4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Actor, filmmaker and restaurant-owner Zach Braff (Scrubs, Alex Inc, Garden State) was born and raised in New Jersey - home to the highest percentage of Italian Americans in the country. And for his last meal, he's sticking close to his roots!
Host Rachel Belle digs into the cheesy, saucy and fascinating history of Italian food in America with Krishnendu Ray, Department Chair of the Food Studies Program at NYU.
Then she talks with cookbook author and Long Island native Amy Pennington about how to make the perfect red-checkered-tablecloth-and-Chianti-bottle-candleholder chicken parm.
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0:00.0 | Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights. |
0:05.6 | 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. |
0:31.5 | Today on the program, actor and filmmaker Zach Braff. Most recently, Zach starred in the ABC sitcom Alex Inc. |
0:39.0 | And he's best known for the film Garden State |
0:41.1 | and his role on the TV show Scrubs. |
0:43.2 | And speaking of Garden State, |
0:44.7 | Zach Braff is from New Jersey |
0:46.4 | and his last meal is Oso Jersey. |
0:49.7 | So light the candle on your bottle of Kianti, |
0:52.4 | lay out the good red and white chicken tablecloth |
0:55.0 | because we're going to dive into the saucy, cheesy history of Italian-American food. |
1:00.3 | Okay, I'm going to finish that accent now with the department chair of the food studies program at NYU, |
1:05.2 | Krishna und U. |
1:05.7 | And we'll talk chicken parm with my friend, former Long Islander, and current cookbook author, Amy Pennington. |
1:12.8 | And then you do a little marinar sauce. |
1:15.6 | And then maybe a little mutts, mozzarella. |
1:18.4 | Oh, mutts, huh? |
1:19.3 | Or mozzarella. |
1:20.3 | We're going soprano. |
1:21.7 | I mean, that's my family. |
1:23.5 | If I watched it and said mozzarella or like ricotta, they would, they're like, regatta. |
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