Spanakopita and Pinecones? with Amy Sedaris | Michael Symon makes a classic greek dish

This one goes off the rails immediately — in the best possible way.Carla kicks off the episode talking about the post-Thanksgiving lull, and before she can even finish the sentence, Michael introduces national treasure Amy Sedaris, who proceeds to blow up the energy in the kitchen.
What follows is a high-speed collision of Greek identity debates, hairy menopause jokes, and one of the funniest crafting segments ever filmed. While Michael quietly tries to demonstrate his mom’s beloved Spanakopita — complete with spinach sauté tricks, feta preferences, pine nuts, dill, scallions, butter layering, phyllo thickness, and folding technique — Amy and Clinton spiral into commentary about glue, hemorrhoid cream tubes, googly eyes, and pine-cone hat engineering.
Amy reveals her five-fragrance scent routine, her hatred of lima beans, her love of fairy dish soap, her allergy to shellfish (which she jokes about aggressively), and the fact that she once sold spanakopita in North Carolina. We also get a round of Chew It or Screw It, fan mail, and a particularly chaotic Fan Giveaway where Amy signs her pine-cone gnome for the winner.
Michael’s Spanakopita finally emerges golden from the oven, everyone eats, laughs, and we close with the usual kitchen anarchy.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – Cold open: “Baking shit” + intro
01:00 – Carla sets the holiday mood
01:20 – Michael introduces Amy Sedaris
01:45 – Amy arrives; Greek jokes begin
03:00 – Clinton’s three reasons Amy lives rent-free in his head
05:00 – Spanakopita filling: spinach, feta, herbs, pine nuts
07:00 – Phyllo talk: thickness, buttering, folding triangles
08:45 – Freezing tips from Michael’s mom & yaya
10:15 – Carla starts Chew It or Screw It
12:00 – Edible glitter, cauliflower rice, fairies, scents
15:00 – Crafting pine-cone gnomes
17:30 – Glue malfunctions, googly eye chaos
19:30 – Eyebrows, noses, and Clinton’s Crack Corner
23:00 – Fan Giveaway — winner Susan A. (Indiana)
25:00 – Tasting Michael’s spanakopita
27:00 – Fan Mail Questions
32:00 – Amy’s upcoming projects
33:00 – Outro + sponsor thanks

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Wow, look how pretty that looks. And then I just put them on a baking sheet. We bake baking [ __ ] Baking [ __ ] We all heard it. There you go. Right on the old baking [ __ ] [Music] This is going to change your life. Pull up a chair. The kitchen is open. Oh, it’s so good with Clinton Kelly, Carla Hall, and Michael Simon. You better shut your face. Let’s dig in. This is so much fun. [Music] Hey y’all. Welcome back to Chewed Up. I’m Carl Hall and I’m here with my mischievous kitchen partners Clinton Kelly and Michael Simon. So, it’s December 8th. Thanksgiving is already a distant memory. The leftovers are long gone and hopefully the results of the leftovers. You finally loosened up your pants and somehow Christmas still feels far away even though it’s not. Um, that is the sweet spot on the holiday calendar, the calm before the carolling. It’s time to relax, refresh, and maybe remind yourself what vegetables taste like because you know you’ve been eating a lot of carbs, but we’re still keeping a little sparkle in the mix. And speaking of sparkle, Michael. Yes. Who’s joining us? Oh, we have the lovely, the talented, the funny, does it all. We today we gift you with a little bit of Amy. Amy, thank you. We are so happy you’re here. We are so excited. I know you got to go down the line. I know. I know. I know. Okay. Nice to see you all. Good to see you, too. Yes. This is fun. We’re intimate on YouTube. Yeah, I like that. More of intimate. Crappy and cooking should be intimate, right? Exactly. Right. It’s actually fun, too, because we just pop over random people’s apartments and take them over for a couple days. Isn’t that fun? Bed bugs. Take the light bulbs, especially the old kind. Oh my god, that’s Yeah, trust me. Amy Sedar, you are a national treasure. You’re a comedic genius. I’m I’m not even I’m not even saying that lightly. I think that you are one of the most hilarious people in modern American history. I’m not even take it in. Yeah, I I just I’m trying to maintain my cool here, but you’re doing such a good job. Too late. You’re in front of pine cones. I’m in front of pine cones. But you live in my head rent free. And I’m going to tell you three different ways you live in my head rent free. One, as Jerry Blank with the with the line that I say all the time, uh, do you want to come over to my crib after school and I’ll make your pinky all stinky. I’ll make your pinky all stinky. Stinky. I was supposed to get alternates of that line and I didn’t. No. Coar and Danella were pretty mad at me. Oh, they were. But are you kidding? It’s a I quote once a week. The other thing I quote all the time is from At Home with Amy Sedaris. One of the best the funniest shows ever. Um uh it’s Friday night. Oh yeah. I’m going to get drunk. I’m going to get laid. I’m going to be late on Monday. Monday show today. Oh my. And the third thing is when I’m in a bad mood and this is like I just can’t get out of a funk. My husband will say go read Amy Sedaris’s book. You’re gay. Can you believe it? I know. Shocking. Oh, I got to go. Your book, um, I like you, hospitality, the influence. There is a a sequence where you’re putting on panty hoes. Oh, yeah. It is. It will take me out of any bad mood that I’ve ever been in. I look at this. I look at Amy putting on her panty hose and it will che me right up. You know, I do, of course, cuz all the games. Anyway, so we’re so glad that you’re here. I’m a huge fan. And we’re all Thank you so much. That’s nice of you to say. And you’re you’re Greek. And I’m I sure amakreek. My dad was Greek. Yes. So that counts. If my mom’s Greek, it wouldn’t count. See, my mom’s Greek. So I Wait, I’m not Greek. Oh my god. Together you make one. You got to be father. God. Yeah. Cuz my mom’s bay name is Mavas. Mavas, you know. So my name’s Simon. Obviously. No one thinks I’m Greek, but here I am Greek. Right. You look Greek to me. I had to thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That would make my mother very happy. because he looks just like his mother. I do. Yeah, he does. It really attracts him. Yeah. I mean, she doesn’t have a goatee and beard and stuff, but other than Oh, come on. I mean, she she doesn’t rec one pretty quick. But eat like that overnight. Yeah. Sideburn. We’re literally after menopause becoming men. Oh, yes. Like my mother’s like, “Do I have to wear this hat?” Like, girl, no. Not out. My mustache looks like yours. And the men look like little, you know, raisin cookies. I say, “Yeah.” a little puffy and yeah, Michael, what are you making for when they our Greekness I’m making spicopita, my favorite. Um, so we I had some spinach. I just I saute it. I take fresh spinach and I I saute it. A little bit of salt because then you don’t have there’s not the moisture problem. You don’t have to ring it out as much. You know, I hate ringing it out. It takes forever, right? Yeah, it really is. That goes in the bowl. Okay. And then I have What is How many is that? How many How much is that? Fistful. your fist. A cup. A cup. Three pounds. Cooked. Yeah, it’s a cooked cup, which literally it probably was two pounds. Yeah, that’s this one. Uh, feta. Okay. Do you have a favorite feta? Um, I mean I like there’s so there’s the French, the Bulgarian. I Maybe it’s because I’m a Greek. I like the Greek feta. I think it’s a little saltier, a little less creamy, but I like the flavor better. Yep. Same here. Um, pine nuts. Oh, you put pine nuts in. This is Yeah, this is my Yaya’s restaurant. I don’t think does it like good at first. Um, I don’t, but I mean I love a crunch. Um, and yeah, you toasted them and she puts tons of dill. Yeah, me too. Which I think is this is that’s the secret ingredient in a lot of dill. Yeah, I put a little And when you chop your dill, you use a big old knife or do you use a cutting scissor? I use a big old knife for, you know, just the chef in me, I guess. Now, this is something my put in, but I like the addition of scallion. I do. I had a lot of sc I sauté them first. Oh, see I like the little raw crunch in there. Mhm. And I put in one egg. Oh, it’s always about the egg. Greeks always say, “How many eggs did you use?” They’re like, “Geez, I used five for a cup of spinach.” Well, no, I my I use more spinach than that, but I I use, you know, five eggs. All right. No, it needs it needs it. And then I put some garlic in when I saute the spinach also. See, I never use garlic in my spicy coconut. Okay. Well, we’ll see recipe. Yeah, I’m not going to. And I don’t like I seasoned the spinach when I sauteed it with a little bit of salt, but I watched the salt because of the feta. Because of the feta, right? All right. We mix that up. And then I have the fileo here. And look, it’s like it’s like diamonds. I know. It really is. Well, the other thing is too is I’m sure you know this like like in like I grew up in Cleveland, but in Cleveland and New York, you could find fresh feta. In a lot of the country, it’s frozen and that stuff’s just harder to work with. It’s almost like a cheat code with the fresh stuff. That’s right. I have to get backup boxes because sometimes it’s been there, especially Christies, you know, some are a little old, you know, they don’t rotate it. Yeah, bad. Well, I guess we lost that sponsor. Thank everyone’s favorite. They’re under management now. So, and you can get it in half sheets, which I like. It does. And like, but I just do this. But the other thing is too is I like to find if you could find the number two yes thickness it’s just a little bit easier to work with. Right. And then I do the stack like so. And you can put that near a moist towel to keep it moist, you know. Oh my goodness. There you have it. Over top. And then the other important thing and this is the thing I learned from my mother and my yaya is do not skip on any but you have to butter at every fold or your spanicopita will not be as good as your It’s true. It’s all about the butter. Do you ever add a little alo to your butter? I don’t. Yeah, I I’ve been doing it and it’s really nice on top, you know. Yep. So I you know butter. Mhm. Fold. Oh. Oh, you’re gonna do triangles. But I do the triangles. Well, that’s time consuming. I used to sell them in North Carolina. I’d make triangles bonicopa and sell them. So, you do yours like baklava? Like on the pie sheet? Like on the pie? I don’t make uh I never made baklava. My mom made it so none of us liked it anymore, but I I wish I had a recipe. I wish, you know, I’d learned how to make it. Could you know what? Before you leave today, I’m going to get your address. Okay. And I’m Cuz it’s 50. What? I’m going to send you my mom’s baklava. Would you? Oh, yeah. She makes it by the vat and freezes it. And I will send you some. It’s the best. I know. Marissa will I promise you I will it to you. It is so good. And if you want to send it to us, too. I’ve sent it to you before, Carla. So, fold. Yeah. More butter. More butter. Yep. Yes. Fold. Wow. Butter. I’m going have to watch this recipe to remember this folding. Fold it up. And then you just keep going till you get to the end like little footballs. Yeah. Paper footballs. Wow. Look how pretty that looks. And then I just put them on a baking [ __ ] We bake. Baking [ __ ] Baking [ __ ] We all heard it. There you go. Right on the old baking [ __ ] And then butter on top on the tray. And I’m just going to keep rocking these out as you guys craft. And then quick question before we move over. Do you put yours in the freezer for a second before you bake or do you go straight to the oven? So if I’m serving them, I just go straight to the oven. But the great thing about these and what my mother and Yaya always did is pre-h holidays they would make hundreds and freeze them and then when guests came over kind of every day they bake them as they needed them. Perfect. You know, so like anything in fileo freezes good raw like this or like baklava freezes good baked. Yes. So you could get way ahead, freeze it and it holds awesome. Oh, okay. I don’t freeze a lot of food. You know what I mean? No. Me neither. I don’t This is This is a good one. Yeah. Yeah. uh splenicopia the raviolis also if you make them ahead of time you could freeze them forever which is a great trick too yeah late night snacks yep well Amy we’re gonna play a little game before we get to the crafting we’re going to play a little game called chew it or screw it in this case chew it is good screw it is no okay never mind where you are in your life that’s right okay call it duck it or [ __ ] it but that’s Oh yeah ratings all All right, this is chew it or screw it. Amy Sedaris edition. All right. Um, unexpected guests. Oh, screw it. Okay, girl. Come on. Talk about it. Screw it. 100%. With golf clubs. Yeah. No. Golf. No. They show up with a No. Oh, that takes things over the top. Oh. Are you planking like a blanket in my house? No. Um, marishino cherries. Oh, yes. Screw it or what? Chew it. Chew it. Chew it. Chew it. Yes. And do you uh tie the stems with your tongue inside? I can’t do that. I I can’t do it. But I have them I have them in my refrigerator all the time with the stems. Smearina cherries. Yeah. I don’t like the black ones or like healthy cherries. Those chemical cherries. Yeah. I like the chemical ones. Um edible glitter. No. Uh-uh. Screw it. Have you had that edible glitter like in syrup? I’m not going to. No. No. I don’t want I don’t want it in my mouth. You can get glitter along but Tim I’m just kidding. Okay. Um cauliflower rice. Um I’ve used I’ve done it but it’s a I’m just going to say screw it. But I mean I’ve had it and I liked it but I’m going to say screw it. Okay. Where we’re where Okay. Great. I love it that you’re only chewing on marishino cherries. Um all right. Fairies. Oh yeah. Yeah. I’ll take it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean why don’t you look at Clinton? Yeah. I have never been appreciated in all my life. Love a fairy. Love a fairy. Yes. Yay. All right. And I use fairy dish soap that comes from Ireland. Oh, yes. Smells really nice. Yeah. Yes. And by the way, y’all can’t smell Amy, but she smells so good. What are you? I mix five things. I do everything Rupaul says not to do, and I do five different fragrances. So, and I layer it. Oh. Oh, go on. Yeah. Well, I use a come on incense. And then I top it with um a rose puli. The word pichuli scares people. Not me. Scares Clinton. Something called sugar water that comes from the company. And then a little splash of Italian pichuli and a splash of regular vanilla. Not cooking vanilla, but Profuma makes it. I don’t You actually should sell that because it’s a real I think once you bottle it and they add alcohol to preserve, it’s not going to smell the same. Oh, you’re right. So then you do like this. 1 2 3 4 5. Yeah, I did. Oh, no. I just Yeah. have it down. You just can’t. Yeah, it’s Yeah, that’s that’s quite an That’s a commitment. That’s a commitment to scent. Yeah, that’s good for you. So, you don’t It’s paid off cuz we don’t talk. I know. But come to Garson’s my base. The a is it agon? Is that how you pronounce it? Avon. Yeah, that um is the base. Come to Garson or it smells like a church. That’s why people confess to me. True. They tell me anything and I’m like it must be that I smell like a church. Yeah. You know, it’s something familiar, but they they haven’t been there in a while, so it still seems really familiar. Put it on. Screw it. Screw it. Screw it. All right. 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You must be 21 or over, and please enjoy responsibly. [Music] All right, so you’re What are we making today? We’re making pine cone gnomes. Okay. Crafts are [ __ ] nobody wants. Nobody wants it unless it has a purpose. I Well, this you could. It’s an ornament. It’s an ornament. You That’s a purpose. You could hang it from a tree. Okay. Okay. I like the way you just gently grab that. Okay. No, no, no. You’re right. I take it back. So, you Let’s talk about crafting, right? Cuz I feel like you and I might have similar feelings about crafting because I got known for crafting on the chew. You’re known for crafting for for You’ve written books about it. That’s right. And done TV shows about crafting. So, what are your real thoughts about crafts? I think it has to have a purpose because nobody wants stuff just to sit around and catch dust, you know, or or gift wise. Nobody I mean I know you said, “Yeah, but I mean I I I love a I love a gnome. I Carla likes.” So this is for you, Carla. All right. Do Do you want to at least try to make one? Absolutely. Because um because the giveaway today, we were thinking of like because you’re so famous for your crafts, like we could give away the craft that you made and that would be like a Well, this is a collector’s item. Ask any squirrel. Oh, what’s that? Fabric glue. Oh, I like it in a two. Yeah. Or do you want to use But if you couldn’t read, you would think that that’s a hand cream. 100. Yeah. Or a hemorrhoid cream. Yeah. Yeah. That’s where I was going. That’s where we are. Right before you start, I’m going to put these in the oven at 400° till they’re golden brown. Fantastic. And then they’ll be ready when you’re done making your What’s the cooking time on a 400 banana? You know, I’m going to say it’s going to take 15ish minutes, but like I always I look at them and when they’re golden I pull them. That’s okay. But like I start looking at 10 to 12. Okay, great. All right. Do you want Do you have any interest in making a Yeah. So, what we do is you pick your you you know, it’s kind of like really a triangle. It looks like a cape. Yeah. Then you take hemorrhoid cream and you put it on the edges on this edge here. Yeah. Okay. Is there overhead camera? No. Can they see? Yeah, there is one. Is that Oh, I love overhead camera. Okay. Oh, I like the point on this, too. This was fancy. We’re really cheap with the water, but we have overhead cameras. Yeah. All right. Okay. All right. And then, so we’re making a little cone shaped hat with glue. Okay. Oh, look at that. Look. Don’t worry. Oh, yeah. I hate to leave that like that, but don’t worry about it. Okay. So, wait a second. How’d you roll it? I just rolled it toward the glue. Towards the glue. So, you you you put a a bead of glue a bead down the side and then roll toward And now you’ve got your conicle hat. Okay. Your gnome hat. And then uh you need a pine cone. Take a pine cone like this. Perfect one. Now, do you want the point up? I guess so. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you want the point to go in the hat. Shove it in the hat. Shove it in the hat. But you’re going to have to glue it on there. So, oh, Michael wants in on this. Use the super glue. Don’t get any on me. You have to glue it on the pine cone. It’s better if you glue cuz we’re going to we’re going to make these into ornaments. Look how bad. So, because they’re going to be hanging from the hat, you have to glue the pine cone into the hat. We didn’t want to put the glue on earlier when we fabric. I’m asking. I don’t know. I’ve never made this before. Mine looks pretty bad. Uh here. I want I want that pointy. This is what we’re going to do. I’m take we’re switching here. Yes. And then and then you’re going to insert glue around around the rim the rim of the rim and rim it. Okay. Okay. And these fancy glues. These are amazing. Oh, did I just ruin something? Oh, I think you just take that part off the gray. It’s nice to have a man around the hem. Did I break it? What the hell is this? I think you squeeze it. Oh, that super glue scares the [ __ ] out of me. Yeah, I don’t know how to work this. I told we’ll use the hemorrhoid cream. I told Nick we couldn’t do this unless I had a glue gun and he didn’t bring me a glue gun. No, I don’t use glue guns either. Once I heard you could really burn yourself. Same with sewing. A needle can go through your finger when you’ve got a machine. Nope. Not doing it. Okay. So, you add some glue. Add some glue. Stick the pine cone in. Perfect. Okay. All right. Great. Now, we have a good hat you made it. Right. It was pretty good. Yeah, this is the one that you made that I Wait, because of your lack of glue, we could use some VO. I could use I need some uh [ __ ] Wait a minute. I know that you love googly eyes. So, do you want googly eyes? Do you want to put googly eyes on your nose? Absolutely. All right. Okay. Or it could be one or Well, I told me everything I needed, Janette. No, no, no. I was actually I was like, that’s a really good idea. the eye to put the eyes on the outside of the um the hat is really cute. Pretty darn cute. I mean, you’re sad that you didn’t use that one. Is that have a tail? No. A little baby gnome would be cute for people who were expecting. Children love small pine cones. Okay. So, I’m going to put Look at stuck to the clue. Okay. All right. Eyeball there. Eyeball there. Yeah. And then if you want to do a nose, I have a nose for you, too. Definitely want to do a nose. And I like one eye bigger than the other. I like to mess around with googly eyes. Let’s see. I want an alcoholic nose. Uh oh. Okay. Yeah, my gnome’s a drinker. Here, you could use these little little palms there. See? H. Maybe not. Maybe I’ll do cream. The like the one you picked out from this glue. It’s okay. There we go. This glue happens to a lot of men. Don’t worry. Mostly after 50. But he’s never had Exactly. That’s kind of like This glue is really good. I don’t You should get him to sponsor your show. Seriously. Maybe then we could get a glue gun. And you could use a magic marker and give it eyebrows. Uh, look, we could I can get you a magic marker. Hold on. I’ll be right back. Will this go in there? No, that won’t. I have this perfect. I’m not auctioning this thing off. Amy, you’re going to need to sign that one though for I’m going to sign it on the hat. Okay. Yeah. But here, use this magic marker and you could just do whatever you want. Are these stickers on the Google Glows or you need glue on them? Uh, I think you need glue. You need glue. I see. I’m going to give it some drag queen. Where’s the glue? Oh, Michael. Michael’s got the glue. Oh, I love that. He Oh my god, look how cute yours is. You put a hat on and a hat. The hat did. His hat his head looked cold. And these Where did you get these? Uh the craft store, you know. What’s your crafts? What What craft store do you like? I like I go to Michaels generally. Yeah, but I don’t go a lot. It’s the closest one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, this glue is working. This glue works now, too. Okay. Googly eyes. See, I’m copying you. That’s okay. I like that. sticking. Well, I like Yeah, this is pretty darn cute. I take back everything negative. I The problem is with the hat, I’m just going to say, is where do you put the hook to hang it on your tree? Oh, right. Yeah, crafts have to have a purpose. Uh, you could glue it and then attach it to the pom pom on top. Mine kind of looks like Bert from Bert. Oh, it does. I don’t I don’t know. Oh my god, it totally does. Oh, he’s angry. Angry. I try to give him the Greek eyebrows. They are Greek eyebrows. Oh my god. I accident I accidentally wedged the eyes in the pine cone and I got to dig them out now. Wow. How did that happen? Have to change the name to Clinton’s crack corner. Oh, but you put them on the pine. Did you put yours on the pine cone, too? Or on the hat? Me, too. Oh, yours was lower. Okay. I was going to put the eyes on the pine cone, but you know, whatever. Doesn’t matter. It’s not my segment. I don’t see any hooks. You have to get those on your own. The main thing you need isn’t in here. Typical, you know, not included. Not included. Cheese itself. It does kind of like your AAA batteries. No water. Batteries not included. Yeah. A hook shortage. Okay. All right. Great. Well, yay. That was a success. No, that’s a doorbell. And I think, you know, Yeah. You could even get a little ring, like electrical tape, you know, thing, and stick it on the ring if you don’t have a tree, and just stick it on something that’s going to support it. You know what I mean? A collar. Yeah. A little collar support. Yeah. Yeah. And they made me pretty on the table at Christmas. And you can write the guest’s name on it. Oh, there you go. That definitely has a purpose that place. I want to I want to point something out pointing at how this is your craft and yours is how I started. Say seven years of the chew. I was the worst crafter by far. It turns out that somehow my skills have gotten much better than Carla’s includ. Oh, Carla, you’re holding his nose on. Oh, should we do the fan giveaway just to see who’s going to get these? Oh, yeah. Let’s Let’s draw. All right. So, uh, you’re going to choose our one of our fans. Oh, look at that big pot. It’s a big These are all of our fans. Big pot. Is that a cooking pot? No, it’s a a giant ice bucket and it’s insulated. Liz designed that, too. So, it’s it has a little stand on the outside. It’s for outdoor parties. Oh, wow. Cocktails. So, Oh, that’s great. Where do you get something like this? Sponsored Christies. Yeah. Where do you get this? Front gate. Oh, front gate. Yeah. my style. Okay. All right. Who’s our big winner? I’m going to sign this for you for the holidays and I’m going to send it to Oh, there’s Oh, Susan. Just say Susan. Susan A. Susan A. From where? Where is she from? Oh, she is from McCordsville, Indiana. All sets. And I’m going to sign Oh, Clint, you got to sign yours for sure. That’s my fault. It’s crack corner. Let’s crack. So, we should put this in an envelope and just see and then it’ll get smashed. It’ll look even better. So, there you have it. Yay. That was fun. That was fun. I honestly think that was fun. See, you can cradle it on a pair of sharp glasses. The kids I mean the scissors. Kids will love that. It’s perfect for children. Yeah. Perfect. [Music] You may have noticed some of the boards and plates we’re using. Those are all from Frontgate, including some for my very own collection. They’ve got everything from outdoor furniture to decor to entertaining essentials. All made with quality, comfort, and style in mind. And since most of it is designed in-house, you can’t find their pieces anywhere else. Frontgate, thanks for making our spread look so good. For more information, go to frontgate.com. Get that damn thing to stand up. Oops. I know. You just need a ring. I don’t Oh my. It happens. I just broke Amy’s. Oh my god, those look fantastic. Let’s put uh googly eye. I can send these two. Yeah. Oh, those are my favorite. We’ll also put this one. Yeah. A kit. Just a kit. And then they can do it. Make your own pine cone. Yeah. Why not? Oh, Michael. This is exciting. Oh, these look so nice. Thank you. Oh my gosh. Thank you, Amy. Let me like take a picture. So, I like when my mom had her take. Oh, I taste the garlic. It’s very good. Yeah. A little bit. Right. M. But Spanish coconut and cafees were all My mom always had those out. Those were like the two things for love the meatballs. Me, too. Mhm. They put mint in the meatballs. The Greek meatballs. Oh, do they really? Yeah. They’re really good. I like that. They as big as lamb. Lamb or lamb or meat or both? Yeah. This is so good. Have you done a Greek cookbook? Working on one now. Oh, good. It’ll be like, you know, Greekish. Mhm. Mhm. Like American Greek. Yeah. Yeah. That’s about why don’t we do a little fan mail while we can talk about it, right? Yeah. Fan mail. [Music] [Applause] Okay. All right. Dance as well as you craft. Wow. [Laughter] You know, wait. I just want to point something out real quick. When Liz was on, Clinton, Carla, and Liz beat the hell out of me. And I am so happy that you’re here. That’s freak out. Oh my god. I’m so happy you’re here. All right. And you have to answer these, too. A Does anybody call you Ames? I don’t know. I’m calling you Ames. No one ever called me. Ever. Ever. What’s a kitchen utensil or appliance that every home cook should have? Asks Amy from Miami. Ice. Or Annie from Miami. an ice pick. Ice pick. You picked her on ice. Well, I buy it in the bag and sometimes it comes clumped together, especially if you get at Christis. And so, I need that ice pick. And it also helps if you want to put a hole in a pair of shoes or I like an ice. Like an all Yeah. And I love a French bean slicer. Oh, yeah. I think a scale, too. Mhm. Oh, yeah. All right. Any What does this say? Are there any viral foods that you’ve had that you’ve enjoyed that viral vir like um you know like jubai chocolate for example you know that’s a big thing right now or do you ever do you ever go on Instagram or any other social and like see a recipe and try it. Do you ever do that? Um yes I have done it before and you’re going to ask me what and I’m going to say it’s feta it’s a feta the sheet pan feta right no feta dip. Oh, the feta dip. Feta dip. When you put the feta in and like tomatoes around and like and and you u put it in a in a quez feta. Uh Aisha made it when she was on the show. Feta dip. Whipped feta. Yeah. Whipped. Okay. Delicious. Mhm. And I just saw somebody make a Shirley Temple ice cream float. That was really good. I’m going to post that, but the music behind it isn’t good, so I’m going to change it out. Stony Road by Barbara Stries. What’s your go-to hot sauce if you like? Oh, I’m not a hot sauce person. Me either. Delicate. Right. Well, here we go. Go on. What about you guys? Do you have a go-to hot sauce for Andrew from Houston? I always want to say Hston. Um, I can’t remember the name. I just go by the picture. Shocking. I know. I I love Red Hot. I love for like a classic or Tabasco, but like for a fancy hot sauce, I think Truff makes a really delightful fancy hot sauce. And I usually don’t like truffle infused things, but it’s like real truffle. Very like a gentiel truffle and you get the heat. It’s nice. Yeah, they’re very nice. They’re very nice. Okay, how about this one? What is your least favorite food in the whole world? I don’t like limema beans. I grew up with them and I don’t like them at all. I just don’t like them. Yeah. Yep. That’s my least favorite. Shad row. It’s a sack of eggs. Shad Row. Oh, how does that break lime beans? Um I don’t eat octopus because I think that they are smarter than we are. Mhm. Right. Do you eat I’m fine with that. They’re still delicious. If they were smarter, they wouldn’t have eating smart food. I mean, they’re so good, though. What’s your What’s your least favorite? What can’t you eat? Raspberries. Really? I I I hate them, but I’m also allergic to them. So, it’s like I I found out I was allergic to them after I hated them. And it all like it all made sense. I’m allergic to shellfish. Oh, but it’s really funny when I blow up and I put baby powder on my face and laugh really hard. But that’s that’s and I worked at Red Lobster and Mary’s Fish Camp and I was Oh my god. Yeah. Fish Camp. Is that is Mary’s No, it’s closed just recently. Even when your career like you were doing TV and stuff and then also waiting table. I love waitressing. I love working with people. The timing’s so good and characters and I’m proud myself on memorizing their order and I never ask for help. It’s like 12 iced teas. I get them myself. You know you never got in the weeds or Yeah, you get in the weeds. I still have nightmares about being in the weeds. Right. It’s terrifying. It makes me really nervous when somebody doesn’t write my order down. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Well, if they screw it all up, it makes me like I I don’t know. Like at Lola, you know, we had servers that were with us for 15 20 years and they were incredible. They never wrote orders down, but they never forgot anything. Like it makes me I hate it when like that they sit there and then like your order comes and you’re like, I ordered the burger, I got the chicken, she ordered, you know, nothing’s right. But like those great servers that don’t have to write anything down to me is I mean it’s a it’s a it’s a skill and it’s a craft. I think Amy would be great with the microphone and the boom box, you know, on the street. A few weeks ago, I saw a guy on the streets of New York City. He had a a big boom box and that he was rolling around on a cart and it was attached to a microphone, right? And he’s blasting whatever he’s thinking out into the microphone. Blasting into the streets. He’s basically like, “Hey, that dude is wearing shorts even though it’s 40° out today. Maybe he’s going to the gym or coming from the gym. Now he’s going into Starbucks. Looks like he’s already been to the gym. Look at her. Yeah, coach. He’s probably going to marketing job right now. Like and it was amaz You would be amazing at that. Stream of consciousness would be amazing, right? Have you That’s fantasy. [Laughter] Eye. Yeah. Yeah. It was down on like Spruce. Oh, okay. Okay. Cuz I saw someone else doing that like around um the the path train on 32nd. Oh, you did? Maybe it’s the same guy. Maybe he goes around traveling. Yeah, traveling. And what was your reaction when you saw him? How annoying. Why is he ruining my day? I don’t wear headphones. I don’t I’m like the I am very alert, very observant. And then it’s like that’s the soundtrack. Really? You’re ruining my day because why do I have to hear you? It’s like people talking out loud on their phone. Once in a while you hear over hear something really good, but a lot of times you don’t. And it’s so annoying to me. When you hear something really good, do you comment? I mean, I bother people more than they bother me. I’m sure I have. You’re like, “Oh my god.” So, wait, tell me again. I thought you said that she did this, but then I realized that she didn’t. What? What? What? What’s happening? What’s happening? Who are? Yeah, girl. Leave him. You’ve dated him for 11 years and he’s asking you if you have a boyfriend. Leave him. I thought he was your boyfriend. Yeah. Amy, what? This is a half hour show, so we’re going to start wrapping it up, but I want to know what you’ve got going on in your life. What’s going be like short stories? I’ve been swamped and this is the last of my swamp time. So, I’m going to do So, I’m going to make some pot holders. I’m going to make a few practical crafts and I’m going to sell them at that store, the Lockavore on Sixth Avenue. It’s the future. I don’t know if you’ve been to that new store. No, it’s on like 10 next to Cinderella and they sell a bunch of local things. Everything’s made within 100 there. It’s great. Yeah, it’s good. I love her and Caroline runs it and so I’m going to sell some stuff there and all the money goes to ACC unfortunately. No, all the money goes to the ACC. That’s great. That’s my charity there. charity of choice. Yeah. All right. Well, keep an eye out for Amy Sedaris and anything that she does because she’s a genius. Thank you so much for being on Chewed Up. 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