Toad the Wet Sprocket’s Glen Phillips: Kitchari

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Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Glen Phillips recently released his first solo album in 6 years; a collection of love songs to counter his last album, written following a divorce. Glen and host Rachel Belle talk about what foods he’s drawn to when he’s sad and what he tends to eat when he’s happy.

Glen grew up on his mom’s microwave cooking, so we’ll learn the connection between microwaves and feminism and why acclaimed food writer Barbara Kafka wrote (and was mocked for writing!) The Microwave Gourmet cookbook.

Glen’s last meal is a food Indians have been eating for thousands of years. Ayurvedic chef/owner of New York City’s Divya’s Kitchen joins the show to tell us more about kitchari.

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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.
0:20.2	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,
0:26.6	and we dig into the history, culture, and science of those meals with experts from around the world.
0:31.7	Today on the program, Glenn Phillips.
0:34.4	There changes.
0:52.3	Burn down the house, feed the fire like it doesn't. Glenn Phillips. Glenn is the lead singer of Toad the Wet Sprocket, and he recently released a new solo album called There is So Much Here. Glenn and I talk about sad food versus happy food.
0:55.4	And then I dig into a style of cooking that elicited some very strong reactions from you on
1:00.2	Instagram, microwave cooking.
1:02.4	We'll discuss the connection between feminism and microwave ovens.
1:05.7	And I chat with Nicole Kafka, daughter of award-winning food journalist Barbara Kafka,
1:12.8	author of the microwave gourave Gourmet.
1:16.9	And on the complete other end of the food spectrum, we'll learn the history of kitchery,
1:21.2	with one of the country's most revered Ayurvedic chefs, Divya Altar. But first, my conversation with Glenn Phillips.
1:35.4	Toad the Wet Sprocket was from a Monty Python sketch.
1:40.2	It was Eric Eiddle and it was like a fake rock news show called Rock Notes.
1:45.2	And so he's going through just the worst band names possible. And one of them was toad the wet sprocket. Another one was poached herring in a white wine sauce. That could have been your
1:50.1	name. Glenn recently released his first solo album in six years. His last album was called Swallowed
1:56.0	by the New, and it was written post-divorce in a cloud of grief. But the new album, There Is So Much Here, is a collection of love songs focusing on gratitude, beauty, and staying present.
2:07.7	Okay, so I was curious.
2:08.9	Your last album was post-divorce.
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