Guy Branum, His Mom's Peach Cobbler
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Comedian and writer Guy Branum (Chelsea Lately, The Mindy Project) grew up on an almond farm in the northern California farming community of Yuba City, where he was forced to hunt pheasant with his dad and ate a steady diet of dishes his mom plucked from the trusty church cookbook.
The centerpiece of Guy's last meal is his mom's juicy, cakey peach cobbler, a fairly untraditional recipe that he loves so much he included it in his (decidedly not food focused) memoir, My Life As A Goddess. But what is a cobbler versus a crisp versus a buckle versus a brown Betty? Seattle pastry chef, and lifelong baker, Brittany Bardeleben (Dahlia Lounge, Dahlia Bakery) enlightens us.
Guys home town, Yuba City, CA, is the prune capitol of the world! But how did the innocent little dried plum get its not-so-savory association to grannies and staying regular? I consult the California Prune Board and food writer, and Big Time Prune Lover, Gabriella Gershenson, who urges you to give prunes a chance.
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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 |
| 0:29.5 | behind the foods they love most. Today on the program, comedian Guy Branum. Guy was a regular |
| 0:35.1 | on Chelsea Lately and The Mindy Project. He hosts True TV's Talk Show, |
| 0:39.6 | The Game Show, and he has a new book of essays called My Life as a Goddess. Guy also grew up |
| 0:45.4 | in a family of hunters. When I was in kindergarten or first grade, somebody brought in cookies |
| 0:51.3 | for their birthday that had like, are they called dragays on them? |
| 0:55.4 | The little metal ball things that are made of sugar. |
| 0:58.3 | Yeah, those big silver sprinkles. |
| 1:00.2 | Yes. |
| 1:00.7 | And so I went to the teacher and alerted her that there was birdshot on the cookies |
| 1:06.5 | and that somebody was going to choke. |
| 1:08.3 | And it was like so dumb that I assumed some parent had put birdshot on cookies. |
| 1:14.7 | I've never heard the birdshot. |
| 1:16.2 | Is that what you call the bullet? |
| 1:17.4 | Clearly, I did not grow up in a family of hunters. |
| 1:20.1 | I don't know what he's talking about. |
| 1:22.4 | For his last meal, Guy wants his mom's peach cobbler for dessert. |
| 1:26.1 | But it's not a cobbler recipe that I'm familiar with. |
| 1:28.4 | So Seattle pastry chef, Brittany Bartolabin, stops by to school us on all manner of fruit baked with dough. |
| 1:35.4 | So here's the thing. |
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