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Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

YOUR LAST MEAL is a James Beard Award finalist for best podcast hosted by National Edward R. Murrow award-winning reporter, cookbook author and Cascade PBS TV hostRachel Belle. 

Each episode Rachel asks a celebrity (Greta Gerwig, Jonathon Van Ness, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Margaret Cho, Alton Brown, Isaac Mizrahi, Ani DiFranco, Iron & Wine, etc) what they would choose to eat for their last meal. Then she uncovers the history, science and culture of these dishes with everyone from the designer who created Lady Gaga's meat dress to the ice cream scientists at Ben & Jerry's.

Film Interviews Science Tv & Film History Music Food Comedy Music Interviews Comedy Interviews Arts
Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
28 minutes
Episodes
260
Years Active
2016 - 2025
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Moshe Kasher: Gordo's Bean & Cheese Burrito

Moshe Kasher: Gordo's Bean & Cheese Burrito

As a kid, Moshe Kasher (Subculture Vulture, The Endless Honeymoon Podcast, Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy From Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Tu…

00:47:21  |   Thu 01 Feb 2024
Audie Cornish: Anything her husband cooks

Audie Cornish: Anything her husband cooks

Welcome to Your Last Meal’s most romantic episode! Audie Cornish (CNN reporter and host of CNN’s The Assignment podcast) says her last meal is less about what she’s eating and everything about who sh…

00:42:20  |   Thu 18 Jan 2024
David Cross: Poutine

David Cross: Poutine

Comedian and actor David Cross is best known for his roles as Tobias Fünke on Arrested Development and Mr Show, and he has a new podcast and comedy special out now!

David says he grew up poor, hating…

00:32:03  |   Thu 04 Jan 2024
Rachel Belle on Desert Island Dishes

Rachel Belle on Desert Island Dishes

Across the pond, in a country far, far away (um, England), Your Last Meal has a podcast cousin! On each episode of Desert Island Dishes, chef and host Margie Nomura asks her guests about the dishes t…

00:38:20  |   Thu 21 Dec 2023
Reggie Watts: Roast Chicken

Reggie Watts: Roast Chicken

Reggie Watts is the best kind of weirdo: a comedian, musician and beat-boxer who spent eight years as the house bandleader for The Late Late Show with James Corden. His new book, Great Falls, Montana…

00:30:33  |   Thu 07 Dec 2023
A Thanksgiving Potluck!

A Thanksgiving Potluck!

Welcome to the very first Your Last Meal Thanksgiving! We’re having a big Friendsgiving audio potluck, inviting past guests to contribute a dish to the holiday meal. Country music star Martina McBrid…

00:32:12  |   Wed 22 Nov 2023
On Set with 'Lessons In Chemistry

On Set with 'Lessons In Chemistry" Food Consultant Courtney McBroom

Lessons in Chemistry, an Apple TV+ show based on the bestselling book of the same name, is set in the early 1950s and centers around a young woman named Elizabeth Zott, played by Brie Larson. Elizabe…

00:22:51  |   Thu 09 Nov 2023
Andrew Rea (Babish): An Italian-American Feast

Andrew Rea (Babish): An Italian-American Feast

Andrew Rea is best known for his super-popular YouTube channel, Babish Culinary Universe, where 10 million subscribers tune in to watch him host cooking shows like Binging with Babish, where he recre…

00:34:01  |   Thu 26 Oct 2023
Sarah Cooper: Mom's Liver, Johnny Cakes & Callaloo

Sarah Cooper: Mom's Liver, Johnny Cakes & Callaloo

Comedian and writer Sarah Cooper rose to fame in the most modern of ways: through TikTok! Her viral videos, lip-syncing Donald Trump’s speeches during the pandemic, eventually landed her a Netflix sh…

00:33:40  |   Thu 12 Oct 2023
Comedian Zarna Garg: Masala Chai

Comedian Zarna Garg: Masala Chai

Zarna Garg immigrated to the United States from India alone, at 16, without a penny to her name. Fast-forward to 2018: She’s a stay-at-home mom with three kids and bored out of her mind. At her child…

00:38:27  |   Thu 28 Sep 2023
Ron & Don: Cherry Pie & A Tasting Menu

Ron & Don: Cherry Pie & A Tasting Menu

Ron Upshaw and Don O’Neill are longtime radio partners who spent decades moving around the country together, hosting all kinds of big-market radio shows. And YLM host Rachel Belle was a part of The R…

00:46:56  |   Thu 14 Sep 2023
Iron & Wine's Sam Beam: Stack of Tomato Sandwiches

Iron & Wine's Sam Beam: Stack of Tomato Sandwiches

If you've ever had a tomato sandwich, then you know this is the best time of the year! In honor of *tomato season* (and host Rachel Belle being on vacation) we are re-airing this episode from 2019.

I…

00:29:05  |   Thu 31 Aug 2023
Heather McMahan: Steak House Side Dishes

Heather McMahan: Steak House Side Dishes

After years of living in New York City and Los Angeles, the pandemic brought
comedian Heather McMahan back to her hometown of Atlanta, where she’s living
in her childhood home with her husband and ...…

00:30:21  |   Thu 17 Aug 2023
Pati Jinich: Milanesa de Pollo and Mashed Potatoes

Pati Jinich: Milanesa de Pollo and Mashed Potatoes

Mexico City native Pati Jinich made an unusual career change: from a political analyst at a Washington, D.C. think tank to a cooking teacher and, eventually, award-winning PBS host. For over a decade…

00:33:07  |   Thu 03 Aug 2023
'Barbie' director Greta Gerwig: Funfetti Cake

'Barbie' director Greta Gerwig: Funfetti Cake

I interviewed Greta Gerwig back in 2017, when her film Lady Bird came out, and in honor of Barbie-mania, I am re-airing an edited version of my interview with the writer and director of the new 'Barb…

00:27:25  |   Thu 27 Jul 2023
Peppermint: Rock Lobster!

Peppermint: Rock Lobster!

Peppermint was the first out, trans contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race, the first trans woman to originate a principal role on Broadway and she stars in the new Netflix series “Survival of the Thickest…

00:22:04  |   Thu 20 Jul 2023
Bear Grylls: Red Meat, Butter & Cocktails

Bear Grylls: Red Meat, Butter & Cocktails

Bear Grylls is a survivalist, adventurist & host of soooo mannny TV shows, including the wildly popular Man VS Wild, Born Survivor and the new season of Running Wild With Bear Grylls: The Challenge, …

00:43:41  |   Thu 06 Jul 2023
Tegan and Sara: McDonald's + Tuna Sashimi

Tegan and Sara: McDonald's + Tuna Sashimi

Canadian twin sisters and band mates, Tegan and Sara, have been touring the world, playing music together, since they graduated from high school in 1998.

In honor of their new book, a semi-autobiogra…

00:38:43  |   Thu 22 Jun 2023
Marc Summers LIVE! : Thin Crust Pizza & Junior's Cheesecake

Marc Summers LIVE! : Thin Crust Pizza & Junior's Cheesecake

You may know Marc Summers as the host of Nickelodeon's Double Dare and Food Network's Unwrapped, but you may not know that he got his start as a magician and helped launch Guy Fieri's career!

Marc jo…

00:41:12  |   Thu 08 Jun 2023
Bill Nye: French Baguette

Bill Nye: French Baguette

It's Bill Nye the Science Guy! Nye has spent decades using his special brand of high energy humor to educate folks about science, so obviously he can get real nerdy when it comes to the science of ba…

00:35:43  |   Thu 25 May 2023
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