Hannah Berner: Nana's Eggplant Parmesan

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In this spirited interview with host Rachel Belle, comedian Hannah Berner realizes her true calling: talking excitedly about how much she loves to eat! And she has what many of us dream of, a spunky Italian grandmother who cooks up a big pot of sauce every Sunday, has a pantry full of pasta, and feeds her family plate after plate of Italian-American food until they're unbuttoning their pants at the table.

Nana Vera joins the show to tell us how she makes her famous eggplant parmesan, and shares an old Italian wives' tale about why it's always important to salt your eggplant before cooking.

Hannah went to college in Wisconsin, where it's perfectly normal for a Bloody Mary to hit the table garnished with a fragrant bouquet of hamburgers, corn dogs and egg rolls. Rachel chats with the owner of Milwaukee's Sobelman's Pub and Grill, who believes he was the one who started this deliciously gimmicky national trend.

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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 behind the foods they love most.
0:31.9	Today on the program, comedian Hannah Burner.
0:35.1	Wow. Who knew how much I love to talk about food?
0:38.5	Canada's stand-up, she hosts two podcasts, Giggly Squad, and Burning in Hell, and she was on the Bravo
0:44.5	reality show Summer House for three seasons.
0:47.8	Hannah grew up in New York City, in a big bowl of spaghetti with a bunch of meatballs, which is
0:53.2	apparently how I'm going to describe
0:54.7	her big Italian family, including her beloved 81-year-old Nana. Nana Vera is going to join us
1:00.6	later on the show to share her recipes for Hannah's last meal. Do you know that I was on because of
1:06.7	her? I was on Good Morning America. I did not know that. And now she can say she was on your last meal.
1:13.2	Critics say were like the Good Morning America of podcasts. And finally, if you love Bloody Mary's,
1:18.4	you know they're really just a vehicle for all the crunchy, snacky stuff that is stuffed inside of them.
1:23.9	But Sobomen's Pub and Grill in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, takes it to the next level.
1:28.7	You'll meet the man who is pretty sure that he invented the trend of the over-the-top, wildly
1:33.9	garnished Bloody Mary. So you started garnishing the Bloody Mary with an entire three-pound chicken?
1:40.7	Yeah. All of this coming up, but first, my conversation with Hannah Burner. Yeah. All of this coming up, but first, my conversation with Hannah Burner.
1:51.4	I love that you have a New York accent.
1:54.6	You probably can't hear it because accents are fading.
1:58.0	I read this article in the New York Times a few years ago that was talking about the fact that regional accents are starting to go away because people move around so much. And my family's from New York. And so I was just like, oh, somebody who's not 60 who has a New York accent.
2:11.6	I got that's so funny because yeah, my grandparents have the thickest accent. My husband actually has the most thick queen's accent.
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