"Seattle Eats" LIVE with Tan Vinh, Rachel Belle & J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Earlier this month, at Seattle’s Town Hall, Rachel Belle was a guest on a sold-out, live taping of Seattle Eats with host Tan Vinh, the award-winning food and drink writer for The Seattle Times. Bestselling cookbook author and chef, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt was also a guest!

The first segment of the show is dedicated to Thanksgiving: we learn about a local sushi chef’s recipe for teriyaki turkey, how green bean casserole factors into Tan’s immigrant story, and why Rachel has fond Thanksgiving memories of KFC and Celine Dion. Then Tan asks Rachel and Kenji about their Seattle favorites (best pizza, best bagels, best place to take a date) and Rachel gets to express her love for 1980s salad bars and The Baby-Sitters Club.

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to offer nonstop flights from Seattle to Tokyo
0:05.4	and Seattle to Seoul. Go to Alaska Airlines.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and book your trip today.
0:24.4	I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal.
0:27.8	The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most, and we dig into the history, culture, or science of those meals with experts from around the world.
0:33.7	But today, we are doing something different.
0:36.4	I am sharing part of a live Seattle Eats podcast taping with host Tonvin, J. Kenji Lopez-Aldt, and me at Town Hall in Seattle.
0:46.5	Tonvin is an award-winning food and drink writer for the Seattle Times.
0:50.5	Kenji Lopez-Alt is a New York Times best-selling cookbook author and chef,
0:54.7	and Seattle Eats is a production of Seattle Times and KUOW, part of the NPR Network.
1:00.6	As you know, I am usually the one asking the questions, so it was so much fun to get to
1:06.3	answer questions.
1:08.0	Taun asked us a lot about Thanksgiving.
1:10.7	And then we got to weigh in on our Seattle
1:12.4	favorites. Best pizza, best bagel, where do we like to go on our first date? And I got to express my love
1:18.6	for 1980s salad bars. This was so much fun. It was also a sold out event. So if you weren't able to
1:25.1	be there in person, I hope you enjoy our conversation
1:27.8	with me, Tanvin, and Kenji Lopez-Aldt.
1:36.8	So I'm curious, how do you turkey? Yes, I'm using it a verb. Sue me. How do you turkey?
1:43.0	Rachel Bell.
1:47.6	My favorite way to make a turkey is ham.
1:54.5	I'm a little Jewish girl who loves ham.
1:59.5	Turkey's fine, but I think most people agree that it's about the sides, right?
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