Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Ilana Glazer co-created and starred in one of Rachel Belle's favorite TV shows of all time: the hilarious "Broad City!" She's an Emmy and Tony Award winning actor, producer, activist and comedian & she's on tour right now -- get tickets to see Ilana's standup show!
Ilana and Rachel talk about:

The only food that's okay to eat while you're naked

How Ilana blew her paychecks from her first job on Kielbasa

The power of breastfeeding at brunch

All of the delightful things she ate while touring her standup show around Europe over the summer

Her love of the Gilda, a classic, pickly, one-bite Basque pintxo

Then food journalist and chef Marti Buckley joins the show from San Sebastián, Spain to talk about Gildas: What they are! Their history! And why they're named after a glamorous Hollywood starlet from the 1940s. 
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This week on "The Leftovers," never-before-heard audio from Alexis Nikole Nelson, known to her nine million followers as Black Forager. Alexis' brand new, debut cookbook is called "Happy Snacking, Don't Die!"
Alexis tells me:

Which foraged food her partner hated when they met, that he can't get enough of now.

Her dream foraging destination and what she'd like to discover there. 

Which recipe from her cookbook she'd choose to have chiseled onto her gravestone someday. 

Listen to the full episode of Your Last Meal with Alexis Nikole Nelson here. 

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More than nine million people have their eyes glued to Alexis Nikole Nelson’s BlackForager videos, to watch her frolic through forests, fields, urban neighborhoods & her own backyard, foraging and cooking plants, flowers and funghi with exuberance, joy, silliness and humor. Her brand-new, debut cookbook Happy Snacking Don’t Die! is out now!  
Alexis tells me: 

Why there are so few Black foragers in America today & the importance of naming her social accounts BlackForager. 

The most magical recipe in her cookbook (actual science magic – she can turn your lemonade hot pink using plants!)  

What it was like testing, photographing and writing recipes for a cookbook when your star ingredients are highly seasonal and not available in grocery stores!  

And much more! 

Then we’ll learn the history of the Pop Tart from junk food journalist, Carolyn Wyman. 

Become a Cascade PBS member and support public media!  

Watch Rachel’s Cascade PBS TV show The Nosh with Rachel Belle.   

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Order Rachel’s cookbook Open Sesame.

If there is a new TV show or movie, D'Arcy Carden is probably in it! She stars in the new show The Five-Star Weekend and many others like Barry, The Handmaid’s Tale, A League of Their Own, Broad City and the show that kicked off her career, her first big role, playing Janet on The Good Place. 
But Rachel has known D’Arcy since college, so they do a little walk down memory lane! D’Arcy shares some behind-the-scenes tidbits on how food props worked on The Good Place and they bond over a shared love for a Bay Area ice cream shop from childhood.  
Rachel talks to Alan Finkelstein, who has worked at McDonald’s since 1971, about the history of their famous fries. And, things get real sweet with Lauren Wilson, owner of Sweet Lo's Ice Cream, who gives us the scoop on Rocky Road. 

Become a Cascade PBS member and support public media! 

Watch Rachel’s Cascade PBS TV show The Nosh with Rachel Belle.  

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Order Rachel’s cookbook Open Sesame.

This week on "The Leftovers," never-before-heard audio from bestselling, award-winning humor writer David Sedaris, to celebrate his new book of essays, "The Land and Its People." 
David tells me:

What snacks he stops for on his daily 10+ mile walks

About the incredible, homemade dessert his husband makes for his birthday

The type of person he loves to share a meal with

Where to find the best doughnut in New York City

Listen to the full episode of Your Last Meal with David Sedaris here.

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.