Mary Lambert: Chicken Fried Steak

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Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Singer Mary Lambert, made famous by her stunning vocal accompaniment to the smash hit "Same Love" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, is now a solo star in her own right. Mary brings pure joy and candor to her music and everything she does -- and she is very passionate about food. Tuck into one of the most delightful interviews you'll ever hear, and learn the not-so-true origins of chicken fried steak.

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.
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0:15.3	I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal. A show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.
0:24.9	Today on the program,
0:30.6	singer Mary Lambert's Last Meal.
0:34.5	I don't even know what chicken fried steak is.
0:37.1	I just like it.
0:38.4	Is it steak?
0:39.7	Who really knows?
0:41.5	It might be pork.
0:43.1	It might be a pork chop.
0:44.7	My quest to find the origin story of chicken fried steak took me to La Mesa, Texas,
0:50.1	which was declared the legendary home of chicken fried steak by the Texas legislature in 2011.
0:56.0	Am I saying it wrong? Is it La Mesa or La Mesa?
0:58.8	It's La Mesa.
1:00.1	But is Lemisa really where chicken fried steak was invented?
1:03.1	So I just made up the story.
1:05.0	It took me about, I don't know, maybe 30 minutes to write it.
1:08.5	And it never occurred to me that anybody would think it was for real.
1:11.7	Wait.
1:12.7	So chicken fried steak is fake news?
1:15.7	All right.
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