--- description: Find out why "Home Cooking" is on TIME's list of the 100 best podcasts of all time. title: 'Home Cooking' Is on The 100 Best Podcasts of All Time image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte5b39a50822db333/6998c87f7323af9a532bcb5d/Best-Podcasts-2025-Home-Cooking-045.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Jul 23, 2025 # Home Cooking A feel-good cooking show by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/) ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent  **_Society_** The warm, bubbly, and ridiculously knowledgeable chef [Samin Nosrat taught me how to cook](https://time.com/5421575/samin-nosrat/ "undefined"). Her James Beard Award-winning book, _Salt Fat Acid Heat_, doesn't just list recipes but teaches readers the principles of cooking so they're confident enough in the kitchen to improvise rather than follow a recipe. Her Netflix show of the same name endeavored to do the same. Then, in 2020, when many of us were stuck at home and cooking far more than usual, [Nosrat](https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2019/5567705/samin-nosrat/ "undefined") teamed up with veteran podcaster and real-life buddy Hrishikesh Hirway for a Radiotopia show called _Home Cooking_ that answered listener cooking questions ranging from what to do with [all the damn beans](https://open.spotify.com/episode/67woFBbirYHIwsm7vsG8pm "undefined") we had stocked up on in our pantries to how to cook [Thanksgiving dinner for one or two.](https://open.spotify.com/episode/2kZaOf3cC6ClHv4n8gCxF3 "undefined") Nosrat and Hirway’s bright, pun-filled conversations not only offered useful cooking advice, but became a much needed refuge from the isolation of that period. The show returned briefly as the world opened up and people’s cooking questions moved on to topics like how to throw dinner parties again. I have been on the hunt for a similarly blissful cooking show ever since. Thankfully, ahead of the publication of Nosrat's highly anticipated second cookbook, _Good Things_, _Home Cooking_ has returned to our AirPods. I'm happy to report it's as delightful as ever. 'Home Cooking': 100 Best Podcasts ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-best-podcasts/7303084/home-cooking/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-best-podcasts/7303084/home-cooking/"},"headline":"Home Cooking","datePublished":"2025-07-23T11:19:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:52:34.857Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/100-best-podcasts/7303084/home-cooking/","keywords":["podcasts","list","Podcast","Special Project"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte5b39a50822db333/6998c87f7323af9a532bcb5d/Best-Podcasts-2025-Home-Cooking-045.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"creator":"Eliana Dockterman","articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte5b39a50822db333/6998c87f7323af9a532bcb5d/Best-Podcasts-2025-Home-Cooking-045.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/podcasts/","name":"podcasts"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-best-podcasts/7303084/home-cooking/","name":"Home Cooking"}}]}] ```