Spilled Milk — Ham

This is a wall of prosciutto. (Of course, it’s at La Quercia.)

You probably don’t think of prosciutto as ham. However, loosely categorized to make a point? Prosciutto is a form of ham.

Our friends Matthew and Molly are fond of loosely categorizing details to make us laugh. That’s part of their genius.

You might know them first as the authors of Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father’s Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater (Matthew) and A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table (Molly). They also write blogs: Roots and Grubs (Matthew) and Orangette (Molly). If you are interested in food, and food writing, you know these two. (Or you should.)

However, it’s possible that Spilled Milk is their best work yet.

Spilled Milk is this podcast that Matthew and Molly do together, a riffing, laughing session on one particular food each time, plus a recipe. I like to cook while listening to them. The only danger, however, is that I often stop paying attention to the food to laugh so hard I have to bend over. Matthew and Molly, it’s your fault that pork chop burned.

Seriously, this is a show you don’t want to miss. Episode 10: ham.

“Here at Spilled Milk, our Easter party is still raging, because we can’t stop eating ham. Dry-cured, wet-cured, we don’t care: we love and investigate them all, with stops in Spain, the mall, and the Middle Ages. Recipe: Greens with ham and cheesy grits.”

Go on over and listen to Matthew and Molly talk about ham.  You’ll be hooked.  You’ll be back for more.