Taylor Hanson: Caprese with Perfect Tomatoes & Burrata
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Taylor Hanson is the middle brother in Hanson, the band he's been performing in with his brothers Isaac and Zac since he was nine years old. So it's not surprising that this Oklahoma boy had a palate changing culinary epiphany while touring in Europe when he was 15.
That epiphany revolved around a perfectly ripe, locally grown tomato, and anyone who's ever picked a pink, mealy tomato slice off their burger knows that commercially grown tomatoes leave much to be desired. Host Rachel Belle chats with Dr. Harry Klee, a horticulture professor who has worked for nearly three decades to develop a flavorful, affordable grocery store tomato. And he answers the question: why are supermarket tomatoes so bad??
And the Oklahoma Historical Society joins the show to share the story behind Oklahoma's official state meal.
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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. |
| 0:31.0 | Today on the program, Taylor Hansen. |
| 0:34.0 | You know Taylor as the middle brother in Hansen. |
| 0:36.9 | The band he's been in with his brother's Isaac and Zach since he was nine years old. |
| 0:41.8 | Taylor was only 14 years old when their big hit, Mbop, was released in 1996. |
| 0:47.3 | I can't tell you how many times I've had to redo this part. |
| 0:49.6 | Saying Mbop is not as easy as you think. |
| 0:52.0 | But tomorrow, Hansen releases their 11th studio album, |
| 0:56.0 | Red, Green, Blue. |
| 0:57.1 | You can just breathe. |
| 1:01.5 | You are no mistake. |
| 1:06.3 | Oh, you're feeling straight. |
| 1:09.3 | Taylor is from Oklahoma. |
| 1:15.1 | Oklahoma actually has a state meal. I don't even know if that's a thing in other places, but there's an official state meal. And it's a bigan. We'll learn all about it from |
| 1:20.8 | the Oklahoma Historical Society. Taylor had a food awakening as a teenager, traveling around the |
| 1:26.8 | world with his band. |
| 1:28.0 | His culinary world went from black and white to color when he tasted a perfectly ripe, in-season Italian tomato. |
| 1:35.2 | So I'll chat with Dr. Harry Clee, professor of horticultural sciences at University of Florida. |
| 1:41.1 | Dr. Clee's professional mission for the last 27 years has been to make grocery |
| 1:45.8 | store tomatoes taste good again. Kind of sounds like a hat. I did get tomatoes for my license plate |
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