Our friends at Good Magazine's website have re-launched their food page, and as part of the festivities, they asked me to participate in something called "Food for Thinkers: An Online Festival of Food and Writing," and to respond to the question, "What does--or could, or even should--it mean to write about food today?" They have a bunch of interesting and
Southwestern friends Dennis and Cindy recently stopped in bearing gifts from their home in Southern Arizona. As you can see, they know me all too well, specifically my love for colorfully packaged global candy with catchy names and spicy/sweet/salty flavors. I've got plenty of candy homework ahead. /mark See the full gallery on Posterous
This week we continue our conversation on snack mix. We cover the best (and worst) ingredients and the importance of their relative size and weight, and we take listener suggestions for unorthodox approaches to snack mix. Photo: Flickr CC / stevendepolo
Daria Batzner is the newest President of The Sporkful Junior Eater's Society, thanks to the artistic riposte seen here. She took issue with Mark's anti-sprinkle stance in our Donuts show. For her efforts, Daria will receive a signed certificate proclaiming her a President of the SJES. Your child can do the same, just send us
In this outtake from this week's show, Dan recalls a lesson from a grade school history teacher and applies it to snack mix.
We're prepping for next week's GastroLab video shoot, in which we'll put together a rather absurd Valentine's Day meal. Today we got the five pound bag of candy hearts we ordered. Can you guess what we plan to do with them? (If you haven't seen some of our past GastroLab videos for Slate, check them out here.) See the full gallery
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