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…