Making Jam

June 1st, 2011
11:15 AM ET

Eliot Spitzer loves making jam

Eatocracy has a well-documented fondness of In The Arena host and former New York State governor Eliot Spitzer's devotion to the culinary offerings of the CNN Cafe. We were simply gobsmacked to find out that he's something of an expert jam maker as well.

Says Spitzer of the gratifying "ping" of a perfectly sealed jar lid, "I remember the first time we did it, we set them out on the table, Silda said they have to cool. Then they started, 'click click click, pop pop pop'. There's a feeling of great joy when you know that that the seal has worked has worked and you now have a completed project."

Also - he, like colleague Anderson Cooper, will eat the exact same meal for months on end. Watch the video to see what's on the (incredibly unvarying) menu.

Read - Anderson Cooper's corny lunch ritual and Things We Love: Pimento cheese, meat shirts and Eliot Spitzer

Watch - In the Arena weekdays at 8 p.m. EDT