Jesse Sandoval: Paella

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Former drummer of The Shins, and current hatch green chile impresario, Jesse Sandoval joins host Rache Belle to discuss bringing New Mexico's much-loved pepper to the masses, the band's fallout with fans after "selling-out" in a McDonald's ad, and with which Golden Girl would Jesse most like to eat cheesecake with.

We learn about Jesse's last meal with 3rd-generation Valencian paella chef Perfecte Rocher (who LA Weekly called the best paella chef in Los Angeles), and we get the history of saffron - a key ingredient in the dish and one of the most expensive spices on Earth!

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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.
0:10.8	This is your last meal.
0:24.0	I'm your host, Rachel Bell.
0:25.1	In every episode, I interview a celebrity about what they would want to eat for their last meal.
0:29.5	And then we explored the history of that food, the culture, whatever else we can cram into 30 minutes.
0:35.2	Today on the program,
0:37.4	Godspeed, all the bakers are dawn. into 30 minutes. Today on the program.
0:45.7	Jesse Sandoval, former drummer of the indie rock band The Shins.
0:55.7	Now, I say former because in 2009, after two hugely successful albums and having their music popularized by the film Garden State, the lead singer of the shins, James Mercer, pretty much
1:00.2	fired the entire band.
1:02.9	So Jesse had to come up with something new to do.
1:05.7	I guess there were three parts that I loved was music, food, and coaching basketball. In the end, Jesse chose food. Jesse's from
1:15.8	New Mexico. He loves hatch green chili. He loves Sopapiaz. So he opened a New Mexican food cart in
1:21.6	Portland because everybody in Portland opens a food cart. But then he moved beyond the cart.
1:26.6	Him and his friend built a chili roaster,
1:28.9	and they started roasting their own green chili.
1:31.0	And eventually, they shut down the food cart to focus on that.
1:34.3	Your product is called Loose Roast.
1:36.1	Loose Roaster, Mexican Green Chili, yeah.
1:37.9	And so is this, I saw it actually in a natural food store when I was in Port Townsend.
1:42.3	Is it just the pure roasted hatch chili?
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