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Spilled Milk

Episode 13: Rhubarb

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Arts, Food, Comedy

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2010

⏱️ 15 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm Matthew and I'm Matthew and I'm Molly and this is spilled milk the show where we cook something delicious

0:10.5

eat it all and you can't have any. And today we are talking about

0:14.4

rhubarb. One of my favorite dangerous vegetables or is it a fruit or a

0:18.8

vegetable? We're gonna get to that later. Yeah and is it dangerous? It is a little dangerous, but I think it's only

0:24.0

the leaf that's dangerous. And we'll get to that later too. Okay, good. Yeah. But

0:27.8

anyway, we wanted to celebrate rhubarb today because at least here in

0:31.4

Seattle, it is the peak of rhubarb season and we are we

0:34.9

are eating a lot of it to say the least. Yes pounds pounds and pounds. Yeah yeah and

0:40.0

we want to celebrate it with you. Yes.

0:43.0

And we also understand that there may be some of you out there who maybe don't know how to ride the

0:48.8

wild rhubarb stallion.

0:51.0

So to speak. you know what to do you and because it is a it's a wild crazy thing it's very tart if you don't you know if you

0:59.7

don't know what to do with it yeah but I mean there are so there are so many good things in cooking that are very tart, but absolutely

1:05.0

necessary.

1:06.0

Like, you know, you wouldn't throw out limes because they're tart.

1:08.8

That's true.

1:09.8

Good point, good point.

1:10.8

Yeah, I wouldn't, you know, I wouldn't kick rhubarb out of the bed because it's

1:13.1

tart that's what it is and we just need to learn how to tame it. I wouldn't

1:16.0

cook anything out of the bed that that is known as a wild stallion.

1:18.9

Or that's tart. I wouldn't cook any tart out of the bed. That's right. Anyway, we're going to be talking about food at some point here.

1:28.0

And I hope you'll stick with us for that. What is rhubarb? I mean, is it a fruit? Is it a vegetable? What the heck is it?

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