Dan Harris: Butter & Truffle Fettuccini + Warm Sugar Cookies
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Dan Harris is Type A, self-help skeptical and looks the part of a TV anchorman. But he recently quit his 20 year career at ABC News to fully embrace his side hustle: convincing Americans to meditate. Dan wrote a memoir, 10% Happier, about his unlikely journey to mindfulness, that has since expanded into a podcast and meditation app.
Dan loves sweets, specifically cookies, and even more specifically, warm cookies delivered by Insomnia Cookies. Host Rachel Belle speaks with Insomnia's founder and CEO, who started the company nearly 20 years ago when he was a 20 year old living in a college dorm room.
And we'll do some cookie detective work: what's going on when a batch of cookies spread in the oven or come out dry and cakey? Cookbook author and host of Zoe Bakes, Zoë François, joins the show to troubleshoot the most common cookie baking mistakes and shares how she became a professional baker after growing up in communes and cults that forbade sugar.
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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 | I'm Rachel Dell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most. |
| 0:31.6 | Today on the program, Dan Harris. |
| 0:34.1 | Was I supposed to prepare for this? |
| 0:35.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.9 | Dan recently retired from ABC News, where he spent |
| 0:39.8 | more than 20 years as a reporter, anchor for Nightline, and co-anchor of the weekend edition of Good |
| 0:45.2 | Morning America. But I was introduced to Dan through his first book, 10% Happier. It's a memoir about |
| 0:51.5 | how he, a scoffing skeptic, accidentally changed his entire life |
| 0:55.9 | with meditation. It's actually one of my favorite books of all time, and I don't even meditate, |
| 1:01.0 | but I want to. I'm going to meditate. I'm going to do it tomorrow. Maybe. Dan has since written a |
| 1:05.7 | second book. He hosts the 10% Happier podcast, and he launched a 10% Happier Meditation app. |
| 1:11.9 | And Dan loves cookies, specifically insomnia cookies that are delivered warm to your door. |
| 1:18.1 | I'll chat with founder and CEO Seth Berkowitz, who started the business when he was just 20 years old. |
| 1:23.6 | Starting a business in college has so many benefits, probably the least risky time of life. |
| 1:28.5 | And do your cookies come out cakey, dry? Do they spread when you bake them? Longtime baker Zoe Francois, host of the TV show Zoe Bakes, and author of many cookbooks, including Zoe Bakes Cakes, joins the show to troubleshoot. And we'll learn a bit about her fascinating life. |
| 1:43.7 | I grew up on communes and |
| 1:46.5 | lived in cults and grew up with no sugar. But first, my conversation with Dan Harris. |
| 1:57.0 | I am personally very excited to have you on because I have been a big fan of both of your books. |
| 2:02.1 | And it's funny because I am very big on proper lending practices for books. |
| 2:08.5 | Like I expect people to return mine and I always return theirs. |
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