Rachel Belle on Desert Island Dishes
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Across the pond, in a country far, far away (um, England), Your Last Meal has a podcast cousin! On each episode of Desert Island Dishes, chef and host Margie Nomura asks her guests about the dishes that have shaped their lives, including the last dish they’d eat before being cast off to the desert island.
Host Rachel Belle was a guest on the show and this week we are bringing you that episode! After interviewing thousands of people in her career as a broadcast journalist, food and culture writer and podcast host, Rachel takes a break from asking questions and gets to answer some!
Rachel tells Margie about the food her family invented and sold in the 1980s, the most memorable dish from her childhood, how she got her start as a journalist and why “anticipation” will always be the most delicious ingredient.
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| 0:00.0 | Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights. |
| 0:05.6 | Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show. |
| 0:24.1 | I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal. |
| 0:27.4 | The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most, |
| 0:32.1 | and we dig into the history, culture, and science of those meals with experts from around the world. |
| 0:39.0 | But today, for our last episode of the year, we're doing something a little bit different. Between this podcast, 20 years of radio reporting, and many years of food and culture writing, I have |
| 0:44.7 | interviewed thousands of people, everyone from William Shatner to a cat psychic. But today, |
| 0:50.9 | I get the day off, because someone else is going to ask the questions. |
| 0:55.1 | And I am going to answer them. |
| 0:57.2 | I was a guest on Desert Island Dishes, a British podcast hosted by Margie Nomura, a private |
| 1:03.8 | chef who is cooked all around the world and close to home. |
| 1:07.4 | Margie is cooked for the Queen of England. |
| 1:09.9 | Desert Island dishes is kind of like the |
| 1:11.9 | European cousin of your last meal. But instead of one final meal, Margie works her way through |
| 1:18.4 | her guest's lives and gets them talking about a handful of dishes that shaped them. I think you're |
| 1:23.5 | going to like it. One thing that I'm a little bit obsessed with is the way that Margie says |
| 1:28.2 | podcast. The American accent is truly the worst. When we say podcast, it sounds totally normal, |
| 1:34.6 | until you hear Margie say it or any other British person. Podcast. It's so lovely. Podcast. |
| 1:42.5 | Podcast. Podcast. Podcast. |
| 1:44.8 | All right. |
| 1:45.7 | I'm going cuckoo. |
| 1:47.6 | Margie, take it away. |
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