Bridgerton's Julia Quinn: Sushi & Ice Cream
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Julia Quinn is a New York Times bestselling author 19 times over, but a whole new audience has been introduced to her work since her popular Bridgerton romance novels were turned into a fantastically popular Netflix show.
Julia doesn't write much about food in her Regency Era novels, so host Rachel Belle called on Paul Couchman, a food historian known as “The Regency Chef,” who offers Regency Era cooking classes at The Regency Town House, a restored 1820s mansion in Brighton, England. He indulges us in what the Bridgerton family would have eaten and says vintage British cuisine was far bolder and spicier than it is now.
Seattle might be famous for salmon and Starbucks, but with nine months of gray and rain, locals (including Julia Quinn & family) are in love with pho, the aromatic Vietnamese beef and noodle soup. Rachel chats with former Washington state governor Dan Evans and the owners of Seattle's first pho restaurant, Pho Bac, about why there are so many pho shops in Seattle.
And Julia once won $79,000 on the game show The Weakest Link, so Rachel challenges her to a round of food trivia!
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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. |
| 0:31.9 | Today on the program, Julia Quinn, best-selling author of dozens of historical romance novels, including the Bridgerton series, |
| 0:40.7 | which was recently turned into a fantastically popular Netflix show produced by Shonda Rhymes. |
| 0:46.1 | There's all of these foods that are associated with romance chocolate and people talk about these |
| 0:50.9 | aphrodisiac foods like oysters. Do you believe in that? No, I'm so lame. |
| 0:56.9 | I'm like the least, like romantic romance writer you probably ever meet. Bridgeton is set in |
| 1:01.9 | England's Regency era, a period spanning from 1811 to 1820, which is the same era Jane Austen's |
| 1:09.2 | most popular books came out. |
| 1:14.1 | But there is very little mention of food in the Bridgerton books. |
| 1:19.5 | So I called on Paul Couchman, a food historian who calls himself the Regency Chef. |
| 1:24.1 | He offers Regency era cooking classes and catering at the Regency Townhouse, |
| 1:27.3 | a restored 1820s mansion in Brighton, England. And back on this side of the pond, |
| 1:29.4 | when you think of a classic Seattle food, you might think of salmon. But to many, including me, |
| 1:36.8 | Fah is the city's signature dish. I chat with former Washington Governor Dan Evans and the co-owners |
| 1:42.9 | of Fah Bach, the city's first Fah shop, |
| 1:46.1 | about how Fah became ubiquitous in Seattle. |
| 1:49.0 | If you go around Seattle, every block has a Fah shop. |
| 1:52.0 | It's like a Starbucks. |
| 1:53.3 | You know, Seattle would know for coffee. |
| 1:55.0 | Seattle wouldn't know for Fah. |
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