First Off: You voted and Priya Krishna’s INDIAN-ISH is our summer pick for the Culture Study Cookbook Club — I’ll post a link to specific recipe sign-ups in the next week, but for now, this is your sign to buy, borrow, or reserve a copy from your local library. And if you want to see how this worked last time around, here’s the post on the easy connection of a cookbook club and here’s what it looked like when hundreds of people cooked from Tenderheart.

Now, let’s talk about the thing I can’t shut up about: my new favorite podcast and why it works. And yes I’m paywalling this shit because I love to paywall the slightly trifling stuff that people can’t resist while keeping the trenchant stuff (and interviews with smart people) outside the paywall and available to all. Subscribe now and get it all!