Sharon Van Etten: Mashed Potatoes on Toast

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Sharon Van Etten is on the road now touring her seventh album, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory. But as much as she loves writing and performing music, she has considered a couple different career paths: therapist and sommelier!

Sharon’s love of wine started in high school, when she was an exchange student living with a family in Spain. So host Rachel Belle interviews the founders of Open That Bottle Night, a couple of former Wall Street Journal wine writers who created an annual holiday to encourage people to open the special bottles of wine that no occasion seemed to be special enough for.

Sharon says she doesn’t like to cook when she’s in a bad mood because the food always ends up tasting bad. Rachel calls up cognitive neurologist Dr Rachel Herz, author of Why You Eat What You Eat, who says food actually does taste different when you’re sad, angry, depressed or happy.

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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.
0:19.7	I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal.
0:23.4	The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most, and we dig into
0:27.3	the history, culture, or science of those meals with experts from around the world.
0:32.2	Today on the program, musician and actor Sharon Van Etten.
0:37.3	Sharon is out on the road right now touring her seventh album,
0:41.5	Sharon Van Etton and The Attachment Theory. But she almost had a career in wine, something she is still
0:47.9	passionate about as a hobby. So I chat with the founders of Open That Bottle Night. A holiday
0:54.1	every wine drinker needs to be aware of.
0:56.9	And Sharon says if she cooks when she's in a bad mood, the food tastes awful.
1:02.1	I chat with a cognitive neuroscientist to see if there are scientific data to back that up.
1:07.6	All that coming up later in the show.
1:10.2	But first, my conversation with Sharon Van Etton.
1:19.9	You are very passionate about wine. I'm curious when that started for you. When I was in high school,
1:26.2	I was in AP Spanish, and when I got to that level,
1:29.6	I had the opportunity to apply for an exchange program. And the family that I was able to stay with
1:36.4	lived in La Gronio, which is in La Rioja region, in the north near San Sebastian. And I got to live with a family in their flat.
1:46.5	And, you know, we lived together, ate together.
1:49.4	They took me tapas, bar hopping, and showed me just how every restaurant had a specialization.
1:57.3	And then they took me to a restaurant and a winery and had me taste this bottle of wine from Rioha
2:04.7	with a meal that we were having and I had no idea about wine until then. All with the pairing of
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