The conversation continues with a fierce debate over whether there's anything wrong with a salad that requires a knife to eat. Also covered: croutons and other crunchy toppings, once again with our buddy Win Rosenfeld. Photo: Flickr CC / sa_ku_ra
We got this pic from Carolynn, who writes: Hey guys - love your podcast. The view from my laptop is in a classroom at The New England Culinary Institute, where I am currently a student in the BA in Culinary Arts program. It's only my third week, and I'm having a blast. The photo was taken on a Friday around 4:30
In case you're a weirdo who doesn't like Tina Fey, or you already own the book and want something else, that's cool too. Betty White has a new book out, ditto Nikki Six, Bethenny Frankel, and Erik Larsen (author of "Devil in the White City"). How's that for diversity? You can get any one of Audible's 85,000 titles, which work
A few weeks ago we read an email on the show from 14-year-old Michael in Buffalo Grove, IL, whose teacher asked his class, "Where else have you heard about surface-area-to-volume ratio?" Without raising his hand, he (correctly) shouted out, "The Sporkful!" Everyone in class apparently laughed, and we encouraged him to make sure his teacher knows he's acing science class
Awesome cartoon by the folks at Buttersafe, via Nancy Martira. /dan
See the full gallery on Posterous This email came to us from Ronnie in California, a new listener who's getting caught up on past episodes. He recently listened to our French Fry Toppings show, and had this to say: I felt really let down that you didn't cover one of California's ghastly abomination of a "fusion" food; carne asada fries. I say this
In honor of the great Marc Maron'srecent endorsement of The Sporkful, we're replaying his classic appearance on our podcast. Maron describes his dream cup of coffee, Mark Garrison extols the virtues of coffee ice cubes in iced coffee, and Dan explains why Maron's take on coffee makes him like Clint Eastwood in "Unforgiven."