Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from Molly Yeh, star of Girl Meets Farm on Food Network & bestselling cookbook author. Her latest is a book of desserts called Sweet Farm.  Molly bakes beautiful cakes for everybody’s birthdays, but what treat does she request when celebrating her own? I'll bet you a thousand brownies that you’ll never guess! Molly says there is one kitchen tool that will vastly improve your bakes, something all professionals use, but which many home bakers still haven’t come around to. And she tells host Rachel Belle what inspired her to open a cafe and bakery in East Grand Forks, Minnesota, while already managing a successful TV and book writing career.   Listen [https://www.cascadepbs.org/podcasts/your-last-meal/2025/06/molly-yeh-salami-matzo-brei/] to last week's Your Last Meal episode with Molly Yeh! ---------------------------------------- Watch Rachel’s Cascade PBS TV show The Nosh with Rachel Belle [https://video.cascadepbs.org/show/the-nosh-with-rachel-belle/episodes?ref=cascadepbs.org]! Season 2 out now! Sign up [https://secure.cascadepublicmedia.org/page/133765/subscribe/1?ref=cascadepbs.org] for Rachel’s new (free!) Cascade PBS newsletter for more food musings! Follow along on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/hellorachelbelle/?hl=en&ref=cascadepbs.org]!  Order [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747086/open-sesame-by-belle-rachel/?ref=cascadepbs.org] Rachel’s cookbook Open Sesame.  Support the show: http://rachelbelle.substack.com/ [http://rachelbelle.substack.com/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Molly Yeh is the Emmy- and James Beard Award-nominated star of Girl Meets Farm [https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/girl-meets-farm] on the Food Network; owner of Bernie’s, a bakery and cafe in East Grand Forks, Minnesota; and a bestselling cookbook author. Her new cookbook is Sweet Farm [https://mynameisyeh.com/], 100 dessert recipes that feature oh-so-Molly flavors like tahini, marzipan, hawaij and halva, plus a whole chapter devoted to Midwestern cookie salads! Molly tells host Rachel Belle how her relationship to sprinkles has changed as she’s gotten older; how she, a Juilliard graduate with a degree in percussion, ended up living on a sugar-beet farm on the Minnesota/North Dakota border; what a cookie salad is; and her secret to being an excellent baker. Molly bakes beautiful, buttery, super-moist cakes, sometimes testing a recipe more than 30 times to get it right. All that cake talk got Rachel thinking about Cake Picnic [https://www.cakepicnictour.com/], an event in March that went super-viral, where home bakers brought and devoured nearly 1,400 cakes in a San Francisco park! Rachel welcomes Cake Picnic founder Elisa Sunga to the show to talk about how the event was born and how she keeps the cake chaos to a minimum. Listen to [https://www.cascadepbs.org/podcasts/your-last-meal/2020/01/best-of-greta-gerwig-molly-yeh-funfetti/]Molly Yeh on the Greta Gerwig episode of YLM, talking about her homemade Funfetti cake! ---------------------------------------- Watch Rachel’s Cascade PBS TV show The Nosh with Rachel Belle [https://video.cascadepbs.org/show/the-nosh-with-rachel-belle/episodes?ref=cascadepbs.org]! Season 2 out now! Sign up [https://secure.cascadepublicmedia.org/page/133765/subscribe/1?ref=cascadepbs.org] for Rachel’s new (free!) Cascade PBS newsletter for more food musings! Follow along on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/hellorachelbelle/?hl=en&ref=cascadepbs.org]!  Order [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747086/open-sesame-by-belle-rachel/?ref=cascadepbs.org] Rachel’s cookbook Open Sesame.  Support the show: http://rachelbelle.substack.com/ [http://rachelbelle.substack.com/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from Prabal Gurung, celebrated fashion designer and author of the new memoir Walk Like a Girl.  Prabal has made a habit of ordering a cheeseburger and fries in every city he visits – he tells host Rachel Belle who makes the best burger in the world. He recalls the magical celebrity sighting he had the first time he went to a restaurant in New York City after moving there from Nepal, and he talks about what he would pack to eat on weeks-long treks in the Nepalese mountains.  ---------------------------------------- Watch Rachel’s Cascade PBS TV show The Nosh with Rachel Belle [https://video.cascadepbs.org/show/the-nosh-with-rachel-belle/episodes?ref=cascadepbs.org]! Season 2 out now!  Sign up [https://secure.cascadepublicmedia.org/page/133765/subscribe/1?ref=cascadepbs.org] for Rachel’s new (free!) Cascade PBS newsletter for more food musings!  Follow along on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/hellorachelbelle/?hl=en&ref=cascadepbs.org]!  Order [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747086/open-sesame-by-belle-rachel/?ref=cascadepbs.org] Rachel’s cookbook Open Sesame.  Support the show: http://rachelbelle.substack.com/ [http://rachelbelle.substack.com/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Prabal Gurung’s new memoir, Walk Like a Girl, [https://prabalgurung.com/pages/walk-like-a-girl?srsltid=AfmBOopSDbyL21fFDhmHWuPVeQic-9hyGFHqXBioqhnPUii5-_Ciuq2A] tells his life story: how he went from being a bullied queer boy in Nepal who was always an outsider to starting his own label in New York City, designing gowns for First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Kamala Harris and Oprah Winfrey.  Prabal says he loves all kinds of food, but he is OBSESSED with momos, the steamed dumplings from his home country. He tells host Rachel Belle why they're so special to him and which A-list celebrity asked him to take her out for her first momo, when none of his friends or dates seemed interested.   From a $2,300 Chopova Lowena Hellmann’s mayo purse to T-shirts featuring images of tinned anchovies to major fashion houses that open restaurants, food and fashion are currently intersecting in a major way. A few experts join the show to talk about the psychology of why brands are featuring edible images; how a tomato purse reflects our country’s current culture and economy; and why we’re so eager to buy it all.  ---------------------------------------- Subscribe to Your Last Meal on Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-last-meal-with-rachel-belle/id1140304624] or Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/3jevC0KEJWUDcrrbVoTheh?si=14bdcde7b81b4318] or YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL18y1vgsGPLYE7jbws7AiepMJfmZJNkaJ]. Watch Rachel’s Cascade PBS TV show The Nosh with Rachel Belle [https://video.cascadepbs.org/show/the-nosh-with-rachel-belle/episodes]! Season 2 out now! Sign up [https://secure.cascadepublicmedia.org/page/133765/subscribe/1] for Rachel’s new (free!) Cascade PBS newsletter for more food musings! Follow along on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/hellorachelbelle/?hl=en]! Order [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747086/open-sesame-by-belle-rachel/] Rachel’s cookbook Open Sesame. Support the show: http://rachelbelle.substack.com/ [http://rachelbelle.substack.com/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from W. Kamau Bell, Emmy- and Peabody-nominated TV host, comedian, filmmaker and best-selling author.   Kamau tells host Rachel Belle about the delightfully different flavor of attention that came with winning Celebrity Jeopardy; how rare it is to find his favorite kind of burrito in California’s Bay Area, a region famous for burritos; and how losing a family member means he’ll never taste his favorite birthday cake again.  Listen to last week's episode [https://www.cascadepbs.org/podcast/your-last-meal/1/239/your-last-meal-w-kamau-bell-politics-mac-cheese] of Your Last Meal with W. Kamau Bell! ---------------------------------------- Watch Rachel’s Cascade PBS TV show The Nosh with Rachel Belle [https://video.cascadepbs.org/show/the-nosh-with-rachel-belle/episodes]! Season 2 out now! Sign up [https://secure.cascadepublicmedia.org/page/133765/subscribe/1] for Rachel’s new (free!) Cascade PBS newsletter for more food musings! Follow along on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/hellorachelbelle/?hl=en]! Order [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747086/open-sesame-by-belle-rachel/] Rachel’s cookbook Open Sesame. Support the show: http://rachelbelle.substack.com/ [http://rachelbelle.substack.com/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.