Unorthodox Podcast: Friendly's Fishamajig, Ben's Kosher Deli & Israeli Schnitzel
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
It's Hanukkah, friends! And in an attempt to build a human menorah, host Rachel Belle invited Mark Oppenheimer, Stephanie Butnick and Liel Leibovitz into the studio, hosts of the world's leading Jewish podcast, Unorthodox! (We are still five "candles" short, if you know anyone). Together, we attempt to tackle the most important Jewish food topics of our time: is it more Jewish to wrap your leftovers in tin foil or plastic wrap? Is it a good idea to blend schnitzel and Israeli salad into a savory smoothie? And the most shocking topic of all: are bagels even a Jewish food anymore?
Food writer and cookbook author, Leah Koenig joins the show to share the history of bagels, cream cheese and lox in America. And we revisit the biggest bagel scandal of 2019, the tweet that rocked the nation: Bagelgate! A couple of St Louis food writers weigh in on the St Louis tradition of "bread slicing" bagels.
All this and, of course, the last meal reveals of Mark, Stephanie and Liel!
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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 | Cairo, Seattle. I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most. |
| 0:31.4 | Today on the program, we've got a full house. |
| 0:34.6 | No, no, I did not interview Stephanie, DJ, Danny, and Michelle Tanner, but there will be |
| 0:39.3 | three whole guests on the show today. I interviewed all three hosts from one of my very |
| 0:43.7 | favorite podcasts, Unorthodox, the world's leading Jewish podcast. Stephanie Buttig, Leah Leibowitz, |
| 0:50.2 | and Mark Oppenheimer are all editors of varying degrees at Tablet Magazine. They have written books and articles for major publications. |
| 0:57.0 | They have taught at prestigious universities spoken all around the country, |
| 1:01.0 | and their individual accomplishments would take way too long for me to include in this intro. |
| 1:06.0 | But these are some of the smartest, funniest people in media today. |
| 1:09.0 | They have amazing chemistry. They're obviously |
| 1:11.8 | great friends. But part of what makes the podcast work is how different they are. Liel is a politically |
| 1:17.8 | conservative Israeli. Mark is a liberal New Englander with five children. And Stephanie is the token |
| 1:23.6 | millennial with a cat named Cat Stevens. So were you all put together like a boy band? |
| 1:29.0 | Was there like some like, you know, old dude with gold chains and a big belly? |
| 1:32.7 | There was a 72 year old Jewish banker. |
| 1:34.6 | Uh-huh. |
| 1:34.9 | He's like, you know, we control this industry. |
| 1:36.5 | So let's, uh, let's see what we could do. |
| 1:38.1 | He's like, we need the cute one and then we need the sassy one. You've heard of K-pop, but this is more like J-pop. I looked around the room at |
| 1:44.3 | Tablet and I said, who would it be fun to do a podcast with? You know, you want difference, right? |
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