Episode 530: Cacio e Pepe with Kristina Gill
Spilled Milk
Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton
4.6 • 1.4K 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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