Tucker Shaw: Pantry Pasta

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Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Every home cook worth their can of anchovies can throw together a dish based on the bits and bobs knocking around their cupboards and crisper, and for writer Tucker Shaw, his pantry pasta is last meal worthy.

Tucker’s debut novel, “When You Call My Name,” follows two, gay teenage boys who are navigating the AIDS crisis in 1990 New York City. But host Rachel Belle became a fan of Tucker’s in 2005, when she was gifted his book “Everything I Ate: A Year In The Life of My Mouth,” a book of photographs documenting every single thing Tucker ate in a year.

Two archeologists join the show to share the discoveries they’ve made about how early humans ate, including some 70,000 year old burnt bread crumbs that debunk the Paleo diet!

And Tucker loves cereal, so we explore the stories behind some of the most iconic cereal mascots (Tony the Tiger! Cap’n Crunch!) with Tim Hollis, author of “Part of a Complete Breakfast: Cereal Characters of the Baby Boom Era.”

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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.
0:23.3	The show where Celebrity Share Stories about the foods they love most, and we dig into the history,
0:28.2	culture, and science of those meals with experts from around the world.
0:31.8	Today on the program, writer Tucker Shaw.
0:35.3	Tucker's debut novel is called When You Call My Name. It follows two gay
0:39.8	teenage boys navigating the AIDS crisis in 1990 New York City. Tucker was also editor-in-chief
0:46.4	of America's Test Kitchen and dining editor and food critic at the Denver Post. But I was introduced to
0:52.6	Tucker in 2005 when a friend gifted me his book
0:55.7	Everything I ate, a year in the life of my mouth. It's a book of photographs, documenting every
1:01.4	single thing that Tucker ate in a year, which sounds completely normal now. But Tucker's book
1:07.4	came out before social media, when the only way that you could see what someone
1:11.4	was having for breakfast was if you were sitting across from them.
1:14.7	There was a little morbid part of me that imagined 10,000 years from now of future
1:21.2	anthropologists digging through the ruins of Manhattan and finding a relic like this.
1:27.7	So I interviewed two anthropologists
1:29.5	who study what ancient humans ate,
1:32.3	including a recently discovered
1:33.9	70,000-year-old Neanderthal meal.
1:37.1	If you eat or have eaten the paleo diet,
1:39.4	you're going to want to listen to this.
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