Maeve Higgins, Fish Pie and Irish Butter

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Top o' the mornin' to ya! On this Emerald Isle themed episode of Your Last Meal, Rachel talks to Irish comedian and writer Maeve Higgins about why Irish butter is better, the food that confused her most at her first American Thanksgiving, and of course - her last meal!

You'll get the history of the fish pie from Ireland's Michelin starred chef and food columnist JP McMahon.

We also have a butter battle with Brian Cleer, marketing director for Kerrygold North America and Stella Parks, Senior Editor at "Serious Eats" and author of the James Beard Award-winning cookbook "BraveTart." Is European butter really superior or is store brand American butter just as good?

Then, Rachel talks about one of the biggest Christmas traditions in Japan - getting a bucket of KFC fried chicken - with KFC Japan's Yuko Nakajima.

All that... and why a single gal at a party should always stand by a crock pot full of Lil Smokies.

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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. I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal. A show about famous people and the stories
0:29.2	behind the foods they love most. Today on the program, comedian and writer Maeve Higgins.
0:35.5	Maeve is a proper, butter-loving Irish lady who moved to New York six years ago.
0:40.7	And she recently wrote a book about it.
0:42.6	Her new book is called Mave in America, which also happens to be the name of her podcast.
0:48.1	Maeve is a contributing writer for The New York Times.
0:50.5	She co-hosts a weekly comedy show in Brooklyn.
0:52.5	And Glamour Magazine says, quote, if Tina Faye and David Sideris had a daughter, she would be Maeve Higgins.
1:00.7	Your level looks good.
1:01.8	I'm recording right now.
1:03.0	So let's get started.
1:04.7	Hopefully you can fix my accent in post.
1:07.6	So yeah, how do people react to your accent?
1:09.9	Because I know, you know, women are always talking about like men with their sexy Irish accents or Australian accents.
1:15.8	Does that work the same for women?
1:17.8	I have never gotten that.
1:19.1	No, definitely not.
1:20.0	I mean, you know, sometimes people are like, oh, you remind me of my dad who died.
1:23.9	But apart.
1:26.4	Nobody's ever like,
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