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Coffee Ice Cube Movement Grows Stronger

Hot weather means ice coffee time, and as you've heard from our episode with Marc Maron from the WTF podcast, I'm a big believer in iced coffee in its purest form: made with coffee iced cubes. Sporkful Eaters have documented previous evidence of coffee ice cube growth. Now Allen has this fresh example from Lifehacker, which offers various ways to

The Sporkful

Over a year ago we did a show on ice cubes. Well that episode has finally melted, which allows us to bring you a show on water. We discuss sparkling vs. still, bottled vs. tap, plus the best temperature and serving style.   Photo: Flickr CC / Joost J. Bakker IJmuiden

The Sporkful

Mark, Dan and fellow Bryant Park Project alum Jacob Ganz continue their conversation about tea, touching on new issues, including the world of iced and herbal. Plus, Jacob is the latest victim of our Proust-ish questionnaire. /mark   Photo: Flickr CC / 51106757@N04

The Sporkful

Longtime Sporkful devotees (with your help, we're still working on figuring out an official name for the fans) will remember that our second episode was on ice cubes, which sparked various discussions afterward. Among the topics we discussed, fighting the tendency of ice to dilute a drink as it cools it. Giant spheres of ice are one common strategy

Campari Thinks You’re Pretty Stupid

A favorite cocktail of mine is the formidable Negroni. You'll see it created with a most unorthodox method in our next Slate video, coming soon. My preferred recipe is after the jump. Campari gives the drink most of its signature color and bitterness, but if you look at the label of the current Campari bottle, it makes no mention of the

Take That, Marc Maron!

Sarah the Sporkful spy spotted this sign at il laboratorio del gelato in New York, more proof of the coffee ice cube movement's growing strength. Even gelato joints are taking a stand! In the recent coffee episode, special guest Marc Maron came out against my preference of making ice cubes out of coffee as a way of keeping iced coffee