The Latest Video and How We Made It

Since posting the first video “How to Clone a Big Mac” on YouTube in September of 2007, we’ve made several more “How to Clone” videos based on recipes in my cookbooks, with a total of over 2.3 million views on the channel. And that’s just on YouTube. On Yahoo Video the “How to Clone a Twinkie” vid was [...]

From Zero to Ten in 23 Years

It took six years from the day I started writing the first book, Top Secret Recipes, for it to land on bookstores shelves.

Not having a formal culinary education made the process of writing the book especially tedious since I had to learn the science of cooking and figure out how to adapt what I had [...]

The Second Clone Recipe I Tried

Several years went by before I saw my next clone recipe. In 1987 the second clone recipe I tried showed up in my mailbox in the form of a chain letter. At the time, these snail mail chain letters were similar to the chain letter spam that we get in our e-mail boxes today: Someone [...]

The First Clone Recipe I Tried

My first encounter with a clone recipe was in college. I was a freshman, and as is the case with most first-year college students, I had very little money. This was an unfortunate situation for many reasons, but especially because living right down the hall of my dormitory was a group of girls who really [...]

Candy Bars & Magic Tricks

At the age of 12 I was consumed with secrets and sweets.

It was then that I saw the price of candy bars increasing from 15 cents to 20 cents each. As a true candy lover – I was your typical kid, after all — this 25 percent increase in price was devastating. Each [...]

Book on the Town

When my latest book came out in November I took it on a tour of Las Vegas. We had a great time and shared many tender moments. I took photos along the way and posted them all in a series of Tweets on Twitter.

Here is our complete album of sweet memories from that day… 

Cool Bathroom, Hot Chicken, Fresh Bacon & Deuce Bigalow

Back out to tour a few more cities with the new book, I stayed at the Hermitage Hotel in Nashville. Great hotel. And there’s this very cool retro bathroom downstairs, across from the Capitall Grill restaurant.

I don’t usually take pictures of bathrooms. This would be the first.

According to this plaque there have been [...]

The Philly Cheesesteak Crawl

I was in Philadelphia for an appearance at  FOX 29 in Philadelphia today. Here’s a shot from the end of the show after Mike Jerrick (formerly on Morning Show with Mike & Juliet) ate a couple things from the book that are packed with sugar. He doesn’t usually eat sugar.

Look at him go — he’s doing the [...]

Chicago: Hot Dogs, Pizza & Graffiti

How cold is it in Chicago during the holidays? It was 2 degrees when I got there in December, and that’s farenheit! I totally did not pack for such crazy cold so I layered 4 shirts over another 4 shirts with another shirt on top, and went hunting for chow.

Good thing I could keep warm [...]

A Book Tour: Hits and Misses

Okay, here we go again.

Although this is the 9th time I’ve set out on a multi-city promotional tour with a new book, I still haven’t figured out how to pack right. But who cares? You can always buy a scarf here and a hat there when you find out that temps will plunge [...]