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Spilled Milk

Episode 530: Cacio e Pepe with Kristina Gill

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Food, Comedy, Arts

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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0:00.0

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

0:09.0

eat it all and and sometimes record in our closets today we are talking about caucho

0:14.5

a pepe did I say it right I think I mean you said it like as well or better than I do

0:20.2

so I think we're both doing it badly but I think I think I like separated the words much

0:25.5

more than they would be separated in Italian maybe got joy pepe yeah I think that's probably

0:31.4

it nailed it all of my like various repertoire of characters that I I can do for my family

0:38.6

all at a certain point become Italian sure like yeah can you do can you do like Jack Nicholson

0:44.8

but Italian well not on purpose he just becomes Italian anyway okay so yeah today we are

0:53.1

talking about catch a pepe and we should start by defining this right let's start by defining

0:57.8

it I mean I think our listeners know what this is the dish is very trendy slash was recently

1:03.6

very trendy when does something stop being trendy and does someone come along and like ring

1:08.3

a bell and say like here lies catch a pepe yeah it's a very long ceremony yet they bury

1:14.3

some pasta there's there's a back to a spaghetti trick yeah for sure yeah like you know

1:21.2

just in the Italian tradition there's a there's a bagpipe player yep anyway so okay so this is a

1:28.0

pasta dish it is typically Roman it has been made in Rome in the area of Rome actually for not

1:34.4

as long as you might think and we'll get to that in a second oh so maybe like since like 2013

1:42.1

it consists of so the pasta you use is either spaghetti or tonneurally tonneurally being a long

1:49.9

noodle but that is square in cross-section rather than circular two questions yeah number one

1:56.0

what is spaghetti number two is tonneurally different from spaghetti alla chitara oh my gosh okay if

2:02.4

you're in the Wikipedia entry for catch a pepe and you click on tonneurally it takes you to the

2:08.9

chitara oh I feel so smart okay anyway no I didn't do that this is like right all right off the

2:15.0

dome here anyway so yeah it's it's one of those two long skinny noodles and it is sauce I'm making

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