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Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Shabazz Palaces' Ishmael Butler: Slow Roasted Chicken Dinner

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

Music Interviews, Arts, Food, Comedy Interviews, Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Comedy, Music, Science, History

4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

There must have been a magical elixir flowing from the drinking fountains at Seattle's Garfield High School. Alumni include Jimi Hendrix, Quincy Jones, Macklemore and our very special guest Ishmael Butler, rapper and founding member of Shabazz Palaces and Grammy Award winning hip-hop group Digable Planets.

Host Rachel Belle first met Ish eight years ago, when she interviewed him at his house for a column called Show Us Your Fridge. So, it felt right to indulge in another round of culinary voyeurism and take a peek into the healthy home cook's refrigerator.

Ish and Rachel discuss the Shabazz Palace song Chocolate Soufflé, so Seattle pastry chef Brittany Bardeleben joins the show to walk us through how to make the fussy French dessert, and opines on why you rarely see it on menus these days.
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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

I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.

0:31.7

Today on the program, Ishmael Butler.

0:41.3

I'm having my cake and I'm eating cake. Ishmael Butler. Ish is a founding member of Shabazz Palaces.

0:44.3

You are listening to his song, Cake.

0:46.7

And he is one of the founding members of Digable Planets, easily one of the best hip-hop groups

0:52.1

in the 1990s.

0:53.7

And this is not my first encounter with Ish.

0:55.8

Several years ago, I went to his house to do a print story about what was inside his

1:00.9

refrigerator.

1:01.9

So I might make you get up and look in your fridge again so we can compare.

1:05.6

Ooh, okay.

1:08.4

I have a list here of what you had in there before.

1:10.7

So we'll see how much has changed in, oh, my God, eight years.

1:14.2

It's got to be interesting, yeah.

1:15.4

Yeah.

1:16.2

And pastry chef, Brittany Bartoladen will join the show to bust some myths about an old-fashioned fussy French dessert, the chocolate souffle.

1:25.3

But first, my conversation with Ishmael Butler.

1:33.8

Very important fact.

1:35.2

I read, your birthday is my half birthday.

1:38.3

So we're basically the same person.

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