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Over the past few months, I’ve had the incredible opportunity to plan an event at Tufts that incorporates three of my favorite things: food, podcasts, and Judaism. I told my friends that if they see me around campus smiling in the coming days, it’s because I just can’t contain my excitement for the live recording of the Sporkful podcast and the chance to meet Dan Pashman, the mastermind behind this fantastically innovative radio show. I started listening to Dan’s podcast during the summer I spent in DC after my sophomore year at Tufts, when I started listening to a bunch of podcasts regularly. It wasn’t hard to find, as it’s the number one rated food podcast on iTunes, and it’s produced out of WNYC, the NPR station out of my own city, New York. Dan’s show is the perfect mix of humor, eating advice, history, and ridiculousness. His podcasts include interviews with comedians, debating the definition of a sandwich, the origins of the Belgian waffle in the US, and what foods/drinks are best to consume in the shower. Every time I listen to an episode of the show, I can expect to laugh, learn something new, and reassure myself that I’m not the craziest eater out there.
Dan’s return to his alma mater (yes, he's a fellow Jumbo) to record a live episode of his show has a great story behind it. Last Spring, after listening to his show for almost a year, I decided to email Dan with a food-related question and at the end of the email, I also invited him to come to campus during the next academic year to do some sort of lecture sponsored by the Culinary Society. He responded within a couple days, answered my food question, mentioned he was an alum, and told me to follow up in the Fall about coming to campus. I freaked out a bit, read the email a couple more times, and then just continued with my every day life (which of course included listening to the Sporkful every Monday or Tuesday). A couple weeks later, the Associate Director of Hillel invited me to his office to discuss the possibility of teaming up to do an event with Dan. It turns out that Lenny loves the Sporkful as much as I do, and reached out to Dan to put on an event through the Hillel Alumni Association. Thanks to my email a couple weeks earlier, Dan mentioned that he had also been in contact with Culinary Society. Since April, a group of Alumni, students, and staff have been planning the Sporkful at Tufts.
I’m thrilled to have been a part of this unique team of planners. It’s very rare that these three groups of people collaborate to put on an event at Tufts. This collaboration speaks to the opportunities that Tufts offers its students: there are so many ways to make something happen if you’re passionate enough about it happening. It’s also rare that one event I plan or am a part of speaks to so many of the things I love most. Thanks to the support of many communities within Tufts and the Tufts community as a whole, I have faith that this event is going to be a major success and our hard work will pay off. I hope the event serves as an example for future events at Tufts, as working with alumni, Hillel staff, and several student organizations has been such a great experience.
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