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Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rainn Wilson, A Vegetarian Israeli Spread

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

🗓️ 25 April 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Actor Rainn Wilson is best known for playing Dwight Schrute on the American version of The Office. But when he's not acting, he's trying to make the world a better place. Rainn and his wife run a non-profit called Lide Haiti, to help educate at-risk girls in Haiti, and last year they attempted to transition from voracious meat lovers to plant chomping vegans. Which leads us to Rainn's last meal: a vegetarian Israeli feast! 

Rainn's last meal allowed host Rachel Belle to unpack a topic she's been ruminating on for years: the disappointing state of hummus in America. David Nussbaum, owner of Seattle's fantastic Aviv Hummus Bar, joins the conversation to discuss the difference between American hummus and Israeli chooomousse (emphasis on the guttural "ch"), why it took him years to perfect a dish with only three ingredients and why he refuses to water down his recipes to suit American palates.  

If you pronounce bruschetta "broosketta" and say "cwassan" instead of croissant, this is the episode for you! Or! If you think it's pretentious to pronounce bruschetta "broosketta" and say "cwassan" instead of croissant...this is also the episode for you.

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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.

0:26.5

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

0:30.5

Today on the program, actor, comedian, and nonprofit-running do-gooder, Rain Wilson.

0:36.4

Rain Wilson is best known for playing Dwight Shrut on the American version of the office from 2005 to 2013.

0:43.2

And he's set to star in an upcoming Amazon show called Utopia with John Cusack.

0:47.6

But Rain's entree into stardom was on a soap opera.

0:51.1

My first on camera acting gig was on one life to live.

0:55.4

I forget the guy's name, but I was a homicidal stand-up comic, which is pretty perfect casting.

1:00.3

Rain also co-founded Soul Pancake, a digital media company that makes uplifting videos

1:05.4

and aims to make the world a better place.

1:08.2

And speaking of caring about living things, last year, Rain and his wife

1:12.2

challenged themselves to go vegan. So the hardest thing to give up for me was cheese. I used to eat

1:17.3

a lot of cheese, and I just loved it. Cheese on sandwiches and cheese and eggs, and just snacking on

1:24.1

cheeses. And that has been the best thing for me to give up. I don't miss the cheese.

1:30.1

It just now like the thought of eating cheese kind of makes me sick. It would be like eating like

1:34.7

silly putty right from the egg. Now, Rain didn't know it, but his last meal is allowing me to

1:40.3

rant about a topic that is very near and dear to my heart, a topic I will wax

1:44.7

on about to anyone who will listen. The proper way to pronounce that mashed up Mediterranean

1:50.1

chickpeed dish that is now sold in every grocery store and served on happy hour menus

1:55.0

in bars across America. In Israel, in Hebrew, you say hummus. In the States, it got translated to hummus.

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