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

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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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 Isaac Mizrahi has it all: humor, heart and hot takes on the culinary world. He knows what he likes (Long Island beefsteak tomatoes) and what he doesn't like (calling lemon juice "acid") and he shares it all with James Beard Award nominated host, Rachel Belle.

When Isaac sends Rachel on a mission to uncover a mint chocolate chip ice cream mystery, she summons Ben & Jerry's flavor guru, Eric Fredette, who's responsible for creating flavors like The Tonight Dough and Brownie Batter Core, Heather Hodge, head chef at Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream in Seattle, and Nestle's test kitchen manager, Meredith Tomason. Nestle invented the chocolate chip back in the 1940s and Meredith shares the history of the legendary Toll House chocolate chip cookie.

Months after this episode originally aired, Rachel and Isaac met up in Isaac's Manhattan kitchen to cook together. You can watch those videos here!

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.
0:05.6	Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show.
0:11.6	Cairo, Seattle. I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.
0:32.2	Today on the program, fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi.
0:36.1	Isaac started selling his designs at high-end New York City boutiques when he was just 15 years old.
0:42.4	He officially launched his brand in 1987 and quickly became one of the biggest names in American fashion.
0:49.6	Isaac released a charming book last year called I Am a memoir that I just absolutely gobbled up in a
0:56.0	handful of days. And speaking of gobbling up, Isaac loves food and cooking, but he will always
1:02.2	choose something classic over something trendy. She also just makes like, you know, wonderful sort
1:07.6	of newfangled muffin ideas, because nothing is a muffin anymore by the way it always
1:12.7	has to be like some hybrid between a muffin and a scuffin and a muffin and a shuffin and a right
1:17.8	I was going to say what's a muffin idea oh you know what I'm talking about you're not right
1:24.0	so you don't know what I'm talking about they They don't make the plain old bake goods anymore.
1:28.1	Like it's a quassini. Right. Totally.
1:30.2	It's a croissant. Quacinta. It's not a croissant. You see what I mean?
1:34.0	Which is also your psychics name, quacinta. Right. Exactly. Boom. he also has a second home in Bridge Hampton, Long Island, which is where he sources most of the
1:45.2	produce for his last meal. And while discussing his last meal, Isaac sent me on a mission to uncover
1:51.2	a culinary mystery that no one has been able to solve for him. Now, I can't take too much credit
1:56.4	because I consulted with three experts to solve this mystery. I spoke with top ice cream scientists over at Ben and Jerry's headquarters
2:03.7	and at Molly Moon's homemade ice cream in Seattle.
2:07.4	And I even checked in with the kitchen manager at Nestle for good measure.
2:11.4	And I was handsomely rewarded for all of my efforts.
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