On February 11, 2011, Ira Glass said on his PRI radio show, This American Life, that his staffers had found a recipe in "Everett Beal's Recipe Book", reproduced in the February 28, 1979 issue of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, that they believed was either Pemberton's original formula for Coca-Cola or a version that he made either before or after the product hit the market in 1886. The formula basically matched the one found in Pemberton's diary.Katie Rogers, "'This American Life' bursts Coca-Cola's bubble: What's in that original recipe, anyway?", The Washington Post BlogPost, February 15, 2011. Retrieved February 16, 2011.Brett Michael Dykes, "Did NPR's 'This American Life' discover Coke's secret formula?", The Lookout, Yahoo! News, February 15, 2011.David W. Freeman, "'This American Life' Reveals Coca-Cola's Secret Recipe (Full Ingredient List)", CBS News Healthwatch blogs, February 15, 2011. Coca-Cola archivist Phil Mooney acknowledged that the recipe "could be a precursor" to the formula used in the original 1886 product, but emphasized that Pemberton's original formula is not the same as the one used in the modern product.The Recipe , This American Life.
On February 11, 2011, Ira Glass said on, his PRI radio show, This Am,erican Life, that his staffers had found a recipe in "Everett Beal's Recipe Book", reproduced in the February 28, 1979 issue of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, that they believed was either Pemberton's original formula for Coca-Cola or a version that he made either before or after the product hit the market in 1886. The formula basically matched the one found in Pemberton's diary.Katie Rogers, "'This American Life' bursts Coca-Cola's bubble: What's in that original recipe, anyway?", The Washington Post BlogPost, February 15, 2011. Retrieved February 16, 2,011.Brett Michael Dykes, "Did NPR's 'This American Life' discover Coke's secret formula?", The Lookout, Yahoo! News, February 15, 2011.David W. Freeman, "'This American Life' Reveals Coca-Cola's Secret Recipe (Full Ingredient List)", CBS News Healthwatch blogs, February 15 2011. Coca-Cola archivist Phil Mooney ackn,owledged that the recipe "could be a precursor" to the formula used in the original 1886 product, but emphasized that Pemberton's original formula is not the same as the one used in the mod,ern product.The Recipe , This American Life.