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check out. A better web starts with your website. I'm Matthew. I'm Matthew. I'm Molly and this is spilled milk the show where we cook something delicious, eat it all and you can't have any.

Today we are talking about celery. The vegetable that everybody

forgets. Yeah yeah don't hang up don't hang up this is going to be an okay

show. It is. Celery is delicious. I mean not good but okay. Yeah. Um, celery is delicious and one of the

reasons I'm excited to do this episode is that I think we we cook with

celery, you know, we throw it in out of kind of a sense of obligation because you know it goes with

onions and carrots and whatever in your soup without realizing that celery

actually has quite a strong flavor. It does in fact I have read someone saying something to the effect of the right amount of celery to put in your soup is just the amount that sort of wafts in when you wave a stock of celery over the pot.

Is this the same person who said the thing about the martini,

that like, you know, whisper of vermouth, they're like, you know...

I'm not sure. Was there somebody who said that about a martini?

Oh, this is like a thing people say or like used to say about martini's when like the fashion was like, you know, a martini should be super, super dry that like, you know, you should just pass the bottle of gin like near the martini

glass. I mean the bottle of vermined.

Whatever it's fine. Yeah I'm sure it was probably that same person. I've been I've been hitting a bottle of vermouth pretty hard this morning.

Did you eat celery as a kid and in what form?

I definitely ate celery and peanut butter when I was a kid.

I would eat just celery sticks like like you would eat carrots. and peanut I don't know about most people in general, but I think most of us come into contact with celery

most often through like the crudite platter.

Yeah, totally.

You know, like we dip it in ranch dressing

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