This week we discuss wedding food strategy from both the planner's and guest's perspective, and preview Mark's upcoming wedding. We offer techniques for keeping your guests on their feet (and thus energized and ready to party), and we go over the Cocktail Hour Buddy System. Next week in Pt. 2, we'll offer post-wedding analysis of Mark's big day! Photo: Flickr CC
Dinner Party Downloadhosts Rico Gagliano and Brendan Francis Newnam join us to talk, well, dinner parties, including preparing, serving and of course, drinking. Fans of DPD? You have fine taste; thanks for checking out Sporkful. Don't know Brendan and Rico's certified awesome podcast? It's now 100 episodes strong and it's time you subscribe. They know dinner parties, but that's not what
As Sporkful fans already know, the Negroni is among my favorite cocktails. The other night it came to me in a dream. But at one point the dream took an unusual turn. A bottle of rum asked me if it could stand in for gin. (Note: this was not a talking bottle of rum with a mouth. That would be
A while back we had Rachel Maddow on for an episode on Cocktail Philosophy, and you may recall that during that episode taping, Rachel brought a can of the dreaded Coco Lopez Cream of Coconut, which she autographed for us. We held a raffle for this one-of-a-kind item for Sporkful supporters, and we have a winner! This drawing was not
Our recent show on cocktails with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow was a revelation for Sporkful fan (and cocktail photo-sharer) Linda in Boston. Rachel was very clear that she never eats the garnish in drinks, and that has Linda, a martini drinker, "all of a sudden rethinking my adult beverages." She also says her father, a frugal drinker, has a very specific
MSNBC host and cocktail enthusiast Rachel Maddow inspired the improved pina colada in our latest Slate video, but there are things she won't do with liquor. For one, she doesn't want to chase her whiskey with a shot of pickle juice. Take a listen to her thoughts on the pickleback trend that has been gradually expanding in recent months. It's