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

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

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 Friendship. Just like New York City was the fifth character in Sex and the City, snacks might be the third wheel in Ann and Aminatou's friendship. After years of lounging on each other's couches, chatting and watching Gossip Girl in their comfiest clothes, the pair have perfected their snack game.

Learn the bizarre, over-the-top history of the cheese ball (Ann's snack specialty) with its political ties to President Thomas Jefferson, and the not-so-wacky history of Texas queso (Aminatou's snack strength) with Lisa Fain, author of the cookbook Queso and The Homesick Texan blog.

Is there a food that defines one of your friendships? A meal that has become a friendship tradition? In the 90s, when their friends were cooking sophisticated and foreign dishes, Seattle's Joelle Nole and Michelle Dideon forged a friendship over their secret love of beef stroganoff. But 28 years later they're still arguing over who won the Beef Stroganoff Off.

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"What would your last meal be?" On this James Beard Award finalist for best podcast, National Edward R. Murrow award-winning reporter Rachel Belle asks guests like Greta Gerwig, John Waters, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Jenny Slate this question; but that’s just the beginning! Each dish’s origins, preparation, and cultural influence are among the many stones upturned as Rachel consults chefs and culinary anthropologists, fishmongers and fry cooks on her quest to explore every facet of Your Last Meal.

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0:00.0	Cairo, Seattle.
0:13.2	I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.
0:20.7	Today on the program, the hosts of the popular podcast, Call Your Girlfriend.
0:25.8	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.
0:27.6	A podcast for long-distance besties everywhere.
0:30.4	I'm Aminatu, and I'm Anne Friedman.
0:33.1	Anne lives in L.A. Aminatu lives in Brooklyn, and they started the podcast as a way to keep in touch.
0:39.0	But six years later, they have welcomed incredible guests, including Hillary Rodham Clinton.
0:44.4	They are also the authors of the new bestselling book, Big Friendship, a very good book about
0:49.8	that we will talk more about later. And because I can't talk about friendship without
0:55.1	mentioning the TV show that has bonded me with so many friends, remember when the cultural
0:59.9	commentators used to say that New York City was the fifth character on Sex in the City? Well,
1:05.6	I think that snacks might be the official third wheel in Aminatu and Anne's friendship.
1:14.2	Anne and Aminatu will reveal their strongest snack game and tell the story about the time they ate Thanksgiving dinner together in a grocery store parking lot.
1:20.3	I remember that like very fondly.
1:22.3	Like, okay, great.
1:23.3	We're both hungry and it is now a fond memory and not a stressful one.
1:27.4	This is officially the food and and not a stressful one.
1:31.9	This is officially the food and friendship episode of your last meal.
1:33.6	Ooh, it makes me feel so cozy.
1:39.1	You will meet a pair of best friends that are forever bonded through one particular dish.
1:45.8	28 years ago, Michelle Didion and Joelle Nol forged a friendship over their love of Beef Stroganoff,
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