Dan and Mark come in from the cold of winter to talk hot chocolate, whether made with milk, cream, or even water and Swiss Miss. They debate marshmallows, whipped cream, booze and other warm, weighty issues. /mark Photo: Flickr CC / scottdshaffer
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Our newest highly topical interview with the awesome Madeleine Brand, the rare public radio host able to analyze Mideast affairs and namecheck Bow Wow Wow in the same show with equal confidence and credibility. We look at the good and the bad of popular Valentine's Day candies, such as heart-shaped chocolate boxes and conversation hearts. Since
To help you take your Valentine's Day to the next level, we experiment with new uses for chocolate hearts and candy conversation hearts. Plus, we make the case for adding another type of heart to the holiday.
We get awesome mail from Sporkful fans in our e-mail box. (And we really do read them all, even if it takes us a while, since it's just Dan and I, after all.) But despite muscular anti-spam technology, some junk mail does slip through. That's what I thought we were getting when we saw an e-mail about World Nutella Day.
Auburn, AL, 11:12 am. Chocolate bourbon pecan pie, a fall favorite. Send along pics of your laptop meals to thesporkful@gmail.com. Please include the location and time of the picture, and describe the food.
The Happy Meal Project we talked about the other day got me thinking about another food seemingly impervious to time. Back when I worked at CNN (long before my journalistic universe expanded to include creating crazy videos about bacon-laced waffles or the Inversewich), this humble slice of chocolate crumb cake sat on a desk just outside Anderson Cooper's office for