Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
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This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from chef and best-selling cookbook author Gaby Dalkin, who's known online and on social as What’s Gaby Cooking.
In this week’s lightning round, Gaby and host Rachel Belle bond over their favorite childhood birthday cake, Gaby shares the late-night, stand-over-the-sink snack she’d never put in a cookbook, and surprises Rachel with her answer to the question, “What do you wish people would ask you about in interviews, that’s not related to food?”
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Earlier this month, at Seattle’s Town Hall, Rachel Belle was a guest on a sold-out, live taping of Seattle Eats with host Tan Vinh, the award-winning food and drink writer for The Seattle Times. Bestselling cookbook author and chef, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt was also a guest!
The first segment of the show is dedicated to Thanksgiving: we learn about a local sushi chef’s recipe for teriyaki turkey, how green bean casserole factors into Tan’s immigrant story, and why Rachel has fond Thanksgiving memories of KFC and Celine Dion. Then Tan asks Rachel and Kenji about their Seattle favorites (best pizza, best bagels, best place to take a date) and Rachel gets to express her love for 1980s salad bars and The Baby-Sitters Club.
Seattle Eats is a production of The Seattle Times and KUOW, part of the NPR network.
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- Watch Rachel’s Cascade PBS TV show, The Nosh.
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- Follow along on Instagram.
- Order Rachel’s cookbook Open Sesame.
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Best known to her millions of followers as What’s Gaby Cooking, the Los Angeles-area chef is a best-selling cookbook author, creator of the Dalkin & Co spice blend line and you can eat her food at Gaby’s in Neighborly food hall.
Gaby tells Rachel Belle how she went from being a tragically picky eater to having a career as a chef, shares which celebrity she private cheffed for, and the dish that literally broke her website when said celebrity gushed over it on a late-night talk show.
Gaby wants to cook and enjoy her last meal in the Sonora region of Mexico, so Rachel interviews the owner of Caramelo, an artisan, Sonoran-style tortilla maker out of Lawrence, Kansas. Yes, Kansas! And Rachel swears there are no better tortillas in America!
- Become a Cascade PBS member and support public media!
- Watch Rachel’s Cascade PBS TV show, The Nosh.
- Sign up for Rachel’s (free!) biweekly Cascade PBS newsletter for more food musings.
- Follow along on Instagram.
- Order Rachel’s cookbook Open Sesame.
Support Cascade PBS: https://secure.cascadepublicmedia.org/page/133995/donate/1/
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Prolific, five-time James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Dorie Greenspan is the queen of sweets, and she just released her 15th cookbook, Dorie’s Anytime Cakes.
Famous for her beloved World Peace Cookies and many baking books, including one she wrote with Julia Child, it's not surprising that Dorie wants to start and end her last meal with dessert. What's wrong with eating dessert first, anyway? Rachel chats with Ayurvedic counselor Jodi Boone about the life-bettering benefits of starting your meal with sweets.
And when Dorie told Rachel she ate the same exact lunch every single day for years, the first person we thought of was Donald Gorske. Gorske has eaten almost nothing but McDonald's Big Macs since 1972, putting his current Big Mac count at over 35,000. Rachel called the Fond du Lac, Wisconsin native on his flip phone to learn why the man eats two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun ... Every. Single. Day.
- Become a Cascade PBS member and support public media!
- Watch Rachel’s Cascade PBS TV show The Nosh with Rachel Belle.
- Sign up for Rachel’s (free!) biweekly Cascade PBS newsletter for more food musings.
- Follow along on Instagram.
- Order Rachel’s cookbook Open Sesame.
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Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka’s last meal, and the reason why she sometimes carries cooked scallops in her bag, trace back to her unstable, unpredictable childhood. She talks about being kidnapped by her grandmother and why a gluten-free spaghetti dinner brings her comfort, even as someone who doesn’t have a gluten sensitivity.
Atsuko’s first foray into entertainment was working at an ice cream chain that made employees sing and dance for tips. Atsuko loved it, but host Rachel Belle interviews two other folks who had no idea they had to perform at their restaurant jobs, until they saw it happening on their first day. One at Chicago’s famous Wiener’s Circle and another at a now-defunct steak house chain.
Atsuko is on tour now! You can also watch her standup specials on HBO and Hulu.
- Get tickets to Rachel's event: Food Fight x America’s Test Kitchen in Seattle, November 8!
- Become a Cascade PBS member and support public media!
- Watch Rachel’s Cascade PBS TV show The Nosh with Rachel Belle.
- Sign up for Rachel’s (free!) biweekly Cascade PBS newsletter for more food musings.
- Follow along on Instagram.
- Order Rachel’s cookbook Open Sesame.
Support Cascade PBS: https://secure.cascadepublicmedia.org/page/133995/donate/1/
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