Heather McMahan: Steak House Side Dishes

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

After years of living in New York City and Los Angeles, the pandemic brought
comedian Heather McMahan back to her hometown of Atlanta, where she’s living
in her childhood home with her husband and ... her mother! If it sounds like a
sitcom, well, she’s working on that script right now.

Atlanta is home to Buford Highway, an off-the-beaten-path culinary wonderland
featuring 100 immigrant-owned restaurants, representing more than 20
countries.

Atlanta-based Food & Wine senior writer Jennifer Zyman joins the show to share
the history and highlights of Buford Highway, like Plaza Fiesta, a huge Mexican
marketplace where you can taste the latest Mexican TikTok trends.

And Heather and I chat about her huge, elaborate, Italian wedding cake and the
tradition of assembling it in front of guests at the reception.

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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.
0:20.0	I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal.
0:23.4	The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most, and we dig into
0:27.8	the history, culture, and science of those meals with experts from around the world.
0:31.9	Today on the program, comedian Heather McMahon.
0:35.7	I get told all the time now, people say, like, my physicality on stage is like I'm Chris Farley's sister, and that is the biggest compliment to me.
0:42.6	Heather is heading out on tour this weekend, doing stand-up across the country through November.
0:47.6	We talk about the elaborate Italian cake she served at her wild Italian wedding, and what she likes to eat now that she's back to living
0:54.9	in her hometown of Atlanta. I know nothing about the Atlanta food scene. So Atlanta-based
1:00.1	food writer Jennifer Zeman joins the show to tell us all about Beaufort Highway, one of the most
1:06.1	diverse dining destinations in the country. That is coming up later in the show, but right now,
1:12.0	here's my conversation with Heather McMahon. When Heather and I spoke, she had just
1:19.5	gotten home from tour, but she only had a 12-hour break before she had to head back out on the
1:24.8	road again. Her top priority was going to the chiropractor.
1:32.2	But of course, I wanted to know what does somebody eat when they have a 12-hour break and they're back home in their own kitchen?
1:35.1	Okay, so I tried to get, like, be really healthy because eating on the road is just you're an animal.
1:40.1	You're lucky if you're eating tacos or pizza at 1 a.m. after a late comedy show. When I'm home,
1:46.1	I like to have like 24 hours of health and wellness. It never ends up being that way.
1:50.5	No. I'm going to order Chick-fil-A on DoorDash because I'm in a medically induced coma and don't want to
1:54.9	leave my house or Chipotle or something gross. I eat worse when I'm home for 12 hours than when I'm on the road. Her new stand-up show is called The Comeback Tour. The theme of this tour is, I'm back from the honeymoon.
2:06.6	So I'm coming up on my one-year anniversary of this big avant-garde over-the-top Italian wedding that I had in Florence.
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