What's better than ice cream cones? How about ice cream cones with ice cream sandwiches with Magic Shell? If that sounds delicious/insane, then watch this video to see that and more, compliments of your friends at The Sporkful.

The latest installment in The Sporkful's GastroLab series is this video, in which we take the humble russet potato and experiment with ways to turn it into a dessert. We prepare Fully Loaded Baked Potato Cookies, engineer sweet French fries for milkshake dipping, and then blow...

The great Marc Maron guested on The Sporkful recently for a hilarious discussion of all things coffee. Maron describes his dream cup of joe, Mark Garrison extols the virtues of coffee ice cubes in iced coffee and I explain why Maron's take on coffee makes him...

In the latest GastroLab video from us folks at The Sporkful, we come up with some novel ways to eat your Girl Scout Cookies, by taking inspiration from the Girl Scout credo: Courage, Confidence, and Character. We combine Girl Scout Cookies with ham, potato chips, and much more.

You'd think he'd be smarter than this.

After years of controversy, "President" Obama attempted to quiet critics today by releasing his full "birth certificate," and I've never felt so insulted. I thought the most powerful man in the greatest country on earth would know somebody who could properly forge...

I didn't see Sucker Punch, and chances are, neither did you.

The heavily-hyped special effects film opened Friday, but it lost the weekend box office battle to Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, a kids' film that cost a quarter as much to make.

Some people...

Whenever unrest breaks out in the Middle East, the first thing protesters do is start throwing stones. From the pictures and video, you'd think they have a never-ending supply of stones that fit perfectly into the palm of one's hand. It seems amid all the chaos and uncertainty in Egypt...

Washington is abuzz with the news that a quarter-million confidential cables from American diplomats around the world have been leaked to the press through a group called Wikileaks. The documents provide insider accounts of high level wheeling and dealing, candid threat assessments, and -- gasp! -- diplomats' honest...

I'm a big proponent of brining your turkey, as I make clear in this week's Thanksgiving episode of my food podcast, The Sporkful. (Here's a quick primer if you want to learn more about the basics of brining.) The most important thing about brining...

Rachel Maddow joined me recently on my food podcast The Sporkful, where our motto is "It's not for foodies, it's for eaters," and she proved herself a worthy guest.

During our discussion on Cocktail Philosophy, Rachel showed that, like Sporkful fans everywhere, she's always pursuing...

North Korea announced recently that it will allow more American tourists to travel to the isolated nation. But lifting restrictions alone may not be enough to woo visitors. If North Korea is serious about attracting Americans, they need a cohesive marketing strategy. That's why I've prepared the following...

Move over Dr. Atkins, there's a new diet guru on the scene. You may recall that a few years ago he called you "fat," and suggested your death was more a result of your eating habits than a bad fall. But while this new guru's approach affects millions, he...

President Obama could not have asked for a better birthday gift this week than the full-fledged arrival of The Birthers, best embodied by a raving, bleached-blonde, Soviet Jewish expat lawyer/realtor/dentist named Orly Taitz. (She's a lot like Don King, but without all that credibility.) Her meltdown Monday on MSNBC...

If a state legalizes gay marriage and nobody notices, can gay people still get married? What if four states do it in six weeks?

As more states legalize same-sex marriage, the lack of outrage is striking. Forget the Armageddon we were promised. There's hardly even been a press conference. It...

SARS must be rolling over in its grave.

Along comes swine flu, a second-rate pretender to the SARS throne, and you'd think it was the second coming of the Black Death. Suddenly we are besieged, not by a large number of people who are actually sick, but by a...

February has always been the worst month. It has one holiday devoted to a rodent predicting the weather, and another devoted to reminding single people they have no right to be happy. It's the month where we mark black history with simplistic Hallmark specials and sales on grape soda....