Nora McInerny, A Box of Lucky Charms with Whole Milk

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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

4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Nora McInerny is an author and host of one of Rachel's favorite podcasts: Terrible, Thanks for Asking, "a funny/sad/uncomfortable podcast about talking honestly about our pain, our awkwardness, and our humanness, which is not an actual word."

For her last meal, Nora wants a magically delicious childhood favorite, so we talk to General Mills about their iconic breakfast cereal Lucky Charms.

But what is cereal without milk? Rachel gets the bottom of why humans started drinking other mammals' milk (and why so many of us are lactose intolerant) with Mark Kurlansky, author of Milk! A 10,000 Year Food Fracas.

And speaking of mammal milk, it turns out there's a LOT more going on with breast milk than most people realize. So Angela Garbes, author of Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy, breaks down nature's most perfect food.

You can buy Nora's books and get more info about The Hot Young Widows Club at noraborealis.com.

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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 behind the foods they love most.
0:31.7	Today on the program, Nora McInerney.
0:35.0	Nora hosts one of my favorite podcasts, terrible.
0:37.9	Thanks for asking.
0:39.1	She's the author of the memoir.
0:40.5	It's Okay to Laugh.
0:41.7	Prying is cool too.
0:43.1	And she has two new books on the way.
0:45.2	It makes it sound like she's pregnant with them.
0:47.1	Available for pre-order now.
0:49.3	Not from Nora's uterus.
0:51.3	Is that where babies are?
0:52.7	I think I need to take a sex ed class. I'll tell you more about
0:58.3	those books at the end of the show. Nora's Last Meal is a sacred and much beloved food in her
1:04.0	household. It's something her parents refused to buy when she was growing up and something that she now
1:08.9	serves to her kids with much fanfare.
1:11.4	But only on the weekends.
1:13.1	I think that if I were never going to eat again, I would just want to eat a bunch of sugar and some milk.
1:19.9	I really like milk still.
1:21.5	I still drink milk with my dinner.
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