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I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal.

A show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.

Today on the program, co-host of the popular political podcast, Pod Save America.

And this is fancy.

He was the former senior advisor to President Barack Obama. Dan Fyfer. Dan has a brand new book out called Yes, We Still Can, Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump.

And it's really good. I'm reading it right now. I have to admit, I am not a super political person.

And getting ready to read this book, I felt like I was setting myself up for failure that I wasn't going to understand what it was about.

But I get it, Dan.

Dan is a very good writer.

He's a good storyteller.

And it's not as much about the political X's and O's as it is, kind of an insider's look inside the Obama White House.

And a look at how social media and media

communication has changed since the Trump administration began. But this isn't a political podcast.

This is a food podcast and a food history podcast. So coming up, Dan is going to talk about what it was

like eating inside the White House, which is something he did for at least

two meals a day for six years. And then we'll crack into the history of a food that Dan and I

are equally in love with, Dim Sum. I chat with Hong Kong-based food writer and Goldthread

senior reporter Clarissa Way about delicious dumplings. And she explains why the fun, roly dim sum carts are the

inferior way to eat dumplings. Over the years, that has really gone out of vogue, and that's

gone out of fashion even here in Hong Kong. But first, my conversation with Dan Pfeiffer.

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