Episode 13: Rhubarb
Spilled Milk
Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton
4.6 • 1.5K 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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