Whatever shape your celebration is taking this festive season, food is likely playing a central role. While there’s no substitute for the tactile joy of thumbing through a cookbook complete with glossy illustrations, podcasts can offer free, limitless access to recipe ideas and tips from experts and civilians alike. And if you’re feeling fatigued from holiday overconsumption, there are plenty of shows that will reinvigorate your relationship to food heading into 2020, from nostalgic personal reflections on favorite dishes to deep dives into the history of staple ingredients.

Whether you’re a keen home chef or simply an enthusiastic eater, here are six podcasts about food that’ll teach you a few things in the kitchen while whetting your appetite.

‘The Sporkful’

This award-winning food podcast, now part of Stitcher, prides itself on being “not for foodies, but for eaters,” conveying a lack of pretension that underlies its appeal. The host, Dan Pashman, tackles food culture with curiosity and passion, aiming to learn about people through what and how they eat. Some of most memorable episodes of “The Sporkful” focus on hyperlocal food phenomena — why people line up for hours to buy a slice of pizza at Brooklyn’s beloved Di Fara, for instance. But the show is equally deft at tackling weightier questions, as in a recent episode that delved into the troubling use of the word “plantation” by white chefs and restaurateurs to describe certain dishes.

Starter episode: “When White People Say ‘Plantation’”

‘Spilled Milk’

In a recent episode of this charming show, the comedians Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton kicked off a conversation about sourdough bread by sampling an actual loaf, made from a sourdough starter they’d affectionately named Sylvia. This hands-on approach is central to “Spilled Milk,” in which the Seattle-based duo pick a single food or beverage to focus on each episode. The subjects can be as expansive as apples or as specific as peanut butter cups, and the two hosts go deep with a self-confessed goal to “run with it as far as [they] can — and, regrettably, sometimes further.” Though the show is less deliberately educational than many of the entries on this list, you’re likely to learn something in between the laughs and nostalgia. Eating on air is de rigueur here, so try getting through an episode without a snack at your own peril.