In our Passover episode, I was stunned to learn that many American Jews rely on a religious text published by coffeemaker Maxwell House to mark Passover. Even the official White House Seder has used it. So how did the coffee colossus get into the Haggadah business? Sporkful Eater Beth found the answer in this article, an interesting tale at the intersection
Mary from New York has been listening to our coffee episode with Marc Maron, where I proposed my idea that the only true iced coffee is one with coffee ice cubes. Mary favors using espresso, chilled with a bartender's flair, using a cocktail shaker: Throw in your espresso, milk and sugar, add a handful of ice cubes last, shake, and strain
Bitter Elves Outtake.mp3 Listen on Posterous We had a lot of fun talking tea with fellow BPP alum Jacob Ganz (now of NPR's The Record music blog). Part 1 is up now and the second half will go up next week. But even after making two whole episodes, we still had a few fun exchanges that didn't quite fit in either. Here's
We talk tea, joined by NPR's music mastermind Jacob Ganz, of The Record blog, making it a Bryant Park Project reunion! As we talked, we realized the massiveness and importance of the topic, so we'll talk more about tea next week. /mark Photo: Flickr CC / like_the_grand_canyon
Sam in Oklahoma says the recent donut episode highlighted an ongoing quarrel in his family. He also says we didn't make a rigorous enough case for the yeast donut: The donut episode (which is presently in my top two) began a rather interesting argument between myself and my brother (who happens to be the guy you quoted
We didn't quite have room for this in our first donuts episode, but Dan's thoughts on dunking vessel size are worth your time. /mark