The Secret Life Of Cookies

Sedition! Sedition!

The first guest of the year is CNN legal analyst Elliott Williams and principal at The Raben Group, who also…

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Special One-Year Anniversary Episode with Charles Finch

This week’s episode marks the one-year anniversary of the podcast. One whole year of baking and talking politics and current…

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Breaking News, Black Robe-itis and Cake with Katie Phang

This week, Marissa is joined by Katie Phang, a great legal mind, trial lawyer and MSNBC host and contributor. Katie…

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Is that Joy I Smell Cooking? with Travis Akers

This week, Marissa is joined by defense intelligence officer, veterans’ affair advocate – and one of the few people who…

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Make Pie Crust Without Fear (And Have Joy, to Boot): with Mollie Katzen

This week, we’ll be discussing something people find nearly as scary as the idea of Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis…

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Cocktails Live and In-Person with Mary Trump and Allison Gill

This week’s episode is very special for a whole slew of reasons, including guests Dr. Allison Gill of The Daily…

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Jersey and Food: Perfect Together with guest David Kamp

Writer David Kamp (The United States of Arugula, Sunny Days: The Children’s Television Revolution) and proud son of New Jersey shares…

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Ted Lasso Shortbread with Jennifer Taub

Whether you fancy yourself the Rebecca Welton character, or Ted Lasso himself, you know you have a need to eat…

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Land of Hope and Cheesecake: Mary Trump

This latest podcast has everything we need to keep ourselves afloat in these challenging times: hope, cheesecake and Mary Trump.…

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Grief and Hope: The Atlantic’s Jennifer Senior on How One Family Dealt with the Aftermath of 9/11.

This week, Marissa’s guest is the prolific and brilliant Jennifer Senior, a staff writer for The Atlantic, who has also been a…

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Oh! Those Problematic Suburban Women: Rachel Vindman and Some Very Good Brownies

Many brownies were made and eaten in the making of this episode, which features, Rachel Vindman, who reappears this week,…

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Simon Says: An interview with Simon Majumdar

This week, Marissa is joined by Food Network star, host of the “Eat My Globe” podcast and food historian Simon…

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Slaying Trolls with Snark: A Fascinating Conversation with Rachel Vindman

This week’s episode features a conversation with Rachel Vindman, whose life changed overnight when her husband Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman…

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Baking Royalty: The Queen of Cookies, Rose Levy Beranbau‪m‬

This week’s episode features world-famous cookbook author Rose Levy Beranbaum. Renowned for her cookbooks The Cake Bible, The Bread Bible,…

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COOOOOOOOOKIES! David Kamp, Cookie Monster and the Apple Freak on The Secret Life of Cookies

This week’s episode is very special episode, because it’s my birthday and I’m joined by one of my favorite people,…

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Tangled Up in Blue: Rosa Brooks and Policing in America

This week I’m joined by Rosa Brooks, Georgetown law professor and author of the new book, Tangled Up in Blue:…

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Live, Laugh, Love, Lasagna: Gisele Fetterman, Second Lady of Pennsylvania

This week the podcast is transformed into the Secret Life of Lasagna, as philanthropist, immigration activist and the Second Lady…

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Bats, Black Beans and ‘Pandemicide’: Life in the Time of Covid-19 with Laurie Garrett

Laurie Garrett, one of the most influential experts on global infectious diseases, joins the podcast this week and, as we…

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Comedy is Back, Finally: A Conversation with Nell Scovell

My guest this week is the brilliant and incredibly accomplished writer, Nell Scovell, who has written for Barack Obama, Hilary…

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Be Kind, Unwind: Mary Trump and What We Need Now

Mary Trump, psychologist, trauma expert and author of “Too Much Is Never Enough” is the guest this week, and we talk about…

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