# Ham El-Waylly’s Comfort Food Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dinner-plan-7020485/ham-el-waylly-s-comfort-food Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dinner-plan-7020485/ham-el-waylly-s-comfort-food.md Podcast: [The Dinner Plan](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dinner-plan-7020485) Published: 2026-03-19T10:37:00+00:00 Episode link: https://thedinnerplan.substack.com/p/ham-el-waylly Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66c89a9da45b7b5037ed3a26/e/69af3cd4b58ea3074dd33015/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-dinner-plan-7020485/episodes/ham-el-waylly-s-comfort-food Duration seconds: 2824 ## Resource Ham El-Waylly has a restaurant—Strange Delight in Brooklyn—but the chef's new book, Hello Home Cooking , is not a restaurant cookbook. In this interview with host Maggie Hoffman, Ham shares his most important tips for home cooks, including smart farmers market shopping advice, thoughts on your nonstick cookware, and his favorite thing to put on a salad. He also shares his most beloved out-of-print cookbooks, memories of his mother's cooking, and the snacks and comfort food he'd sneak from the freezer while playing video games as a kid. Hop over to The Dinner Plan's newsletter at TheDinnerPlan.Substack.com to get the free recipe of the week. ____ Thanks to today's sponsors: Rouxbe Online Culinary School:  Get 30% off your first course with code DINNERPLAN30 at Rouxbe.com/dinnerplan Dirty Labs :  Use code THEDINNERPLAN to get 15% off your first order at DirtyLabs.com Society Insurance : Find your agent at SocietyInsurance.com Made In Cookware:  Head to  madein.cc/dinnerplan  to unlock your discount offer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-dinner-plan-7020485/episodes/ham-el-waylly-s-comfort-food/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dinner-plan-7020485/ham-el-waylly-s-comfort-food.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.