Betsey Johnson: Smoked salmon with capers and plenty of lime
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Betsey Johnson has been a fashion designer since the 1960s and her clothes are just as colorful and vivacious as the true stories in her new book, Betsey, A Memoir. From her courthouse wedding to the Velvet Underground's John Cale to years of eating nothing but Red Vines and almonds, she is the most free spirited, joyful, foul mouthed punk rock grandma the world did ever see.
Betsey is teeming with creativity, but she has no interest in channeling it into cooking. A true creature of habit, she eats the same thing, day in and day out, and prefers to dine at a restaurant each night. She's been in the habit of eating salmon two meals a day, so host Rachel Belle checked in with the world famous Pike Place Fish Market, where they sell schools of salmon and famously throw fish to the delight of a pre-quarantined cheering crowd.
Perhaps the most infamous intersection of fashion and food is the raw meat dress Lady Gaga wore to the 2010 MTV VMAs. The dress's creator, creative director Franc Fernandez, joins the show to share what cut of meat makes the best dress and how it was later preserved for eternity.
Buy Betsey's memoir! Order sustainable fish with next day delivery from Pike Place Fish Market!
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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 | Cairo, Seattle. I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal. |
| 0:27.6 | A show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most. |
| 0:31.6 | Today on the program, iconic fashion designer Betsy Johnson. |
| 0:36.3 | Betsy has been designing clothes since the 1960s, and she's still super relevant. |
| 0:41.0 | Going strong with her brand at 77 years old. |
| 0:44.4 | She also has a new book out called Betsy, a memoir. |
| 0:47.8 | And talking to Betsy is like talking to the spunkiest, chattyest, foul-mouthed grandma. |
| 0:53.2 | She's sweet and smiley under her signature blonde fringe, and she swears like a sailor. |
| 0:58.5 | Betsy grew up dancing and cheerleading. |
| 1:01.1 | She was really serious about dance and wanted to be a rockhead. |
| 1:04.1 | So for decades, she's ended every runway show with a cartwheel and the splits. |
| 1:09.6 | My dancing school shit was really my main inspiration, the hair and makeup and the |
| 1:15.8 | costumes and the sparkles and being born a Leo and like in color and all that shit. |
| 1:21.0 | So a little behind the scenes, guys, I was in the newsroom with producer Laura and I was saying |
| 1:25.7 | I want for this episode a guest that is the |
| 1:28.9 | perfect collision of food and fashion and she was joking and just said oh why don't you get |
| 1:33.8 | Lady Gaga on to talk about her meat dress and I was like yeah totally I'll just get Lady Gaga on |
| 1:38.6 | but the joke turned into a sort of reality coming, I chat with the dress's designer and creator, |
| 1:45.0 | Frank Fernandez. And second to the space needle, Pike Place Market is probably the most iconic |
| 1:50.7 | place in Seattle. And within that market is the Pike Place Fish Market, where the fishmongers |
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