We move beyond the traditional combo of marshmallow, chocolate, and graham cracker to experiment with alternative ingredients like peanut butter and ginger snaps, and alternative structures like mini graham cracker pie crusts. See photos of Nathaniel's back yard research here, and Dan's mini pie crust approach here.
I love the ingredients of s'mores, but I have a few issues with the way thse ingredients come together. First, I think that graham crackers are a subpar sandwich base, because they're so hard. When you bite into a s'more, you too often lose half the filling out the back, or the cracker splinters and the s'more falls apart entirely.
Eight-year-old Nathaniel Goodyear joins us next week for a special show about s'mores. In preparation for the show, he conducted a series of experiments on alternative s'more ingredients (pics below). I'll be doing work with alternative s'more structures over the weekend, and will post pics next week. It's all in search of a More Better S'more. /dp See the full gallery
We've gotten great ideas from you on topping burgers. Keep them coming. Here's a taste. Meg marvels at the baroque burgers abroad: You made my fiance very hungry, but you made me laugh because y'all are novices at burger toppings compared to the people here in Uruguay. A burger has on it, minimum, meat, cheese, ham, pancetta. Once
Nathaniel Goodyear joins us in studio for the taping of our s'mores episode, which arrives next week. We'll also be posting photos from Nathaniel's research on alternative s'more ingredients.
Yes, this appears to be real. I'm not sure whether the scent has the same effect on one's GI tract as the actual burgers. /dp
