I'm Matthew and I'm Molly and this is Spilled Milk this show where we cook something delicious

eat it all and you can't have any today we are talking about falafel with a special

guest who is going to pronounce it in the more correct Arabic fashion yeah I am excited

I'm excited for this we've had this episode on the agenda for a long time and we haven't

done it because Molly and I were like we do not know even 10% of what we would need

to know about falafel to do this episode so we brought on an expert we found the right

person and she'll be joining us soon so I was just before we started recording I was

I was telling Molly that I just took a trip to Denver Colorado to meet up with a couple

of friends and see a show at Red Rocks and I did for what was for me I think an impressive

amount of eating while I was there I mean hold on wait I want to remind the listeners

that Matthew for all his enthusiasm for food and all his love for cooking and eating when

we once sat down together and tasted a bunch of apples Matthew started complaining that

he was full after the equivalent of like one half an apple okay everybody so I need you

to know this going in now go ahead Matthew okay yeah because I have a tiny little bird

tummy okay so the the evening I arrived in Denver I first I got an empanada for a snack

from a place called Maria empanada which is very good we had to plant this all out ahead

of time well I'd like written down the names of a couple places in the neighborhood I was

staying and I was like okay this seems promising if I go by that place I will give it a try

and so I walked by Maria empanada on the way to to my Airbnb and got a chicken Chipotle

empanada which is very tasty then let's see then for dinner first dinner I went to a place

to a chain wine bar called postino which was running a brisketta contest and this was not

like a how much brisketta can you eat contest this was a contest where chefs come up with

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