Salt & Straw Founders Kim & Tyler Malek: Swedish Pancakes & Dumplings in Sauerkraut

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Cousins Kim and Tyler Malek opened Salt & Straw Ice Cream over a decade ago in Portland, Oregon, and from the very start they were scooping up unusual flavor combinations like pear & blue cheese and bone marrow with bourbon smoked cherries.

Tyler shares the WORST flavor he's ever made (hint: there was seafood involved) & they talk about Grandma Malek, the matriarch behind both of their last meals.

Food historian Sarah Lohman joins the show to talk about the history of ice cream (Black Americans played a huge role) and we'll learn about Staten Island's delightful Enoteca Maria, a restaurant staffed by a rotating crew of grandmothers who cook up dishes from their native countries.

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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.
0:19.9	I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal.
0:23.5	The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most, and we dig into
0:27.3	the history, culture, and science of those meals with experts from around the world.
0:31.5	Today on the program, Kim and Tyler Malick, owners of salt and straw ice cream.
0:37.7	What is your relationship to start?
0:39.3	Because I'm assuming people probably think you're married all the time.
0:43.4	We have been asked that in the state of Oregon, it's illegal to marry your cousins,
0:48.3	so we are not married.
0:49.6	You're awkward.
0:50.9	That's the only reason why you're not married.
0:54.4	Oh gosh, Tyler's going to kill me later.
0:56.7	Yes, we are cousins.
0:58.6	Salt and Straw started in Portland, Oregon.
1:00.8	But there are now scoop shops in Oregon, Washington, California,
1:04.5	including one in Disneyland and in Miami.
1:08.0	Salt and Straw is famous for their unexpected flavors,
1:12.5	like pear and blue cheese,
1:18.8	bone marrow with bourbon smoked cherries, and mint and sea urchin meringue. We have done several episodes on ice cream. Turns out it's a pretty popular last meal. Ben and Jerry have been on the show.
1:24.3	On the Isaac Mizrahi episode, we learned why chocolate chunks in ice cream don't freeze into
1:28.7	rock-hard chunks that'll break your teeth.
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