No Bad Food

Hosted ByTom Zalatnai & Teffer Adjemian

A show about great food and the people who love to make & eat it. Every week, we dig into a different dish, meal, ingredient, cuisine, or piece of food media, exploring the history & culture around it, sharing favorite recipes, and learning from our wonderful guests. The only rule? You've gotta love it. After all, there's no such thing as bad food.


All Episodes

95. Munch Madness: Rice Vs. Olives; Bread Vs. Burgers ft. Amanda McLoughlin & Cupcakedex

This week, hosts Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) and Teffer Adjemian (@tefferbear) call up special guest judges Amanda McLoughlin (@shessomickey) and Cupcakedex (@cupcakedex) to help us decide the fate of our next two Munch Madness matchups! Will the chad Rice knock out the (extra) virgin Olive? Will reigning champ Bread hand over its crown to Burgers? Am I just realizing now that Burger King would make a spectacular sponsor for this tournament? I need to go send some emails…

94. Munch Madness: Chicken Vs. Salad; Honey Vs. The Bread Basket ft. Eric Silver & Lee Kim

This week, hosts Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) and Teffer Adjemian (@tefferbear) call up special guest judges Eric Silver (@el_silvero) and Lee Kim (@hunny_dill_) to help pick which foods move forward to the next round of the tournament! Will Chicken find the courage to tell Salad to leaf? Will The Bread Basket prove sweet enough to conquer Honey, or is this one for the bees? I don’t know what any of this means. Munch Madness!

93. Munch Madness: Hot Sauce vs Beef; Mustard vs Berries ft. Greg Schulz & Giovanni Colantonio

This week, hosts Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) and Teffer Adjemian (@tefferbear) call up special guest judges Greg Schulz (@giantwerewolf) and Giovanni Colantonio (@marioprime) to hear their arguments for which foods deserve to move forward to the next round of Munch Madness! Will hot sauce prove too hot to handle, or will beef steak home the gold? Will mustard have enough faith to move mountains, or will berries bury the competition?

92. Munch Madness: Coffee vs. Dumplings; Pasta vs. Salsa ft. Billy Eff & Andrew Henderson

This week, hosts Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) and Teffer Adjemian (@tefferbear) call up special guest judges Billy Eff (@billyefflechef) and Andrew Henderson (@arhenderson) to kick off the first round of Munch Madness 2023! Will last year’s runner-up Coffee knock out Dumplings and start another sweep? Will our season 1 champ Pasta give newcomer Salsa a run for its money?

91. Munch Madness 2023 Bracket Reveal!

This week, hosts Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) and Teffer Adjemian (@tefferbear) break down and reveal this year’s Munch Madness tournament bracket! Which foods made the cut this year? Which food will win the title of Best Food of the Year? Which foods will get scrapped and left in the compost bucket? There’s only one way to find out. By listening. Obviously.

90. Pancakes! Ft. Matt Cole

This week, host Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) calls up longtime friend of the show Matt Cole (@mc_dj_mc) to talk about pancakes! That’s right baby, it’s a Mardi Gras episode! We get into the history of pancakes, the ideal texture for a perfect pancake, and also some cursed things! Then, Tom leads Matt through a game of IHOP or I Shop!

89. Aphrodisiacs!

This week, hosts Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) and Teffer Adjemian (@tefferbear) celebrate Valentine’s Day the only way they know how: with an intimate investigation of aphrodisiacs, human sexuality, and the power of pleasure in both food & sex! Warning: this show is and always has been explicit, but today’s episode is like.. extra full of words you might not want your kid to hear in the car, so, like, you’ve been warned!

88. Persimmons!

This week, hosts Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) and Teffer Adjemian (@tefferbear) dish up tons of funs facts about everyone’s favorite hyper-seasonal squishy fruit, the persimmon!

87. The No Bad Food Recipe Club On Patreon & Discord!

This week, hosts Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) and Teffer Adjemian (@tefferbear) invite you to consider supporting our show on Patreon! We’ve set ourselves a goal of $50/month in pledges by the end of February 2023! Tune in to learn about all of the awesome perks included for members at different levels, and then run over to www.patreon.com/nobadfoodpod and help us get there! Plus, we tease our exciting new side-project, the No Bad Food Recipe Club!