Episode 12: Rice Balls
Spilled Milk
Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2010
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Spilled milk is brought to you by Surletab, which sells everything you need to cook the recipes we talk |
| 0:04.8 | about on this show. |
| 0:06.4 | With over 70 locations nationwide and online at surletab.com. |
| 0:11.2 | Surletab, the art and soul of cooking. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Molly, and I'm Matthew. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Matthew. And this is spilled milk the show where we cook something |
| 0:26.1 | delicious eat it all and you can't have any and today we are going to be talking |
| 0:30.2 | about rice balls or in Japanese, oh nigiri. |
| 0:33.4 | Good pronunciation. |
| 0:34.4 | I mean, I wouldn't know good pronunciation from bad pronunciation, |
| 0:37.0 | but that was impressive. |
| 0:37.9 | I think good pronunciation in a foreign language all comes down to the face you make |
| 0:41.3 | when you're saying it, like if you can make a convincing face, |
| 0:44.3 | like you're really thinking hard, |
| 0:45.5 | then people think you have good pronunciation. |
| 0:47.4 | I mean, people who don't actually speak the language. |
| 0:49.8 | I'll think about that. |
| 0:50.8 | I'll think about spitting rice onto the microphone. Yeah I have to say well |
| 0:56.0 | Matthew said that a piece of rice just came from flying out of his mouth. Anyway |
| 1:00.5 | yeah that's a traditional way to eat them. So Matthew, one reason why we thought to to talk about rice balls today is that you are fresh off a trip to Japan, are you not? I am fresh off the boat. |
| 1:10.0 | And did you eat lots of rice balls there? I ate many, many rice balls. |
| 1:13.8 | Wow, I'm so glad that you're on the show today. |
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