Dan Pashman

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325 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 3d ago

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The Sporkful · Live: The Great Yogurt Feud · 21 Sep 2026 podcast

My kids love those ones.

They are really good.

But, you know, it wasn't exactly the way the godfathers of yogurt intended it.

This is the yogurt scene when someone very important to our story first sets foot in America.

The guy you heard at the start of the show.

Don't get

So you left Bulgaria.

How many suitcases did you pack?

I think it was one.

So you had to put, aside from some clothes, you had to put a handful of your most important worldly possessions into this suitcase to move to America.

And inside that suitcase was your yogurt starter culture.

Now, initially, Atanas just offered his yogurt to other Bulgarians, but so many other Bulgarians are already making yogurt in their own home, tough to build a business on that.

He sold small amounts to local health food stores, but he wanted more, not just for his business,

I'm going to start keeping track of the number of shots taken at Greek yogurt.

We're almost in double digits.

So when Antanas decided he was going to go commercial with his yogurt, the first thing he had to do was nail down his bacteria recipe.

He couldn't keep using the culture that he brought with him from Bulgaria all those years back.

But these companies can make all kinds of cultures with different ratios of the key bacteria.

Bulgarian yogurt tends to have a higher proportion of that lactobacillus bulgaricus.

After a lot of back and forth, Atanas landed on a recipe that tasted just like home.

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