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Spilled Milk

Episode 88: Bitter Greens

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Arts, Food, Comedy

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2013

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm Matthew and I'm Molly and this is spilled milk the show where we cook something

0:10.0

delicious eat it all and you can't have any. Today we are talking about bitter greens.

0:16.5

It's kind of a grown-up topic, don't you think?

0:18.6

It is.

0:19.3

I feel like, well, all those kids out there

0:21.8

who like our show. I don like our show I don't know I don't know how do you feel about bitter

0:25.5

greens kids I don't hear them talking about this part okay

0:29.4

yeah but I mean sometimes like we let our inner child come out on the show, yeah, sometimes.

0:37.0

But today I feel like, you know, we're bringing out the, it's spilled milk after milk after hours yeah we are eating all kinds of things

0:45.3

that I did not like until I was an adult yeah I don't think I would have

0:49.2

necessarily balked at these things as a kid but I don't remember them ever coming up.

0:55.0

Yeah, I remember thinking the words were weird like Radecio and Endive which my father

1:01.5

alternated between calling Endive and on-dieve. I was going to ask

1:05.0

you about that, like how do you say it? Yeah, I say Endive, what about you? I say Endive also.

1:10.3

And there's curly Endive. Oh, we'll get into this in a minute right yes

1:14.5

when we say bitter greens what greens are we talking about so the things that come

1:20.3

to mind first for me are Riddickio and Endive also known as

1:25.1

on d'Eve and for me those plus escrowel I cook pretty often. Although it's

1:30.9

it's funny I don't think of escrow as being bitter. It's certainly not bitter in its raw state. Do you think it is?

1:37.0

I think it is a little bit. I certainly prefer to eat it cooked and I think that does bring out the bitterness some I honestly I think if you

1:43.9

did a blind tasting of escrow and Riddicoo they are they taste almost the same

1:48.5

really I really think so I guess we should have done that have any around here did you cook

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