Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.

Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show.

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

The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most,

and we dig into the history, culture, and science of those meals with experts from around the world.

And this week, we are doing something different.

Remember those gloriously rare occasions in school when you'd have a substitute teacher and you got to watch a movie instead of doing math or reading Shakespeare?

Well, this is the podcast equivalent.

Your substitute teacher this week is Mark Bitman, host of the podcast food.

Mark, of course, is a prolific cookbook author.

You most likely have one of his 30 books on your shelf.

He wrote about food for the New York Times for 30 years. He has six James Beard Awards,

and he was a guest on this show in 2021. So if you haven't listened to that episode, it's definitely

worth scrolling back for. Today you're going to hear an episode of Mark's podcast, Food, where he

was lucky enough to interview another prolific writer, David Sedaris, one of America's favorite

humor writers, and to be honest, someone I haven't been able to book on my show. So I am living

vicariously through Mark, and I am stoked to give you a little bit of David

Sideras talking about food. Back in December, I was on a flight from Morocco to Paris, and I was

reading David Sideris's latest book of essays. It's called Happy Go Lucky, and I was so caught

up in the story that I forgot where I was, and I loudly guffed a couple of times. I quietly snorted a couple of times

when I was trying not to guffaw. And when the plane landed and everybody stood up in the aisle

and they were waiting to get off, the woman sitting across the aisle from me was like,

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