Dan and Mark explore the best and worst foods for outdoor eating, including picnic lessons from Yogi Bear and Dan's mom. /mark Photo: Flickr CC / 22244945@N00
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On this week's show, we give some insight into our latest GastroLab video, in which we experiment with ways to incorporate crispy, burnt cheese into grilled cheese. Then we replay the first ever Sporkful, which covered grilled cheese sandwiches. Remember that our GastroLab videos are available as a separate iTunes video podcast. Subscribe now! Photo: Flickr CC / Maggie Hoffman
We get awesome mail from Sporkful fans in our e-mail box. (And we really do read them all, even if it takes us a while, since it's just Dan and I, after all.) But despite muscular anti-spam technology, some junk mail does slip through. That's what I thought we were getting when we saw an e-mail about World Nutella Day.
Today's View is a love letter to the overstuffed Brazilian burger, the X-Tudo. From Dave: It boasts all the normal hamburger accompaniments like tomato, lettuce, onion, cheese and bacon, but goes above and beyond by having a slice of ham, fried egg, corn and potato sticks. Brazilians have added these ingredients to create a whole new dimension of taste and texture
Chicago, IL, 12:00 pm. Jacky in Chicago shares, nay, taunts us with this pic: "lobster, butternut squash, leeks, pear walnut pesto naan-wich." We want to know what you're eating. Send images to thesporkful@gmail.com. Please include the location and time of the picture, and describe the food. /mark
Eleven-year-old Abbey and her family have made the Tot to Trot, the insane egg sandwich from our recent Slate video. They have some interesting twists: We substituted the tots for green onions and we also added bacon. It was very delicious. My younger sister has dubbed this the "Holy-u-lah" sandwich because she cannot say hallelujah. Hope y'all enjoyed it. Thanks for