We talk turkey cooking science with Kenji Lopez-Alt of Serious Eats and Thanksgiving for vegetarians with Slate's L.V. Anderson. Plus, how not to make dessert with Brooke Gladstone of On The Media.
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As conceived in this week's Sporkful (with legendary Oklahoma weatherman Gary England), the Shattuck Tornado is cherry cobbler, vanilla ice cream and hot fudge. Plus Gary's secret ingredient.
I set out to learn all about cooking in a dishwasher, with help from a woman who wrote a book on the topic and a friend who's willing to destroy my dishwasher in the name of science. Click through for the video.
In this new video series, Dan competes with Liza de Guia of Food Curated in totally absurd cooking challenges. First up: The number they pick from a hat is the only supermarket aisle they can shop in. It gets weird.
Dan and Mark explore ideal chocolate chip cookie size, grip, chip structure, dunking and even grilling cookies. Dan tells the story of a long-running cookie mystery that ends in about eight visits to a bakery in two days, delicious chocolate chip cookies, and a stomach ache. Photo: Flickr CC / jarrodlombardo
So I'm in Germany on a journalism fellowship that's unrelated to food. But you know I'm going to do some culinary journalism while I'm here. Today, I even managed to find an ice cream story while on the science and technology beat. And it just so happens that my reporting duty included trying the ice cream.