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Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Live Show! Mark & Brian Canlis: Caprese Salad & Din Tai Fung Xiao Long Bao

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

Music Interviews, Arts, Food, Comedy Interviews, Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Comedy, Music, Science, History

4.4709 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Belle hosted the very first Your Last Meal *LIVE* at Crosscut Festival! She was joined by brothers Mark and Brian Canlis, third generation owners of Seattle's 70-year-old fine dining institution, Canlis. The Canlis brothers just hired a new executive chef, only the 7th in the restaurant's history, and they share the quirky and unconventional application process they used to help weed out a leader without ego, who isn't afraid to be vulnerable.

Canlis' doors have been closed over the past 15 months, but they've gained international attention for their ingenuity, launching 18 different pandemic culinary concepts that sold out one after the next: everything from a parking lot crab shack to the virtual learning platform, Canlis Community College. And Brian reveals his Secret Shame Food, a concoction that made his wife think twice about marrying him.

Then Chinese Soul Food cookbook author, and maker of a million dumplings, Hsiao-Ching Chou joins us to talk xiao long bao, otherwise known as Chinese soup dumplings.

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Transcript

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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.

0:11.6

Cairo, Seattle. Oh, hi, it's me. It's Rachel Bell.

0:26.3

And this is the very first live edition of your last meal, which I always imagine there would be thunderous applause.

0:32.7

But since this is virtual, I'm going to announce this, and then we're going to just have awkward silence like this

0:38.4

for just a minute. Thanks so much to Crosscut Festival for having us. And when I say us, I guess I mean

0:44.2

me, but it makes me sound more important to say us. Let me just explain the show a little bit because

0:49.0

I know there are people who've never heard it or people who don't live in the area. So on each

0:53.6

episode of your last meal,

0:54.7

I interview a celebrity about their last meal. So past guests include John Waters and

1:00.0

Greta Gerwig, Mayambiolic, Ben and Jerry, Neil DeGrasse Tyson. And then I dig into the science,

1:05.8

the culture, and the history of that dish that they choose with experts from around the world.

1:10.5

So today's guest are the

1:12.4

third generation owners of Canlis, a James Beard Award-winning fine dining institution in Seattle

1:17.7

that opened in 1950. It was more recently than 1950, described by the New York Times as

1:23.3

Seattle's fanciest, finest restaurant, introducing brothers Mark and Brian Canlis.

1:30.5

And then later in the show, like I mentioned, we will dig into one of their meals.

1:34.7

So I will welcome Seattle cookbook author.

1:36.9

And if I may, call her this dumpling queen, Shao Ching Chao to the show.

1:41.6

So she's going to be with us later.

1:43.0

And I just want to remind everybody who's watching that we're going to do a Q&A at the end.

1:47.5

So at any time when you have a burning question, just write it in the chat.

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