MSNBC's Rachel Maddow joins us this week to discuss the most pressing cocktail-related issues of the day, including the best and worst citrus garnish shapes. She also divulges her own recipefor a new and improved pina colada! To subscribe to The Sporkful podcast, and thus receive a sporkful of podcast goodness on your portable device every week, click here.
Friends of the Sporkful Dennis and Cindy recently acquired a box of Pumpkin Pie Pop-Tarts for testing purposes, a "limited edition" flavor that we think just might be a direct response to one of our Pop-Tart experiments in one of our recent Slate videos. The timing was perfect, since we're in the midst of a highly pumpkinized period of Sporkful. My taste test
http://www.slatev.com/media/swfs/SlateGroupPlayer.swf MSNBC host Rachel Maddow will be on The Sporkful in a couple weeks talking cocktails, but ahead of that, someone at her office appears to be conducting Sporkful-style Pop-Tart experiments, with alarming results. TVNewser reports that a Pop-Tart caught fire in the microwave during Monday night's show, setting off fire bells at 30 Rock. TVNewser is an excellent media blog,
Last week we spent time with Rachel Maddow discussing issues of the greatest import. Global politics? Nope. Election Day? Nope. Cocktail Philosophy? Of course. That episode will drop in a few weeks, but in the mean time, here's a photo of us with Rachel in her office.