Cooking with Bruce and Mark

Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough

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Episodes 356

Avg. Duration 21m

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Apple Rating ★ 4.8 (127)

Since Sep 2015

Latest Episode Oct 2025

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Join us, Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough, for weekly episodes all about food, cooking, recipes, and maybe a little marital strife on air. After writing thirty-six cookbooks, we've got countless opinions and ideas on ingredients, recipes, the nature of the cookbook-writing business, and much more. If you've got a passion for food, we also hope to up your game once and a while and to make you laugh most of the time. Come along for the ride! There's plenty of room!

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Recent Episodes

S4E100 WELCOME TO OUR KITCHEN: We're talking about childhood favorites that even we food snobs can't make better!

Oct 06, 2025 20m Transcript

Are there foods from your childhood you can't make better, even with all you know about cooking? We've got a list, despite our current snobbery. We may have written for WINE SPECTATOR and FINE…

S4E99 WELCOME TO OUR KITCHEN: We're talking about fall grilling!

Sep 29, 2025 19m Transcript

It's not too late in the year for grilling! Although we're starting to tip to autumnal colors and although Mark is busy taking down our gardens, we're still firing up both the charcoal and the gas…

S4E98 WELCOME TO OUR KITCHEN: We're talking about secret ingredients to up your cooking game!

Sep 22, 2025 17m Transcript

Did you know there are simple additions to recipes that can take your favorite dishes over the top? We've got a list of single ingredients that up the game for all sorts of foods (or even take-out…

S4E97 WELCOME TO OUR KITCHEN: We're talking about the weirdest foods we've ever eaten!

Sep 15, 2025 24m Transcript

We've been in the food business for over twenty-five years . . . and we're involved with food long before we started to writing about it. We've eaten a lot of weird things. So here are some of the…

S4E96 WELCOME TO OUR KITCHEN: We're talking about ketchup!

Sep 08, 2025 24m Transcript

Ketchup. We all know what it is. But do we? It's not a thing. It's actually a category.Where's the word come from? How was it originally used? When was the first ketchup recipe? How has it become the…

S4E95 WELCOME TO OUR KITCHEN: We're reacting to a list of the top chain restaurants in the United States!

Sep 01, 2025 30m Transcript

What are the top chain restaurants in the United States? Have we been to them? What do we think about them? You might be surprised by how many we have (or haven't!) been to.We've also got a…

S4E94 WELCOME TO OUR KITCHEN: We're talking about chaos cooking!

Aug 25, 2025 26m Transcript

Chaos cooking. A new trend. Well, sort of new. About two years old at this point, but it's found it's way into restaurants across the country. What started as a "throw it from the pantry into a pot"…

S4E93 WELCOME TO OUR KITCHEN: We're talking about fiber-maxxing, the latest social-media craze!

Aug 18, 2025 21m Transcript

Fiber-maxxing. It's the latest social-media craze among food and fitness influencers. What is it? Why is it absurd? But also, why does it touch on something very important?We're Bruce Weinstein &…

S4E92 WELCOME TO OUR KITCHEN: We're talking about the rise and fall of the Instant Pot.

Aug 11, 2025 29m Transcript

What happened to the Instant Pot? It's come off its highs and changed dramatically. Its story is not one of overproduction or the whims of popularity. It's a more complicated story that involves…

S4E91 WELCOME TO OUR KITCHEN: What have we learned after publishing thirty-seven cookbooks?

Aug 04, 2025 26m Transcript

We've learned a lot after writing and publishing after thirty-seven cookbooks. We'd love to share with you those lessons.We're Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough. We've actually written forty…

S4E90 WELCOME TO OUR KITCHEN: What's with so much nostalgia in food trends?

Jul 28, 2025 29m Transcript

Nostalgia is such a big part of food trends. It shows up in dining, cooking, cookbooks, food writing, even food packaging. Think of that old-fashioned truck on the Peach Truck boxes!Why is nostalgia…

S4E89 WELCOME TO OUR KITCHEN: The biggest trends in burger toppings for 2025!

Jul 21, 2025 22m Transcript

Burgers! What are they without their toppings? Let's talk about the most popular trends for burger toppings in 2025!We're Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough, veteran cookbook authors of…

S4E88 WELCOME TO OUR KITCHEN: We're talking about ice cream trends for summer, 2025!

Jul 14, 2025 22m Transcript

We all love ice cream. As our photographer, Eric Medsker, says: "Even bad ice cream is good ice cream." It's hard to argue with that!What are the trends for ice cream in the summer of 2025. We've…

S4E87 WELCOME TO OUR KITCHEN: We're going on side quests!

Jul 07, 2025 28m

Side quests. A term from gaming but now a part of cultural moment. Everyone has a side quest, a way to find and fulfill their passions, even as they do whatever they do to pay the bills.We're Bruce…

S4E86 WELCOME TO OUR KITCHEN: We're talking about AI-generated recipes!

Jun 30, 2025 31m Transcript

No doubt, the internet is being flooded with AI recipes. In fact, even unscrupulous publishing is being flooded by these generated recipes as small, independent publishers pop up who take advantage…

S4E85 WELCOME TO OUR KITCHEN: We're talking about simple food substitutions!

Jun 23, 2025 24m Transcript

What happens when you don't have on hand what a recipe requires?We're Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough, veteran cookbook authors of over three dozen cookbooks (not counting the ones we…

S4E84 WELCOME TO OUR KITCHEN: We're talking about food recalls!

Jun 16, 2025 24m Transcript

Food recalls! They happen all the time. It seems there's always another one announced. What are some of the latest? And what are steps we can take to make sure we're safe at the table?We're Bruce…

S4E83 WELCOME TO OUR KITCHEN: We're making a cold canning batch of bread-and-butter pickles!

Jun 09, 2025 20m Transcript

Bread-and-butter pickles. Always in our fridge all summer long. But we don't want to go to the hassle of canning them in huge batches. We don't need to survive the apocalypse with pickles!This recipe…

S4E82 WELCOME TO OUR KITCHEN: We're making eighteen-spice curry oil!

Jun 02, 2025 24m Transcript

Curry oil. Eighteen spices. A culinary wonder: herbal, aromatic, and irresistible.We're making eighteen-spice curry oil, a great finishing oil for take-out or even your own curries. To find this…

S4E81 WELCOME TO OUR KITCHEN: We're making Cowboy Candy!

May 26, 2025 26m Transcript

Cowboy candy: sweet, spicy jalapeño rings. They're a part of Mark's childhood. We're headed to the kitchen to make a small batch without any need of a steam- or pressure-canner.This recipe comes from…

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How many episodes does Cooking with Bruce and Mark have?

Cooking with Bruce and Mark has published 356 episodes since September 2015, covering topics in Arts, Education.

Is Cooking with Bruce and Mark still active?

Cooking with Bruce and Mark is currently dormant with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 21m.