Bethany Cosentino, The Cheesecake Factory's Mac & Cheese & Caesar Salad
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The affection that Best Coast's singer, songwriter and guitarist, Bethany Cosentino, has for suburban chain restaurants is not ironic. A musician who's (almost) always on the road (thanks, quarantine), she finds it comforting to experience the same decor, menu and flavors no matter what city she's in.
Bethany's favorite chain of all is The Cheesecake Factory, so host Rachel Belle chats with chief culinary officer and executive Vice President, Donald Moore, about how the restaurant's menu expanded from a small cafe in 1978 to the mammoth 250 item, 21 page tome we know today. He shares behind-the-scenes R&D secrets, like how simply tweaking the name of a burger can make it a best seller, and reminisces over dishes he loved and painstakingly developed...but nobody ordered.
Bethany and Rachel also dive into The Internet's favorite topics: cats and pizza! Treat yourself to Best Coast's wonderful new album, Almost Tomorrow and support artists!
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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. |
| 0:11.6 | If you're too cool for Cheesecake Factory, you are not for me. |
| 0:17.0 | It's my new slogan. |
| 0:35.7 | I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most. |
| 0:42.9 | Today on the program, Bethany Costantino, singer, songwriter, and guitarist in the band, Best Coast. |
| 0:55.6 | Bethany says she usually eats pretty healthfully. |
| 1:00.6 | She was a vegan after all for many years, but she loves chain restaurants. |
| 1:03.2 | She says she finds them comforting and calming. |
| 1:07.7 | But she won't be hitting up a dominoes or a pizza hut anytime soon. |
| 1:09.1 | I don't really like pizza. |
| 1:10.2 | What does that mean? |
| 1:11.1 | Controversial. Bethany's last meal is the cheesecake factory. I don't really like pizza. What does that mean? Controversial. |
| 1:14.4 | Bethany's last meal is the cheesecake factory. |
| 1:16.2 | I feel like I'm supposed to come in with some like, |
| 1:17.5 | meo, neow, meow, meow. |
| 1:21.5 | I have only been to the cheesecake factory twice. |
| 1:26.2 | It has been maybe, I don't know, seven or eight years since I've been. |
| 1:31.2 | And I've always lumped them in with all the other suburban chain restaurants whose slogans and commercials are just permanently cemented into my brain. |
| 1:34.9 | I want my baby back, baby back, baby back. |
| 1:37.2 | I want my baby back. |
| 1:39.1 | And then what else? |
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