Welcome to Food People, a show from Bon Appétit made by, for, and about people who love food. Each week, BA’s editorial director Amanda Shapiro asks a serious or not-so-serious food question: What’s the best way to grill chicken? Can meal prep be less terrible? Are air fryers worth the hype? In search of answers or at least a spirited debate, she’ll bring in staffers, chefs, writers, and experts from across the culinary universe. Expect strong opinions, tons of recipe inspiration, and more food ...
Aug 26, 2021•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today… how Afghans are racing to erase their online lives, and the wild logistics of the Istanbul canal The stories we talked about this week: Afghans are racing to erase their online lives https://www.wired.co.uk/article/afghanistan-social-media-delete The wild logistics of the Istanbul Canal megaproject https://www.wired.co.uk/article/istanbul-canal-logistics Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Aug 20, 2021•38 min•Ep 531•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today… Apple’s controversial new child safety tool and we look at the rise of office tribes The stories we talked about this week: Apple Walks a Privacy Tightrope to Spot Child Abuse in iCloud https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-detection-icloud-photos-encryption-privacy/ Hybrid office tribes are here, and they’re a problem https://www.wired.co.uk/article/hybrid-working-office-tribes Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Aug 13, 2021•43 min•Ep 530•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today… we reveal the slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream and go inside the fungi renaissance The stories we talked about this week: The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream https://www.wired.co.uk/article/amazon-drone-delivery-prime-air Forget Impossible, the fungi renaissance is here https://www.wired.co.uk/article/fungi-protein-meat Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Aug 06, 2021•41 min•Ep 529•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today… Simone Biles and the brutal pressure of elite sport and how the UK’s NHS App became an unofficial Covid passport. Simone Biles will not be the last https://www.wired.co.uk/article/simone-biles-tokyo-olympics The NHS App has quietly become a vaccine passport https://www.wired.co.uk/article/nhs-app-covid-vaccine-passport Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Jul 30, 2021•43 min•Ep 528•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today… Germany looks to block one of the world’s biggest porn websites and we look at where cryptocurrency and bitcoin are going next. The stories we talked about this week: Germany is about to block one of the world’s biggest porn sites https://www.wired.co.uk/article/germany-porn-laws-age-checks The future of cryptocurrency – Cryptocurrency (WIRED guides): How Digital Money Could Transform Finance https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cryptocurrency-WIRED-guides-Digital-Transform-ebook/dp/B08LPGH...
Jul 23, 2021•49 min•Ep 527•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today… we unveil the best day of the week to go into the office and discuss the biggest rule change in Formula 1 history The stories we talked about this week: The best day to go into the office is… https://www.wired.co.uk/article/best-day-return-office Inside Formula 1’s biggest ever rule change https://www.wired.co.uk/article/f1-rules-2022-cars Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Jul 16, 2021•38 min•Ep 526•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today… we dig deep into the biometric surveillance tech boom and Natasha has a fun day out at a farm. This week James and Matt B ask whether we should ban biometric surveillance? Improvements in artificial intelligence mean it’s possible to analyse and identify people by their walk, their veins, their face, their fingers and even the shape of their ears. As a result, the biometrics industry is booming – it’s expected to grow to between $60 billion and $80bn in the coming years. However...
Jul 09, 2021•50 min•Ep 525•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today... we revisit the idea of herd immunity for Covid-19 and consider how the Delta variant is causing travel chaos. The stories we talked about this week: The UK’s summer of travel chaos https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-green-list-travel-holidays We might never reach herd immunity https://www.wired.co.uk/article/covid-19-herd-immunity Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Jul 02, 2021•40 min•Ep 524•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today... we explain how the Delta variant took over and delve deep into the mysteries of the golden triangle. The stories we talked about this week: How the Delta variant took over https://www.wired.co.uk/article/delta-variant-uk Warehouses are taking over the Earth https://www.wired.co.uk/article/warehouses-next-day-delivery Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Jun 25, 2021•45 min•Ep 523•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today... how Apple might eat the newsletter industry, and why quantum computing could unravel some of the mysteries of the universe The stories we talked about this week: Quantum computers are already detangling nature’s mysteries https://www.wired.co.uk/article/quantum-computing It looks like Apple is after Substack’s email empire https://www.wired.co.uk/article/apple-newsletter-tracking Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn about your ad choices: ...
Jun 18, 2021•39 min•Ep 522•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today... we explain what really went down when the internet went down and ask a big question: should you ditch Google Chrome? The stories we talked about this week: What really went down when the internet went down https://www.wired.co.uk/article/fastly-internet-outage It’s time to ditch Chrome https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-chrome-browser-data Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Jun 11, 2021•52 min•Ep 521•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today... we look at the future of mRNA vaccine revolution and explore the use of brain training apps as a tool for tackling police brutality. The stories we talked about this week: The mRNA vaccine revolution is just beginning: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-vaccine-revolution-katalin-kariko Brain training games are here to end police brutality https://www.wired.co.uk/article/brain-training-stop-police-shootings Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess...
Jun 04, 2021•41 min•Ep 520•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today, the rise and rise of astrology apps and we delve deep into the controversies surrounding India’s faltering vaccination drive. The stories we talked about this week: India’s CoWin vaccine booking system is a nightmare https://www.wired.co.uk/article/india-covid-vaccine-cowin Lonely men are driving an online astrology boom wired.co.uk/article/online-astrology-men Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by James Temperton Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/a...
May 28, 2021•38 min•Ep 519•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today the wild rise LadBaby and the Facebook Famous and we look at what’s cooking in the world of cultured meat. The stories we talked about this week: LadBaby and the wild rise of the Facebook Famous https://www.wired.co.uk/article/ladbaby-facebook-famous What’s cooking in the world of cultured meat Published on 25.05.21, check WIRED.co.uk for the full story Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by James Temperton Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
May 21, 2021•46 min•Ep 518•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today… it’s Uber versus cabbies once again and we try to untangle the complex future of end-to-end encryption. The stories we talked about this week: An epic row is brewing over Uber’s Soho ‘taxi rank’ https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uber-soho-taxi-rank Police caught one of the web’s most dangerous paedophiles. Then everything went dark https://www.wired.co.uk/article/whatsapp-encryption-child-abuse Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn about your a...
May 14, 2021•53 min•Ep 517•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today… we talk about the weather and try to get the bottom of the weird world of dumb corporate rebrands. The stories we talked about this week: Why brands ditching vowels are rlly stpd https://www.wired.co.uk/article/abrdn-rebrand-vowels Bad weather forecasts are a climate crisis disaster https://www.wired.co.uk/article/solar-weather-forecasting Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
May 07, 2021•36 min•Ep 516•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today… we investigate football’s social media boycott and hear about how Māori are trying to save their language from Big Tech. The stories we talked about this week: Māori are trying to save their language from Big Tech https://www.wired.co.uk/article/maori-language-tech Social media managers are on the frontline of football’s racism problem [Available May 1, 2021] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/premier-league-social-media-boycott Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) ...
Apr 30, 2021•40 min•Ep 515•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today… we get acquainted with the mutant rats taking over the office you abandoned a year ago and ask a seemingly simple question: robots… humans or animals? The stories we talked about this week: Your office has been taken over by an army of mutant rats https://www.wired.co.uk/article/office-mutant-rats Robots are animals, not humans https://www.wired.co.uk/article/robots-animals-kate-darling Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn about your ad choi...
Apr 23, 2021•39 min•Ep 514•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today… we delve into golf’s existential crisis and have a very serious chat about puppies. The stories we talked about this week: Golf is facing an existential crisis https://www.wired.co.uk/article/golf-crisis-masters-bryson-dechambeau How to stop your pandemic puppy from going loco as lockdown lifts (available from April 17, 2021) https://www.wired.co.uk/article/pandemic-puppies-loneliness-anxiety-dogs Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn about y...
Apr 16, 2021•42 min•Ep 513•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today… we go on a quest to find out how to make cheesy cheese-free cheese and we delve into New Zealand’s Covid-19 bin mystery. The quest to make genuinely cheesy dairy-free cheese https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dairy-free-cheese What the world can learn from New Zealand’s Covid-19 bin mystery https://www.wired.co.uk/article/new-zealand-zero-covid-transmission Music by Filip Hnizdo. Show produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-ch...
Apr 09, 2021•40 min•Ep 512•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today… F1 supremo Lewis Hamilton on the science of success, activism and what comes next and we explore the future of artificial intelligence. The stories we talked about this week: Lewis Hamilton opens up about activism and life beyond F1 https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lewis-hamilton Getting AI to work in a fleshy, messy world is harder than you think https://www.wired.co.uk/article/artificial-intelligence-future Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Le...
Apr 02, 2021•47 min•Ep 511•Transcript available on Metacast How one of the world's largest tech trade shows still plans to go ahead this year and we explore the fascinating future of personalised medicine. MWC's biggest exhibitor is a tiny startup nobody's ever heard of https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mwc-2021-exhibitors A dying child, a mother's love and the drug that changed medicine https://www.wired.co.uk/article/milasen-aso-gene-therapy Music by Filip Hnizdo Produced and edited (remotely) by Matt Burgess Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org...
Mar 26, 2021•36 min•Ep 510•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today… we chart the rise and fall of Football Index and explain what the hell is going on with non-fungible tokens. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 19, 2021•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today… the long-term psychological impacts of surviving ICU with Covid-19 and how Slack can actually fix workplace communications. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 12, 2021•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today: we explain why anecdotal benefits of microdosing might only be a placebo effect and find out how a bunch of deepfakes could one day replace the cast of The Simpsons. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 05, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Uber lawsuit feeding frenzy, how growing grapes in space can make wine better on Earth and the reality of life under Myanmar’s internet shutdown. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Feb 26, 2021•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today: What Uber’s loss in the Supreme Court means for the gig economy, why Facebook was right to ban news in Australia and we go inside the UK’s controversial Covid-19 challenge trial Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Feb 19, 2021•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today: Matt Reynolds delves into the origins of the UK Covid-19 variant, Natasha looks at how Amazon saved Deliveroo from disaster and Amit charts the strange demise of Habbo Hotel Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Feb 12, 2021•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Coming up today: we explain how QAnon took over yoga, look at Google’s plan to rewrite the rules of the web and investigate the scammers getting rich from the lockdown puppy boom. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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