Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Jessica Seinfeld's latest cookbook, Vegan, At Times , is an ode to her current lifestyle of eating  mostly vegan, but she still enjoys the occasional bowl of warming chicken soup or nostalgic spaghetti and meatballs. She calls it a "gentler approach" to veganism and doesn't believe in creating rules around eating or doing any plant-based proselytizing. Jessica's last meal took us down a path we ne...

Paul Janeway is a southern boy from a small Alabama town who's had his world blown wide open thanks to music. Touring the world with his band, St Paul & the Broken Bones, has drastically expanded his palate -- he's eaten everything from pigeon heart to fancy Michelin star meals. But only one dish truly has his heart: Kraft Macaroni & Cheese! Paul and host Rachel Belle go deep into their Bl...

Bob's Burgers star (he voices Gene!) Eugene Mirman took an unorthodox route to becoming a professional comedian: he actually earned a bachelor's degree in comedy! And a quick scroll through his Instagram page reveals a man who loves home cooking; he's whipped up everything from pad Thai to homemade pasta while spending lots of time at home during the pandemic. So this episode is all about the inte...

At 90 years old, William Shatner is an exuberant, curious, ridiculous flavor of hilarious and his chat with host Rachel Belle feels like a live improv performance with plenty of unexpected twists and turns. Shatner is best known for his role as Captain Kirk on  Star Trek and "singing" popular songs in his signature spoken word style, but he also has strong opinions about avocado toast, considers h...

Award winning ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro is a lifelong Hawaii resident, where catching a big fish in the morning means feasting with friends and family that evening. One of his favorite catches is kumu, a fish that exists nowhere else in the world except Hawaii. Host Rachel Belle chats with Mark Healey , a Hawaiian professional surfer who has been sustainably spearfishing for his dinner since...

Vanessa Lachey's new book, Life from Scratch: Family Traditions That Start with You , features recipes and entertaining ideas, but the book is rooted in a deep and vulnerable place. Vanessa's mom left when she was a little girl, depriving her of motherly advice, care and the Filipino food she craved. It took decades, but the actor and TV host finally felt empowered to stop mourning what she lost,...

Winning Season 6 of The Great British Bake-Off completely changed Nadiya Hussain 's life. The fan favorite went from a stay-at-home mom to the author of more than a dozen books, she's hosted nearly as many television programs and was commissioned by Buckingham Palace to bake Queen Elizabeth II's 90th birthday cake (orange drizzle cake with orange curd and orange butter cream, in case you're cake c...

Milk Bar founder, chef and CEO Christina Tosi loves dessert so much, she would happily give up savory foods for three square meals a day of cookies and milk and ice cream. We talk about the special cake her husband designed for their wedding (that he made her promise to never make for anyone else), the career she almost chose instead of baking and the wacky flavor creations her colleagues won't le...

Carla Lalli Music has found success in so many culinary corners of the food world; from her job as Shake Shake's very first manager to Bon Appétit  magazine's food director to bestselling cookbook author. Her new, cheery, bright yellow cookbook is called  That Sounds So Good  -- a phrase we've certainly all moaned after reading about a particularly droolworthy dish. Carla's last meal doesn't conta...

To celebrate Ken Jennings' return to the Jeopardy stage, we're re-airing his episode, which happens to be one of our favorites! In 2004,  Jeopardy  champion Ken Jennings won 74 games in a row, making him the record holder for longest winning streak. In 2020 he slayed  Jeopardy' s Greatest of All Time tournament and he will be sharing  Jeopardy hosting duties through the end of the year, alternatin...

Phoebe Robinson is all grown up. The standup comedian,  New York Times  best-selling author, and co-host of the  2 Dope Queens  podcast and HBO show recently started her own imprint with Penguin Random House to focus on publishing women, POC and queer authors; including her own new book,  Please Don't Sit On My Bed In Your Outside Clothes . And even MORE adult: she says she finally has matching di...

Country music star, Martina McBride , has won 15 major music awards, sold more than 23 million albums, written two cookbooks and has a brand new exhibit in Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame Museum. But her roots are in a small, Kansas farm town where she grew up eating plenty of canned vegetables and ground beef with her musical family. You know what other musically gifted gal grew up on a fa...

You know Antoni Porowski as the charming, gentle, earnest food and wine expert on Netflix's Queer Eye , but before he got his big break, he was an out of work actor who spent years working front-of-the-house restaurant jobs. Antoni shares his biggest home kitchen splurge, after landing the coveted job as one of the Fab Five, and  Your Last Meal listeners call in to confess their most extravagant f...

Tony and Grammy nominated performer Joshua Henry has been in nine Broadway shows, including In the Heights  and the role of Aaron Burr in the first run of  Hamilton , and he's about to release his first solo album. Joshua grew up in Miami, on his mom's Jamaican food, so host Rachel Belle welcomes Jamaican culinary historian and cookbook author Victoria Burke to the show to lay out the long, fascin...

It's Your Last Meal' s 5th Anniversary, but instead of the traditional 5th anniversary gift of wood, we're giving you the gift of...this podcast episode! The show's very first guest , back in August 2016, was Seattle chef and restaurateur Tom Douglas . So we flipped the script and rallied Tom to interview host Rachel Belle about her last meal! This episode is all about party foods, so Rachel welco...

Lake Street Dive 's singer, Rachael Price, and drummer, Mike Calabrese, have been buddies since college, when they formed their first band together at Boston's New England Conservatory of Music. Years and years of touring, and eating every meal together on the road, means they know each other's eating habits inside out. But there was one thing they didn't know about each other: their last meals! T...

Mark Bittman is a veteran food writer and prolific cookbook author known for his unfussy recipes and "How To Cook Everything," a 2,000-recipe tome that's sold more than a million copies. So when it comes to his last meal, Mark stays on brand and keeps it simple. So simple, in fact, he won't actually name a specific dish! Mark is also a dad. So as a Father's Day treat, host Rachel Belle invited Mar...

Rachel Belle hosted the very first Your Last Meal  *LIVE* at Crosscut Festival ! She was joined by brothers Mark and Brian Canlis, third generation owners of Seattle's 70-year-old fine dining institution, Canlis . The Canlis brothers just hired a new executive chef, only the 7th in the restaurant's history, and they share the quirky and unconventional application process they used to help weed out...

Michelle Zauner is famous for playing music under the name Japanese Breakfast , but it turns out she's one of those obnoxiously talented people who creatively thrives in multiple genres. Michelle just released a wildly popular memoir called Crying in H Mart , about her complicated relationship with her Korean mother who died of cancer when Michelle was 25. Korean food plays a huge role in the book...

Actor Mayim Bialik ( Blossom, Big Bang Theory, Call Me Kat ) is a pickle monster. If it's crunchy, face puckering sour and floating in brine, chances are she's going to love it. Pickles are one of humanity's most ancient foods, so host Rachel Belle consults with Jan Davison, author of  Pickles, a Global History to suss out their origin story and Alan Kaufman, owner of The Pickle Guys , Manhattan's...

It's been 41 years since Raffi's hit children's song  Baby Beluga  was released and he's still plucking away at the guitar and writing new tunes. Raffi is arguably the most famous performer of children's music in North America, but he's also an outspoken environmentalist and activist for climate change, which greatly influences the way he eats (read: so many vegetables!). Raffi loves pesto, a seem...

Growing up, Friday nights were for slumber parties, pizza delivery and the best TV of the week: the TGIF lineup, starting with the very best show,  Full House . Candace Cameron Bure was a big part of host Rachel Belle's childhood, and she's wiggled her way into the nostalgia of a new generation, reprising the role of DJ Tanner on  Fuller House  and writing her latest children's book,  Candace's Pl...

Julia Quinn is a  New York Times  bestselling author 19 times over, but a whole new audience has been introduced to her work since her popular  Bridgerton romance novels were turned into a fantastically popular Netflix show. Julia doesn't write much about food in her Regency Era novels, so host Rachel Belle called on Paul Couchman , a food historian known as “The Regency Chef,” who offers Regency...

For the 100th episode of  Your Last Meal , host Rachel Belle welcomes three, 100-year-old women to the show to share their extraordinary lives, their last meals and the secret to a long, happy life: red wine and “keeping your own teeth.” It is our pleasure to introduce you to Antoinette Underwood, a World War II nurse with a love of dry, Italian wines, Ruth Samuelson, who walked a half marathon at...

Want to be the best tennis player in the world? Start playing when you're four years old! That's what Maria Sharapova did and after five career Grand Slams, an Olympic medal and an impressive 28 years of playing, she retired last year. But Maria is still working -- she's CEO of Sugarpova , her very own candy company, inspired by her love of collecting sweet treats when she traveled the world playi...