This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from China Forbes and Timothy Nishimoto from Pink Martini! The Portland, Oregon-based band is taking off on tour this week to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Get tickets here!

China and Timothy reveal their perfect birthday cakes, the countries they most enjoy eating in when they’re traveling the world, and what foods they can’t wait to eat when they get back home.

Listen to last week’s Your Last Meal episode with Pink Martini!

Watch Rachel’s Cascade PBS TV showThe Nosh with Rachel Belle! Season Two premieres today! 

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Order Rachel’s new cookbook Open Sesame.

This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from China Forbes and Timothy Nishimoto from Pink Martini! The Portland, Oregon-based band is taking off on tour this week to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Get tickets <a href="https://pinkmartini.com/shows/">here!</a>
China and Timothy reveal their perfect birthday cakes, the countries they most enjoy eating in when they&rsquo;re traveling the world, and what foods they can&rsquo;t wait to eat when they get back home.
<a href="https://www.cascadepbs.org/podcast/your-last-meal/1/231/your-last-meal-pink-martini-celebrates-30-years-global-music">Listen</a> to last week&rsquo;s Your Last Meal episode with Pink Martini!
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YOUR LAST MEAL is a James Beard Award finalist for best podcast hosted by National Edward R. Murrow award-winning reporter, cookbook author and Cascade PBS TV hostRachel Belle. 

Each episode Rachel asks a celebrity (Greta Gerwig, Jonathon Van Ness, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Margaret Cho, Alton Brown, Isaac Mizrahi, Ani DiFranco, Iron & Wine, etc) what they would choose to eat for their last meal. Then she uncovers the history, science and culture of these dishes with everyone from the designer who created Lady Gaga's meat dress to the ice cream scientists at Ben & Jerry's. 

YOUR LAST MEAL is a James Beard Award finalist for best podcast hosted by National Edward R. Murrow award-winning reporter, <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747086/open-sesame-by-belle-rachel/">cookbook</a> author and Cascade PBS <a href="https://www.pbs.org/show/the-nosh-with-rachel-belle/">TV host</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hellorachelbelle/?hl=en">Rachel Belle.</a>&nbsp;
Each episode Rachel asks a celebrity (Greta Gerwig, Jonathon Van Ness, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Margaret Cho, Alton Brown, Isaac Mizrahi, Ani DiFranco, Iron &amp; Wine, etc) what they would choose to eat for their last meal. Then she uncovers the history, science and culture of these dishes with everyone from the designer who created Lady Gaga's meat dress to the ice cream scientists at Ben &amp; Jerry's.&nbsp;

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

The Leftovers with Pink Martini

Kamau Bell has a long and impressive resume, including hosting seven seasons of the CNN docuseries United Shades of America, winning a Peabody Award for We Need to Talk About Cosby, and winning the third season of Celebrity Jeopardy, and he’s about to take off on his “Who’s With Me” standup tour.

Kamau wore a T-shirt on TV that read, “Not All Macaroni and Cheeses are Created Equal,” a political message and “insider Black conversation” that he explains to host Rachel Belle. We’ll also learn the true history of mac & cheese in America, a narrative that took 200 years to uncover, with James Beard Award-winning food historian Michael W. Twitty and Gayle Jessup White, a descendant of both Thomas Jefferson and James Hemmings, the enslaved head chef of Jefferson’s Monticello kitchen. 

Kamau tells host Rachel Belle about his experience traveling to Kenya with Anthony Bourdain, where his unadventurous eating tendencies were seriously challenged, and of course he shares his last meal. 

Watch Rachel’s Cascade PBS TV showThe Nosh with Rachel Belle! Season 2 out now!

Sign up for Rachel’s new (free!) Cascade PBS newsletter for more food musings!

Follow along on Instagram!

Order Rachel’s cookbook Open Sesame.

Kamau Bell has a long and impressive resume, including hosting seven seasons of the CNN docuseries&nbsp;United Shades of America, winning a Peabody Award for We Need to Talk About Cosby, and winning the third season of Celebrity Jeopardy, and he&rsquo;s about to take off on his &ldquo;<a href="https://www.wkamaubell.com/">Who&rsquo;s With Me&rdquo; standup tour.</a>
Kamau wore a T-shirt on TV that read, &ldquo;Not All Macaroni and Cheeses are Created Equal,&rdquo; a political message and &ldquo;insider Black conversation&rdquo; that he explains to host Rachel Belle. We&rsquo;ll also learn the true history of mac &amp; cheese in America, a narrative that took 200 years to uncover, with James Beard Award-winning food historian <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecookinggene/?hl=en">Michael W. Twitty</a> and<a href="https://www.instagram.com/Gaylejessupwhite/"> Gayle Jessup White</a>, a descendant of both Thomas Jefferson and James Hemmings, the enslaved head chef of Jefferson&rsquo;s Monticello kitchen.&nbsp;
Kamau tells host Rachel Belle about his experience traveling to Kenya with Anthony Bourdain, where his unadventurous eating tendencies were seriously challenged, and of course he shares his last meal.&nbsp;
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Watch Rachel&rsquo;s Cascade PBS TV show <a href="https://video.cascadepbs.org/show/the-nosh-with-rachel-belle/episodes">The Nosh with Rachel Belle</a>! Season 2 out now!
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W. Kamau Bell: Dim Sum

This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from musician and actor Sharon Van Etten, who is on the road touring her new album now! 

An educated wine lover, Sharon tells host Rachel Belle which bottle best represents her personality and which countries are often left out of the conversation when we talk about fantastic wines. Nicknamed “Snacks” by her bandmates, she reveals what she loves to nibble on when she’s on a road trip, on an airplane, hanging with her son or late at night, starving after performing a show.  

Listen to Sharon on last week’s episode of Your Last Meal. 

Watch Rachel’s Cascade PBS TV showThe Nosh with Rachel Belle! Season 2 out now!

Sign up for Rachel's new (free!) Cascade PBS newsletter for more food musings!

Follow along on Instagram!

Order Rachel’s cookbook Open Sesame.

This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from musician and actor Sharon Van Etten, who is on the road <a href="https://www.sharonvanetten.com/">touring her new album now</a>!&nbsp;
An educated wine lover, Sharon tells host Rachel Belle which bottle best represents her personality and which countries are often left out of the conversation when we talk about fantastic wines. Nicknamed &ldquo;Snacks&rdquo; by her bandmates, she reveals what she loves to nibble on when she&rsquo;s on a road trip, on an airplane, hanging with her son or late at night, starving after performing a show. &nbsp;
Listen to Sharon on last week&rsquo;s episode of <a href="https://www.cascadepbs.org/podcast/your-last-meal/1/237/your-last-meal-singer-sharon-van-etten-almost-became-sommelier">Your Last Meal.</a>&nbsp;
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Watch Rachel&rsquo;s Cascade PBS TV show <a href="https://video.cascadepbs.org/show/the-nosh-with-rachel-belle/episodes">The Nosh with Rachel Belle</a>! Season 2 out now!
<a href="https://secure.cascadepublicmedia.org/page/133765/subscribe/1">Sign up</a> for Rachel's new (free!) Cascade PBS newsletter for more food musings!
Follow along on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hellorachelbelle/?hl=en">Instagram</a>!
<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747086/open-sesame-by-belle-rachel/">Order</a> Rachel&rsquo;s cookbook Open Sesame.

The Leftovers with Sharon Van Etten

Sharon Van Etten is on the road now touring her seventh album, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory. But as much as she loves writing and performing music, she has considered a couple different career paths: therapist and sommelier!

Sharon’s love of wine started in high school, when she was an exchange student living with a family in Spain. So host Rachel Belle interviews the founders of Open That Bottle Night, a couple of former Wall Street Journal wine writers who created an annual holiday to encourage people to open the special bottles of wine that no occasion seemed to be special enough for.  

Sharon says she doesn’t like to cook when she’s in a bad mood because the food always ends up tasting bad. Rachel calls up cognitive neurologist Dr Rachel Herz, author of Why You Eat What You Eat, who says food actually does taste different when you’re sad, angry, depressed or happy.  

Watch Rachel’s Cascade PBS TV showThe Nosh with Rachel Belle! Season 2 out now!

Sign up for Rachel's new (free!) Cascade PBS newsletter for more food musings!

Follow along on Instagram!

Order Rachel’s cookbook Open Sesame.

<a href="https://www.sharonvanetten.com/">Sharon Van Etten</a> is on the road now touring her seventh album, Sharon Van Etten &amp; The Attachment Theory. But as much as she loves writing and performing music, she has considered a couple different career paths: therapist and sommelier!
Sharon&rsquo;s love of wine started in high school, when she was an exchange student living with a family in Spain. So host Rachel Belle interviews the founders of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dottieandjohn/">Open That Bottle Night,</a> a couple of former Wall Street Journal wine writers who created an annual holiday to encourage people to open the special bottles of wine that no occasion seemed to be special enough for.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Sharon says she doesn&rsquo;t like to cook when she&rsquo;s in a bad mood because the food always ends up tasting bad. Rachel calls up cognitive neurologist Dr Rachel Herz, author of <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/why-you-eat-what-you-eat/">Why You Eat What You Eat,</a> who says food actually does taste different when you&rsquo;re sad, angry, depressed or happy. &nbsp;
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Watch Rachel&rsquo;s Cascade PBS TV show <a href="https://video.cascadepbs.org/show/the-nosh-with-rachel-belle/episodes">The Nosh with Rachel Belle</a>! Season 2 out now!
<a href="https://secure.cascadepublicmedia.org/page/133765/subscribe/1">Sign up</a> for Rachel's new (free!) Cascade PBS newsletter for more food musings!
Follow along on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hellorachelbelle/?hl=en">Instagram</a>!
<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747086/open-sesame-by-belle-rachel/">Order</a> Rachel&rsquo;s cookbook Open Sesame.

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