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Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

By: Rachel Belle
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Summary

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 host Rachel 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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Episodes
  • Eve Plumb: Spaghetti with American Cheese
    May 7 2026

    Eve Plumb was 10 years old when she landed the role of Jan Brady, the middle daughter on The Brady Bunch, and now she's sharing what was going on behind-the-scenes in her new memoir, Happiness Included: Jan Brady and Beyond.

    The night Eve got the part, in 1969, her parents took her out for a celebratory dinner at Martoni’s, a martini-soaked, Italian-American Hollywood hot spot popular with folks in the music industry. Los Angeles culinary historian Katherine Spiers spills the tea on all the juicy Martoni’s celebrity gossip and tells host Rachel Belle which unsuspecting dish was all the rage in 1960s L.A.

    Eve connects the dots between her favorite fast food order and her last meal and talks about which The Brady Bunch cast member she still has monthly drinks with!

    • 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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    27 mins
  • The Leftovers with Dawn Richard
    Apr 30 2026

    This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from Dawn Richard, singer; animator and Adult Swim creative consultant and owner of Papa Ted’s vegan food truck in New Orleans.

    In a lightning round, Dawn talks about graduating from college at the same time as her dad and her grandma, which food celebrity she admires most and how she finds a way to "New Orleansify" everything she cooks!

    Listen to the full episode of Your Last Meal with Dawn Richard 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.

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    8 mins
  • Dawn Richard: New Orleans Crawfish Boil
    Apr 23 2026

    Dawn Richard is a proud New Orleans native and a true Renaissance Woman: singer; animator and Adult Swim creative consultant and owner of Papa Ted’s vegan food truck in New Orleans.

    Dawn went vegan back in 2013, in solidarity with her dad after he received a non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis. She talks about getting naked for PETA, the ethical intentionality behind her food truck and what (not-vegan) food she misses the most but will never eat again.

    Then we crack into the history & explore the culture of what is, perhaps, New Orleans’ oldest food tradition: crawfish! Food historian Dr Zella Palmer introduces host Rachel Belle to Al Scramuzza, the city’s late Crawfish King, and shares her favorite places to experience a crawfish boil in the city.

    • 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.
    Show More Show Less
    28 mins
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