Gaby Dalkin: Carne Asada Tacos

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Best known to her millions of followers as What’s Gaby Cooking, the Los Angeles-area chef is a best-selling cookbook author, creator of the Dalkin & Co spice blend line and you can eat her food at Gaby’s in Neighborly food hall.

Gaby tells Rachel Belle how she went from being a tragically picky eater to having a career as a chef, shares which celebrity she private cheffed for, and the dish that literally broke her website when said celebrity gushed over it on a late-night talk show.

Gaby wants to cook and enjoy her last meal in the Sonora region of Mexico, so Rachel interviews the owner of Caramelo, an artisan, Sonoran-style tortilla maker out of Lawrence, Kansas. Yes, Kansas! And Rachel swears there are no better tortillas in America!

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to offer nonstop flights from Seattle to Tokyo and Seattle to Seoul.
0:07.4	Go to Alaska Airlines.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and book your trip today.
0:24.2	I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal. The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most, and we dig into
0:28.6	the history, culture, or science of those meals with experts from around the world.
0:33.7	Today on the program, Gobi Dalkin, who is best known to her millions of followers as
0:39.9	What's Gopi Cooking?
0:41.5	Gobi is a best-selling cookbook author and chef.
0:43.9	She has a line of spice blends called Dalkin and Co.
0:46.7	And without doing any cooking, you can taste her California-style cuisine at Gobbies in neighborly
0:52.9	food hall in Westlake Village, California.
0:55.7	Questlove also has a food stall there.
0:58.2	Gobi loves Sonoran-style Mexican food, so I jumped at the chance to interview the owner of
1:03.7	Caramello, a Sonoran-style tortilla maker who makes the best flour tortillas I have ever
1:09.2	bought.
1:10.1	That's coming up later in the show.
1:12.0	But first, my conversation with Gobi Dalkin.
1:21.3	You were a picky eater growing up?
1:24.2	The pickiest.
1:25.3	I was the pickiest eater growing up.
1:26.7	I ate grilled cheese and buttered noodles
1:28.0	until I was like 17 years old. And that is not an exaggeration. So how did you get into cooking
1:34.4	and end up going to culinary school? I got into cooking. I mean, I started being interested in it
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