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Spilled Milk

Episode 735: Puff Pastry

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Arts, Food, Comedy

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 42 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,

0:09.5

eat it all, and you can't have any. And today we are talking about puff pastry. That's right,

0:14.8

this episode was suggested by host Matthew. Have you ever met him? I'm hoping to someday.

0:19.5

He is a real legend. I'll tell you, actually.

0:22.4

Let me tell you this. So I was teaching, well, at the time that we're recording this,

0:26.6

I was teaching last week in California. Oh, wow. I think this is going to be a real story,

0:31.5

not a bit. And I haven't heard it. And just in talking with my students over the course of a week,

0:37.3

I mentioned you a number of times.

0:40.4

And all of my students were like, God, Matthew sounds like such a good friend.

0:46.3

Aw.

0:47.1

I know.

0:47.6

Isn't that sweet?

0:48.1

That's not funny at all.

0:49.3

I don't even know why I brought this up.

0:51.0

Yeah, no, it makes me feel like I'm like Big Bird, like someone from Sesame Street, who's fuzzy and a good friend. Oh, okay. Okay. Like Elmo. Like Elmo, yeah. Yeah. Like Elmo's kind of high strung. Oh, yeah. I get that. Big Bird has a calmer energy. Yeah. More of kind of like a doop-de-do kind of energy.

1:11.2

Although I do remember that time that Big Bird didn't understand how a bus stop worked and

1:16.2

was like standing out there yelling for the bus to stop even though he didn't want to

1:19.9

want to get on the bus.

1:21.4

And then later after it was explained to him how the bus stop works, then he went back to

1:25.3

like flag all the drivers down to apologize.

1:28.3

Oh, what a sweetheart. What an idiot.

1:33.9

Anyway, we're talking about puff pastry today. Yeah. And this was suggested by me because,

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