Episode 81: Cornbread
Spilled Milk
Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2012
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | They're here nor there. |
| 0:01.7 | Pay no mind. |
| 0:02.7 | Hey, so, you know, I've always been kind of confused on this like Northern |
| 0:06.5 | versus Southern Cornbread thing. |
| 0:08.9 | I don't think it's as like bright a dividing line |
| 0:12.2 | as it's sometimes made out to be but but they're |
| 0:15.3 | definitely identifiable styles is the northern one the one with sugar yeah |
| 0:20.9 | and I feel like that's that's a lot more common here in the |
| 0:23.3 | northwest. Is that like Yankee cornbread? Yeah like a thick |
| 0:27.8 | cornbread. It's sweet, it's cakey, it's good with all kinds of stuff. |
| 0:33.6 | Okay. |
| 0:34.0 | And then Southern cornbread is not sweet at all. |
| 0:37.4 | Like the recipe that I made for Southern cornbread |
| 0:40.2 | today has no added sugar at all. |
| 0:42.3 | And is, I mean mean it's really what's the word I'm |
| 0:46.2 | looking for austere so is it kind of all about the cornmeal flavor it's all |
| 0:50.7 | about the cornmeal flavor and so if we're making southern cornbread it's important I think to choose a high quality cornmeal and we should talk about how to choose a high quality cornmeal. |
| 1:00.1 | Wow, tell me about it. How do you choose a high quality quality corn meal let's start the show off with just five minutes of me talking about stuff. |
| 1:06.4 | Yeah, let's do my favorite shows always start that way. Okay, well I'm in order to talk about quality cornmeal, I need to make a fairly embarrassing admission, |
| 1:15.3 | which is that until recently and still occasionally I order cornmeal online to be sent to me from the Northeast. |
| 1:24.3 | That is amazing. |
| 1:25.6 | You, I know that sometimes we make fun of people, like I think on the last episode we |
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