry Staples classics like our hatred of men, fusion restaurants and are really fired up about food insecurity. Follow us on instagram @pantrystaplespod 

It's a Christmas miracle! You didn't think we could do it but here it is! A true mini-episode! Emily tells Marika about the origin of the 12 Days of Christmas. 

Emily and Marika cover different tea rituals from around the globe in what was supposed to be a mini episode, but is anyone surprised it's not? Follow us on instagram at @pantrystaplespod and don't forget to rate review subscribe! Season 2 will be dropping very soon!