Lindy West: Smorkage and a Six Course Seattle Feast

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Lindy West is a New York Times best-selling author, including the book Shrill, which was turned into a TV show.

Lindy details a six course last meal feast that features smorkage, a flaky, buttery, custardy Danish pastry only available at a single bakery in the United States. Host Rachel Belle travels to Seattle's Larsen's Bakery to taste the impossible-to-pronounce Danish pastry.

Lindy, a self-described "fat" person, talks about what it's like to eat in public, why she grudgingly orders honeydew, and shares a humiliating story that involves a personal pan pepperoni pizza and an episode of This American Life.

Then things get "hygge!" The Scandinavian concept of coziness, comfortable conviviality, and contentment. Rachel chats with Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, and food anthropologist Signe Johansen.

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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.
0:24.9	I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal.
0:28.6	A show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.
0:32.5	Today on the program, writer and activist Lindy West.
0:35.7	Lindy is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.
0:39.1	She's the author of the truly fantastic book, Shrill,
0:40.4	notes from a loud woman.
0:42.4	She's also very hilarious,
0:45.5	and she chose a very hard-to-pron pastry for part of her last meal,
0:47.3	which we try and pronounce before the interview started.
0:49.9	Smorkaka.
0:50.8	I think that was good.
0:52.4	Really?
0:52.6	Wait, let's listen to it one more time.
0:53.9	Okay.
0:54.1	Before I say it one more time. Okay.
0:55.6	Before I say it on the air.
0:57.8	Smurkake.
0:59.9	Smurkake.
1:00.9	That's really good.
1:02.7	You have to be real slow.
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