Laura Prepon, Mussels

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Actor Laura Prepon (That 70s Show, Orange is the New Black) is the mother of two tiny children and just released a book called You and I, as Mothers: A Raw and Honest Guide to Motherhood. But in her conversation with host Rachel Belle she opens up about her own mother, who was a serious, eccentric home cook who also taught Laura how to have an eating disorder.

Laura's last meal is a dish she grew up eating at her family's east coast vacation home and a meal she hasn't enjoyed in years because she's either been pregnant or breast feeding.

In honor of Laura's role as Alex, a federal prison inmate on the TV show Orange is the New Black, we revisit a 2016 interview Rachel did with the late rapper Prodigy, who passed away from complications due to sickle cell anemia in 2017. Prodigy wrote a book called Commissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook, featuring recipes he cooked while locked up at various New York state jails. He reveals how inmates procured various ingredients and where they whipped up the sodium dense dishes that created a rare and much welcomed comradery among prisoners.

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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.
0:28.0	A show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.
0:31.8	Today on the program, actor Laura Prypon.
0:34.9	Laura's big break was playing Donna on that 70s show.
0:38.2	She starred in Orange is the New Black,
0:40.0	and she has a brand new book out just in time for Mother's Day called You and I as
0:44.4	Mothers, a feel-good, live well, stay-connected guide for moms.
0:49.2	Now, Laura has a new baby and a toddler,
0:52.0	but we're going to talk a lot about her mom, who was obsessed with cooking and sometimes
0:57.1	called her kids down to dinner in the middle of the night.
1:00.0	Often we would wake up around midnight or one in the morning, and we would stumble into the
1:05.1	kitchen, glary-eyed, and she would have this beautiful spread out for us.
1:10.2	And in honor of Laura's role in the TV show, Orange is the New Black,
1:13.8	I revisit my 2016 interview with the late rapper Prodigy,
1:18.0	who wrote a cookbook featuring recipes that he learned to make while he was in prison.
1:22.1	We would definitely still like little packets of salt and pepper and butters from the child.
1:28.6	And we would use it when we actually had time to make our own food.
1:32.6	But first, my conversation with Laura Prypon.
1:40.9	Let's start where it always has to start with childhood.
1:43.3	I understand that you had the life that people dream of. No rules, wild childhood.
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