Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend. A podcast for long distance festies everywhere.

I'm Amina Tussau. And I'm Anne Friedman. Every other week we'll be bringing you a special

phone or friend episode between either Anne or me and one of our rad pals.

Oh my god Amina, guess who I talked to this week?

Who would it do talk to this week? So if you have ever made a recipe from the internet,

chances are you have at least perused smitten kitchen at some point.

I mean, I have to say I was kind of awkward for me.

Like I interview people for a living a lot and I was kind of weird because it feels strangely

intimate. Like I read Deb Perlman's recipes all the time. But I was like, oh and now I'm talking

to the human being who is like kind of represented in my kitchen every day.

Did you tell her that we live by the fetus ulcer recipe from Whole Foods that she adapted?

Listen, if I had listed every recipe of hers that I live by, she would have like instantly

written me off as a weird fan. But the fetus ulcer and so important to us.

I felt it was more important to keep the focus on recipes important to her,

but maybe we should share with everyone that fetus ulcer recipe because it is a service to humanity.

Game changer. Yeah. Also, yeah, you're, I mean the pressure of that. It's like, I feel like usually

we do phone friends with like people that are like buddies and pals of ours, but you know,

you're like in Martha Stewart territory. I mean, we're like pseudo internet, we're not like real

friends. We're like internet, like low level internet friends enough that like I could get in touch

with her easily, but not like, oh, I chat to you all the time about like, what do you do with all

the extra food if you test recipes? And yeah, so many food carrier secrets revealed.

Oh, I can't wait to hear this. It's gonna be amazing.

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