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Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Martina McBride: Mom's Pot Roast & Fluff Salad

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

🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Country music star, Martina McBride, has won 15 major music awards, sold more than 23 million albums, written two cookbooks and has a brand new exhibit in Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame Museum. But her roots are in a small, Kansas farm town where she grew up eating plenty of canned vegetables and ground beef with her musical family.

You know what other musically gifted gal grew up on a farm in Kansas? Dorothy, from the Wizard of Oz! We take a trip down the Yellow Brick Road with William Stillman, author of The Road To Oz, who shares both the fun and unfortunate food facts behind the most watched film of all time.

After Martina tells host Rachel Belle about Fluff Salad, where Cool Whip is a salad dressing, we needed to know: what defines a salad?? Meggan Hill, creator and executive chef of Culinary Hill, a midwestern recipe website, explains how popcorn salad, Snickers salad and cookie salad are all...salads.

A couple of years ago we did an episode all about the tomato sandwich, but have you ever had a banana sandwich? North Carolina food writer Sheri Castle says in some parts of the south, it's more common than peanut butter and jelly.

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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

I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal,

0:27.1

a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.

0:31.1

Today on the program, Grammy-nominated country music artist, Martina McBride.

0:36.4

And with the broken way, she still sings, she keeps an eye over the sky.

0:49.2

Martina has won 15 major music awards, sold more than 23 million albums.

0:54.9

She's performed for 30 years, and now she's being honored with an exhibit at the

0:59.6

Country Music Hall of Fame Museum.

1:01.9

Martina also had a cooking show on the Food Network and has released two cookbooks full of recipes

1:06.9

that she developed and tested herself.

1:09.7

And she's not the only country star to write a cookbook.

1:12.3

Tricia Yearwood, Zach Brown, Dali Parton, Alan Jackson, Loretta Lynn, and the list goes on.

1:18.5

Why do you think so many people who've been entertainers for so long are turning into, I guess,

1:23.1

food entertainers? I think a lot of country artists grew up with family dinner in rural America where there's

1:30.7

not a lot of restaurants.

1:31.9

I mean, we never went to a restaurant when I was growing up.

1:34.7

You know, we grew up sitting down to dinner every night with our family.

1:37.9

So maybe that's it.

1:38.8

We will dig into a couple of Martinez family's special recipes, like the banana sandwich, and will determine

1:45.8

if Midwestern salads that contain ingredients like Snickers bars and cookies and popcorn

1:52.1

are actually salads. Martina is from Kansas, so we're going to take a trip down the yellow

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