Apparently yesterday was National French Fry Day. This helpful chart comes from FritesandFries.com. /dan
Here's the new lasagna sandwich, which is making waves across the pond. Looks like an interesting concept, but I'd like to see them try to get rid of the bread. I'll bet if they deep fried the top and bottom pasta layer, it could hold up without the bread. /dan
We love sporks, but before we did this show, we didn't realize how little we knew about them. All of the sporks I had encountered in the wild were made of plastic. It's only recently that Sporkful listeners have tipped us off to the exciting intersection of sporkdom and metallurgy. Gabe was intrigued by the Swiss Army multifunctionality of this
We take listener calls for the first time in show history! We try to resolve a New Haven pizza-related marital dispute, learn about a technique called "The Castle Wall," and debate French toast with a guy in France. More call in shows coming in the next few weeks. As you'll also hear, we have begun accepting donations to help keep The
As of this week, The Sporkful is accepting listener donations -- and offering cool stuff in return -- in order to pay for the cost of producing the podcast, and to keep it growing. The first thing we want to say is, we love doing The Sporkful, and are tremendously gratified by the response we've gotten, both to our podcast
I've always thought the ATF is an odd agency. You'd think overseeing alcohol, tobacco and firearms would be very different tasks. But this rifle-shaped vodka bottle is perhaps the best argument I've seen for the ATF's mandate. I'm waiting for someone to figure out a way to make it smokeable. /mark
The Sporkful celebrates July 4th by taking on a grilling essential. Round or tubular, toasted or steamed, and more unconventional approaches -- we cover it all, from top bun to bottom.