In this week's show, listener Pat in Ohio regales us with a tale of unrequited love, cookies, and ultimate redemption. Make these cookies for someone you covet, and if your cookies are rejected, you'll know it wasn't meant to be. But if the cookies are accepted and enjoyed, it just might be the start of something special, or at least
We're pleased to announce that the first official Sporkful Meetup will take place on Wednesday, April 13, from 6-8 pm at Drop Off Service in New York City! This is your chance to meet us, and to meet each other. The sooner we all start hanging out, the sooner we can take over the world. We'll have Sporkful T-shirts for
On this week's show we take a call from Wayne, who also emailed us some photos to illustrate the reason for his call. He writes: Listen- there is a problem out there and no one is addressing it. Restaurants are putting gorgeous dishes in front of diners with more concern for drama than for eatability. That's right, Eatability: the compatibility of
Dan and I exchange dozens of e-mails a week about Sporkful. I use gmail and love the confusion our often bizarre e-mail conversations evoke in Google's servers while they attempt to toss relevant ads our way. It's pretty hopeless for them. In the runup to last week's episode on water, Google's brain tried and failed so
Listen on Posterous Dan says he's no fan of sparkling water in our newest episode. I think he's missing out on the joys of seltzer, club soda and all water that sparkles and fizzes. In this bit that didn't make it into the podcast, we debate whether he may have dark, unknown issues disabling him from the joy of seltzer. The
This is what we're working on next. We just got our order of eight boxes of assorted Girl Scout Cookies. (I also got two extra boxes of Thin Mints for my own use.) Their slogan is "every cookie has a mission." They mean supporting Scouting, which we've done with our purchase. Our mission will be to find new ways to
I had the great fortune of a long, booze-soaked dinner with some Hawaii-based food writers the other day. As we discussed earlier, I was lucky enough to get a work trip routed through Hawaii and asked for advice. One of the most insightful commenters on Hawaii's food was Ryan Ozawa, who turns out also to be a social media genius