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Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Tom Douglas: Dungeness Crab Feast

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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

4.4709 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

On the debut episode of YLM, Rachel asks her titular question of James Beard award-winner & Seattle's most popular chef Tom Douglas. Not only does Tom know his last meal, he already has a menu planned for his wake!

Featuring "Fortune Cookie Chronicles" author Jennifer 8 Lee, Seattle restaurateur Taylor Hoang, and "Deadliest Catch" Captain Keith Colburn. Original music by Prom Queen

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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.

0:11.3

Your last meal is sponsored by Heritage Distilling Company. Craft and small batch vodka, gins, and whiskeys.

0:16.9

Drink locally. Drink responsibly.

0:19.4

Cairo, Seattle.

0:20.3

Hi. Drink locally, drink responsibly. Cairo, Seattle.

0:33.1

I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal.

0:47.2

Each week we'll explore someone's perfect last meal to find out which food they find most delicious or nostalgic or comforting or gluttonous to learn about their life and personality through food.

0:52.5

And then we will hijack that dish and take it on a journey to explore its history and so much more. So what was your last meal before your colonoscopy?

0:55.5

My last meal was...

0:57.0

That is Tom Douglas, arguably Seattle's most famous chef, restaurateur, and James

1:03.3

Beard Award winner. The dude owns a bunch of restaurants.

1:06.1

A thousand. No, I have 13 full-service restaurants and I have 24 food businesses total.

1:11.4

And he thinks about his last meal a lot, a lot, a lot. Tom says that when he dies, he suspects

1:16.6

the media will want to know the last thing he ate. And he doesn't want it to be something lame.

1:21.2

Like a pathetic airport fruit cup. You know, the ones with the unripe honeydew. Why did they even

1:26.0

put that in there? Anyway, like I said, Tom thinks about food all the time.

1:30.0

Do you ever get tired of food?

1:32.0

I mean, you're probably thinking it, eating, and breathing it all the time.

1:34.7

Uh-huh, absolutely all the time.

1:36.1

And no, I don't get tired.

1:37.1

Look at me.

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