Cooking with Coca-Cola - Chocolate Coca-Cola Cake

What better way to finish our Cooking with Coca-Cola video series than with a classic Southern desert, Chocolate Coca-Cola Cake.  Chef Linton Hopkins demonstrates this recipe that he serves at Holeman & Finch.  Having been there the day it was filmed, I can tell you it was delicious. Download Coca-Cola Cake Recipe, Download Coca-Cola Cake Icing recipe.

I would like to thank Chef Hopkins and Greg Best of Holeman & Finch for donating their time and expertise for these videos.  Chef Hopkins is a former Iron Chef America contestant and has been nominated for James Beard Award and Greg Best has been cited as one of the best Mixologist in America.  We were privileged to work with them.  I hope that everyone has enjoyed watching the videos and that you have the opportunity to try some of these recipes yourself.

Spotlight on the World of Coca-Cola - Contour Bottle Video

The Milestones of Refreshment gallery at the World of Coke is divided into ten different innovations or milestones in the Company's history.  Each of these sections has a video introduction.  For this weeks Spotlight on the World of Coke, I am posting the video that is used for the gallery on the introduction of the contour bottle.  The video does a great job summarizing the reasons and design of the bottle.

Cooperage Facility at Our Atlanta Headquarters

"Cooperage" is one of those words that most people would have trouble defining. What it refers to is the manufacturing of barrels. Back in the 1920s, the Headquarters of The Coca-Cola Company actually resided of the same piece of property that we occupy today, but in that earlier period, syrup manufacturing took place in the same complex that housed our administrative offices. As part of that production process, the syrup was packaged in oak barrels and distributed to our bottlers throughout the United States.

Because there was a constant need for a steady supply of these oak barrels, a group of employees, called coopers, assembled the barrels on site. The photographs below show elements of  the barrel construction in 1924.

Barrels used for Coca-Cola were stained red to differentiate them from whiskey barrels, and for many years, the Company had a sales publication called The Red Barrel dedicated to the soda fountain business.

 

 

Cooking With Coca-Cola - Coca-Cola Manhattan

In this weeks Cooking With Coke video, Holeman & Finch Mixologist Greg Best does a regional twist on the classic Manhattan.  In honor of Coca-Cola's Atlanta roots and the city's Resurgens slogan, he created a Coca-Cola Resurgens.  Enjoy!