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Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Graham Elliot, Scrapple

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

Music Interviews, Arts, Food, Comedy Interviews, Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Comedy, Music, Science, History

4.4709 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Chef Graham Elliot has a knack for creating delicious, wacky, highly Instagrammable dishes that are as effervescent as his big, bubbly personality. His lobster corn dogs are adored by Eminem, Rihanna and Dave Grohl and YLM host Rachel Belle is a big fan of his foie gras lollipops rolled in Pop Rocks. But for his last meal? Graham craves a humble, breakfast table staple that he grew up eating in his grandparent's home state of Maryland: scrapple!

Rachel Belle welcomes William Woys Weaver, author of Country Scrapple: An American Tradition to the show to answer the age old question: what exactly is scrapple? And Mike Rassmussen, owner of Painted Stave Distillery in Smyrna, Delaware, tells us how and why he created his uber popular scrapple vodka.

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

0:31.9

Today on the program, Chef Graham Elliott.

0:35.1

Graham owns a couple of restaurants.

0:37.0

He's earned Michelin stars and James

0:38.7

Beard nominations, and you probably know his face from TV. He's the guy who's always wearing

0:43.7

the glasses with the white plastic frames. He's a judge on Top Chef and ABC's Family Food Fight,

0:49.9

and he was a judge and host of Master Chef and Master Chef Jr. for 10 seasons.

0:59.7

But at his very core, Graham is still a cook, a very creative cook.

1:05.0

We met back in August at Fayetteville Roots Festival, which is a food and music festival in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

1:12.1

And his foie gras lollipops rolled in pop rocks were probably the highlight of the entire weekend.

1:16.4

My friend Sterling, who I was at the event with, he is not a super, super food person,

1:18.5

and he had to be convinced to try one.

1:21.6

And he took one bite, and his eyes just opened wide.

1:23.5

And he said, this is genius.

1:25.9

And I never use words genius.

1:46.1

So we gave his five-year-old son a foie gras lollipop with pop rocks, which he promptly licked off all the pop rocks, gave the rest of it back, said it was disgusting, and was on his way. So sorry Graham Elliott. You can't please everybody. Graham was also culinary director of Lollapalooza for nearly a decade, and one musician in particular fell in love with his lobster corn dogs. But he came up to me, he's like, you know,

1:52.0

yeah, it was like the first time I had lobster. It was like, really cool. Well, great. In case you

1:57.8

couldn't decipher Graham's spot-on celebrity impersonation,

2:02.1

the lobster-loving celeb will be revealed later in the show.

2:05.6

Also coming up, we're going to talk about the history of Scrapple

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