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Spilled Milk

Episode 81: Cornbread

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Food, Comedy, Arts

4.61.4K 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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