His book is this really beautiful and very personal memoir about Dan’s obsession with food and the ways it dictated his life, both good and bad … Dan really wears his heart on his sleeve. It strikes a ...

Comedian Dan Ahdoot has a special relationship with food, more so than most. Growing up in New York to parents who fled from Iran to Israel, and then to New York in the early 1970s, the way he ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with the comedian and actor on his new book, Undercooked: How I Let Food Become My Life Navigator and How Maybe That's a Dumb Way to Live.

AHDOOT: It's just - I feel like we'll never have that kind of emotional connection that, like, white people have with their parents. But it'll make you write a book to get it off your chest like ...