ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Flavorphiles is the podcast and radio show where food, culture and lifestyle collide. Hosted by Michelin and James Beard recognized chef/bartender/restaurateur Tanner Agar and veteran broadcaster Jerry Agar, the show goes beyond recipes and restaurant chatter to explore how flavor shapes the way you live. From iconic chefs and celebrities who love to eat, to the cultural trends beyond what’s on your plate, Flavorphiles brings smart conversation, irresistible storytelling and a dash of fun to every episode. It’s not just about what tastes good – it’s about why flavor matters in everyone’s life.
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
40 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
53 episodes
since Oct. 28, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Most of what North America calls Mexican food barely scratches the surface. Tanner Agar, Michelin-winning chef and bartender, and broadcaster Jerry Agar go deeper. They start with pulque, the ancient agave drink older than tequila, and the spirits mezcal drinkers should know next: raicilla, bacanor…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Whatever happened to the dinner party? Have we gotten too busy, too intimidated, or just too comfortable ordering takeout to invite friends over for a proper meal?This week on Flavorphiles, Tanner and Jerry are bringing back the lost art of entertaining. First, they're joined by Toronto Star contri…
Baking looks simple until you actually try it.This week, Tanner and Jerry dig into why good cooks can be surprisingly bad bakers, and why baking rewards a completely different set of instincts. Tanner mixes up his signature Wake and Bake before they’re joined by Jen Hudson, contestant on The Great …
This week on Flavorphiles, Tanner and Jerry are back with a completely new Thanksgiving episode built for everything that happens after the basic advice runs out.First, we head to the Thanksgiving Emergency Room to tackle the disasters that can derail dinner. Frozen turkey? Broken gravy? Everything…
What is it really like to be a chef?This week, Tanner and Jerry get into the reality of chef life, from the long hours and low pay to culinary school, repetition, passion, and why working in restaurants is often more of a lifestyle than a normal job.Then we talk about Tony, the Anthony Bourdain fil…
For Talk Like a Pirate Day, Tanner and Jerry dig into the surprisingly strange food and drink history of life at sea. We start with what pirates actually ate, why their diet could sometimes give them an advantage over the Navy, and how scurvy became one of the biggest threats aboard ship. That incl…
Fall is farmers market season, but what does that actually mean when you live somewhere like Dallas?This week on Flavorphiles, Tanner and Jerry head into fall with a Harvest Highball made with applejack, an old-school American apple spirit, before turning the market into their own personal cooking …
Judging food is fun. Whether you’re ranking the best chefs on TV, challenging your friends to a ridiculous eating competition, or silently keeping score of everything a restaurant gets wrong, we all do it. This week, Tanner and Jerry are putting everything on the judging table.First, we look at foo…
Bitter gets a bad rap. We’re basically born suspicious of it, kids hate it, and yet somehow adults end up obsessed with coffee, dark chocolate, bitter greens, amaro, and aggressively hoppy beer.This week on Flavorphiles, Tanner and Jerry dig into why we learn to love bitter flavors, how bitterness …
This week on Flavorphiles, we are committing crimes against food. Allegedly. Tanner and Jerry dig into the strange, sticky, and surprisingly sophisticated world of food true crime.First, Tanner introduces the Amuse Booze: powdered alcohol. He knows how to make it, he will not be telling you how, an…
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