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Spilled Milk

Episode 438: Spanakopita

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Food, Comedy, Arts

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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0:00.0

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

0:07.8

delicious eat it all and you can't have any. Today we are talking about well wow we're about to get a big agenda point you know out of the way right now when I say this

0:19.9

Spana copita. Yeah Spana copita or do you say Spana Copiapita. Yeah, Spana Copita. Or do you say Spana Copita?

0:25.3

Well, that seems like a classic, like, American way to say it.

0:29.0

So I watched several, well, no, I didn't watch several videos. I watched the same intro to the same video several

0:35.2

times from Dimitra's dishes on YouTube, who's very Greek. And so I rewound the pronunciation part many times that my big question was is it

0:45.2

copita or copada and the answer is it's kind of in between but a little closer to

0:50.4

cope than cop so like Spana copita spana copita yeah I think we got it

0:57.1

I think we are I think I was definitely doing like an American spana cop better yeah no I

1:02.4

think I think for the pronunciation that we just did,

1:04.7

we're getting the key to Athens,

1:06.8

which probably now immediately we're gonna hear from someone

1:08.9

and say, Spanicopata is not from Athens.

1:11.2

Everyone knows it's from, know creed right or hostia or

1:17.1

Lesbos yeah what was the last thing anyway but Lesbos of course yes I was

1:22.2

reading a need a need a I was reading a needle lows book solo which is about like kind of

1:27.4

high at elevated cooking for one and in the in the intro of the book she talks about or maybe in the head note of one of the recipes she talks about going with her partner to Lesbos and like staying in it in run by actual lesbian lesbians and that it was like the greatest thing ever.

1:44.4

Oh that is really really exciting.

1:47.6

Let's go down memory lane.

1:49.0

I don't really, okay so actually no I do have some because this was a favorite of

1:53.2

wife of the show Lori like during her vegetarian years which overlapped a little

1:58.7

bit with when I knew her and so she would make this occasionally and I don't remember it being one of my

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