45 episodes
Time For Lunch is a place to learn about eating, cooking, enjoying and sometimes playing with your food. Each episode will cover a new subject; taking a close look at one item, or ingredient, that might be found at the lunch table. Listeners are invited to participate, sharing jokes on-air or following along with in-episode quizzes and games. Hosted by Harry Rosenblum and Hannah Fordin, the show looks at food through the lens of history, culture, and play to celebrate and learn about the people and places that feed us. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Time For Lunch turns familiar foods into kid-friendly stories about design, memory, culture, history, and play.
Time For Lunch belongs on the Kids & Family shelf because it treats lunch foods like things worth wondering about, not just things to eat. In the sampled episodes, pasta shapes turn into a design question, lentils hold family memory and courage, eggs get explained through a…
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Dal, memory, and bravery come together through vivid kitchen detail.
The episode uses sensory detail to make dal feel immediate and lived in, especially through memories of a mother cooking in the kitchen and the sounds and smells of mustard seeds, curry leaves, and rice.
A lemonade stand becomes a lasting fundraising movement, and the numbers make the impact clear.
The story follows how a four-year-old's front-yard lemonade stand grew into Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, beginning with $2,000 on the first day and expanding into yearly stands with support from around the country and the world.
A focused look at pasta shapes, from sketchbook ideas and impossible molds to Zucca.
The episode treats pasta shapes as design problems, moving from sketchbooks and graph paper to a dye maker who keeps insisting the ideas cannot be made.
Three farm fresh eggs make packaging and shell colors feel clear, light, and easy to follow.
This episode stays focused on three farm fresh eggs, Shelby, Sheldon, and Ralph, and it keeps the food lesson easy to track. It explains what an egg is, how it is packaged, and where it can be sold, while the color lesson comes through clearly: different chicken breeds lay…
Manoush Zomorodi turns TED Talks into themed, multi-guest explorations of science and society.
Daily TED and TEDx talks hosted by Elise Hu, spanning science, psychology, and creativity.
Two hosts revisit one film, show, or book a week, plus long personal tangents.
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Time for Lunch’s “Rolling Pins!” traces the tool from Etruscan Tuscany and Indian chakla boards to modern kitchens, including Hannah Forden’s family nightstick-turned-rolling-pin.
What can dal remind you of?
A lemonade stand gets bigger.
The episode follows a pasta-shape puzzle: a guest talks about sketching ruffles and tubes on graph paper, then taking those drawings to the dye maker, who keeps saying the ideas are impossible to make.
Chunio uses freeze-thaw drying in the Andes, and some preserved potatoes survived 500 years.
Three eggs introduce themselves as Shelby, Sheldon, and Ralph.
A playful, interactive episode where hosts and listeners guess a mystery kitchen tool (spatula) through clues, blending food history and fun.
A playful, interactive episode where hosts and a special guest (cheese) engage in a guessing game about food.
A podcast exploring food through history, culture, and play, with quizzes and games about lunchtime ingredients.