Alicia Silverstone, Vegan Cheese

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Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The "Clueless" star admits that although she's been vegan since 1998, she's most tempted by delicious cheese, so we talk to Youssef Fakhouri, owner of Alicia's (and LA's) favorite vegan cheese shop, Vromage.

And remember that 2012 video of Alicia feeding her child like a baby bird? It caused quite the stir, so Rachel gets to the bottom of "premastication" with Melanie Martin, post-doctoral associate at Yale University in the field of Biological Anthropology.

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.
0:05.8	Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show.
0:24.5	I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal.
0:28.7	A show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.
0:34.5	Today on the program, actor, author, and animal rights activist Alicia Silverstone.
0:38.9	Perhaps most famous for starring in one of my favorite teen movies of the 90s,
0:46.0	clueless. Oh, as if. But there's something else that Alicia Silverstone became known for in recent years. In 2012, she posted a video where she is baby birding her young son. Excuse me? Yes. May I
0:53.0	ask a question? Yes, yeah, I call on you. Is it what I think
0:56.0	it is, baby birding? I don't know. What do you think it is? It sounds like she's chewing up food and
1:00.8	spitting it into baby's mouth. Ding, ding, ding. Oh no. Yeah, that's right. And this video
1:05.3	caused millions of Americans to simultaneously judge her and throw up in their own mouth, which is even grosser than
1:12.7	baby birding, in my opinion. This is officially called pre-mastication, and we're going to learn
1:17.4	all about the cultural and historical implications of pre-mastication from Yale University
1:22.1	biological anthropologist Melanie Martin. So I will be totally up front. I actually did it with my own kids.
1:29.5	And you'll meet Yosef Fokori,
1:31.4	owner and cheesemaker at Ramage in West Hollywood.
1:34.7	A vegan cheese shop that Alicia Silverstone is obsessed with.
1:38.3	Her son, bear, is incredible.
1:40.9	Such a cutie and smart.
1:43.0	I wash his hand.
1:43.9	He helped me sometimes make his sandwich.
1:46.4	But first, Alicia Silverstone. I was really, really excited for the opportunity to interview
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