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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.

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Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
28 minutes
Episodes
260
Years Active
2016 - 2025
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Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman, Steak Frites & A Bowl of Peak Season Vegetables

Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman, Steak Frites & A Bowl of Peak Season Vegetables

It's the Food + Friendship episode!

Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman are long-distance best friends who host the popular podcast Call your Girlfriend and co-wrote the new, best selling book Big Friendsh…

00:31:56  |   Thu 15 Oct 2020
John Waters: A Single Leaf of Arugula

John Waters: A Single Leaf of Arugula

Filmmaker (Hairspray, Pink Flamingos, Cry Baby) John Waters built a decades long career creating strange, sometimes grotesque, cult art that, for years, had most of America clutching its collective p…

00:30:44  |   Thu 24 Sep 2020
Spilled Milk Podcast: Cacio e Pepe, Okonomiyaki, Chocolate Malt

Spilled Milk Podcast: Cacio e Pepe, Okonomiyaki, Chocolate Malt

Listening to Matthew Amster-Burton & Molly Wizenberg host the popular culinary comedy podcast 'Spilled Milk' is like eavesdropping on a giggly slumber party between two curious, well-read best friend…

00:39:16  |   Thu 03 Sep 2020
Best of: Isaac Mizrahi, Homemade Tomato Sauce & Mint Chip Ice Cream

Best of: Isaac Mizrahi, Homemade Tomato Sauce & Mint Chip Ice Cream

We are hard at work on a brand new episode of 'Your Last Meal,' but until then we are re-releasing an updated version of one of our favorite interviews with Isaac Mizrahi!

Acclaimed fashion designer …

00:32:58  |   Thu 20 Aug 2020
François Clemmons, Soul Food

François Clemmons, Soul Food

François Clemmons is best known for playing Officer Clemmons on Mr Roger's Neighborhood from 1968 to 1993 and he shares the story of his life in a new book called Officer Clemmons: A Memoir. François…

00:32:15  |   Thu 30 Jul 2020
Danny Trejo, Tacos, Nachos & Coffee

Danny Trejo, Tacos, Nachos & Coffee

Danny Trejo has happily played the villain, the bad guy & the mean dude in more than 300 films. And now that he's hit his 70s he's added a new career to his incredibly diverse portfolio: restaurant o…

00:36:58  |   Thu 09 Jul 2020
Rose McGowan, Taco Bell

Rose McGowan, Taco Bell

Actor, activist and musician, Rose McGowan, was born and raised in Italy, in what many would describe as a cult. When she moved to the United States at age 10, she said she cried, knowing her days of…

00:28:01  |   Thu 25 Jun 2020
Valerie Bertinelli, Cappelletti in Brodo

Valerie Bertinelli, Cappelletti in Brodo

Actor and Food Network star Valerie Bertinelli's happiest childhood memories are set in her Aunt Adeline’s basement kitchen, where pots bubbled with marinara for her mom's lasagna and her nonnie stoo…

00:27:06  |   Thu 11 Jun 2020
Bethany Cosentino, The Cheesecake Factory's Mac & Cheese & Caesar Salad

Bethany Cosentino, The Cheesecake Factory's Mac & Cheese & Caesar Salad

The affection that Best Coast's singer, songwriter and guitarist, Bethany Cosentino, has for suburban chain restaurants is not ironic. A musician who's (almost) always on the road (thanks, quarantine…

00:32:08  |   Thu 21 May 2020
Laura Prepon, Mussels

Laura Prepon, Mussels

Actor Laura Prepon (That 70s Show, Orange is the New Black) is the mother of two tiny children and just released a book called You and I, as Mothers: A Raw and Honest Guide to Motherhood. But in her …

00:28:12  |   Thu 07 May 2020
Betsey Johnson: Smoked salmon with capers and plenty of lime

Betsey Johnson: Smoked salmon with capers and plenty of lime

Betsey Johnson has been a fashion designer since the 1960s and her clothes are just as colorful and vivacious as the true stories in her new book, Betsey, A Memoir. From her courthouse wedding to the…

00:27:59  |   Thu 23 Apr 2020
Judy Gold: Challah, stuffed cabbage, chocolate pudding

Judy Gold: Challah, stuffed cabbage, chocolate pudding

Comedian Judy Gold's email signature reads "Sent while thinking about my next meal"...but what about her last meal?! A stand-up comic for nearly 40 years, Judy won two Emmy's for writing and producin…

00:29:29  |   Thu 09 Apr 2020
The Your Last Meal Quarantine Cooking Club!

The Your Last Meal Quarantine Cooking Club!

Hello, friends! Normally we would be releasing a new episode today. But a certain pandemic, of which we will not name, has complicated things a bit. We are still working on making new episodes, becau…

00:04:21  |   Thu 26 Mar 2020
Ben Gibbard, Veggie Burrito from Taqueria Cancun

Ben Gibbard, Veggie Burrito from Taqueria Cancun

Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie, Postal Service) hates brunch. But heck, so did Anthony Bourdain! Host Rachel Belle explores the history of the mid-morning weekend meal and asks New Yorker writer Sa…

00:31:08  |   Thu 12 Mar 2020
Guy Branum, His Mom's Peach Cobbler

Guy Branum, His Mom's Peach Cobbler

Comedian and writer Guy Branum (Chelsea Lately, The Mindy Project) grew up on an almond farm in the northern California farming community of Yuba City, where he was forced to hunt pheasant with his d…

00:26:36  |   Thu 27 Feb 2020
Marco Collins, Eggs Benedict

Marco Collins, Eggs Benedict

Legendary radio DJ, Marco Collins, was the first disc jockey in the world to play records by Nirvana, Weezer, Beck, Pearl Jam, Garbage, and many others, when he was music director and DJ at Seattle's…

00:35:03  |   Thu 06 Feb 2020
Gloria Gaynor, Chicken Wings

Gloria Gaynor, Chicken Wings

Forty years ago, disco queen Gloria Gaynor won a Grammy for I Will Survive, a universally relatable anthem that's still blasted and belted out at pride parades and karaoke parties and inside showers …

00:21:39  |   Thu 23 Jan 2020
Best of: Greta Gerwig & Molly Yeh: Funfetti!

Best of: Greta Gerwig & Molly Yeh: Funfetti!

Director and actor Greta Gerwig chatted with host Rachel Belle two years ago, after her award winning coming-of-age film Lady Bird came out. Now she's back with a new movie, the Louisa May Alcott cla…

00:27:15  |   Thu 09 Jan 2020
Unorthodox Podcast: Friendly's Fishamajig, Ben's Kosher Deli & Israeli Schnitzel

Unorthodox Podcast: Friendly's Fishamajig, Ben's Kosher Deli & Israeli Schnitzel

It's Hanukkah, friends! And in an attempt to build a human menorah, host Rachel Belle invited Mark Oppenheimer, Stephanie Butnick and Liel Leibovitz into the studio, hosts of the world's leading Jewi…

00:41:17  |   Thu 26 Dec 2019
Alison Roman, Slice of New York Pizza

Alison Roman, Slice of New York Pizza

Alison Roman is everywhere these days. She's been zipping around the world promoting her new, New York Times best selling cookbook, Nothing Fancy, never without her signature orange-red lips and matc…

00:27:30  |   Thu 05 Dec 2019
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