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Slashfood has long been a fan of Momofuku Milk Bar's Crack Pie, and it seems we're in good company.

Anderson Cooper confessed Tuesday during a guest host spot on "Live with Regis and Kelly" that he and his famous mom, Gloria Vanderbilt, can't get enough of Christina Tosi's Crack Pie.

"They have a pie that's called crack pie that is literally crack," Cooper said. "There is crack in that pie because once you have that pie, you can think of nothing else but having more of that crack pie."

Well there's not exactly crack in there. Tosi's recipe calls for butter, heavy cream and sugar. Lots of it.

"I sent it to my mom," Cooper said. "My mom's now addicted to crack -- pie. And uh, yeah, seriously, my teeth are going to fall out. It's like doing crack. After a while of doing it your teeth will fall out."

To which, Kelly Ripa quipped, "crack pie is whack."

To drive home just how much he loves the pie, he brought the studio audience samples on Wednesday's show.

Cooper's also a fan of Milk Bar's Compost cookie. "It's the best cookie I've ever had."

UPDATE: Now you can order Crack Pie and Compost Cookies from Momofuku Milk Bar online.

[Via Serious Eats]

So often here on Slashfood we focus on tasty things to eat that we often forget about the places in the world where the people don't have enough to eat. CNN's Anderson Cooper has been in Africa recently, doing special reports for 60 Minutes and on Sunday night presented a story about Plumpynut. It's a combination of peanut butter, powdered milk, powdered sugar and vitamins that is preventing children in famine-wracked countries from dying of malnutrition. It is cheap to make, doesn't need refrigeration and is so easy to eat that many kids can feed themselves. For all the peanut allergies in this country, doctors who hand out the Plumpynut say that they don't see much, if any incident of allergy in the countries where this product is being used.

With all the reports of dangerous food and agribusiness in this country these days, it's nice to hear a story about how lives are being saved with the distribution of such a simple food.

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