In honor of the great Marc Maron'srecent endorsement of The Sporkful, we're replaying his classic appearance on our podcast. Maron describes his dream cup of coffee, Mark Garrison extols the virtues of coffee ice cubes in iced coffee, and Dan explains why Maron's take on coffee makes him like Clint Eastwood in "Unforgiven."
When Marc Maron joined us for a show on coffee it happened to be during the Jewish holiday of Purim, when it's customary to eat hamentaschen cookies. So before we got to talking coffee, I shared some of the ones my wife had baked. Here's what happened next.
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