Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

The Leftovers with Hrishikesh Hirway

This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from Hrisihikesh Hirway, musician and prolific podcast host and producer! Hrisihi shares: * His favorite places to get delicious, vegan fast food * The show he watches when he wants comfort & what he likes to eat while he watches it * and more! Listen to the full episode of Your Last Meal with Hrisihikesh Hirway here. [https://www.cascadepbs.org/podcasts/your-last-meal/2026/05/hrishikesh-hirway-pav-bhaji-moms-mango-pie/] * Become a Cascade PBS member [https://secure.cascadepublicmedia.org/page/133995/donate/1?ref=cascadepbs.org]and support public media!    * 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]  * Sign up [https://secure.cascadepublicmedia.org/page/133765/subscribe/1?ref=cascadepbs.org] for Rachel’s (free!) biweekly 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.

Hrishikesh Hirway: Pav Bhaji & Mom's Mango Pie

Your ears are in for a treat -- this week they'll be graced by the velveteen voice of Hrishikesh Hirway! Hrishikesh is a prolific podcaster & he hosts and produces many, including my favorite food podcast of all time, Home Cooking [https://homecooking.show/], co-hosted by past Your Last Meal guest, Samin Nosrat [https://www.cascadepbs.org/podcasts/your-last-meal/2019/03/samin-nosrat-the-entire-menu-at-el-molino-central/], and the excellent music podcast, Song Exploder [https://songexploder.net/], that was turned into a Netflix show. He's also a musician and his new album [https://hrishikesh.co/] is out now! Hrishikesh tells host Rachel Belle: *  How his lifelong cookie obsession began * About his mom's mango pie, which has been featured in the New York Times [https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019974-mango-pie] and turned into a Salt & Straw ice cream flavor * Why he started drinking coffee, for the first time, in his mid-40s Then we're joined by Jim Henson Company "puppet wrangler" Lara MacLean, who took it upon herself to start baking the cookies that Cookie Monster demolishes on Sesame Street, because she wasn't happy with the last iteration!  * Become a Cascade PBS member [https://secure.cascadepublicmedia.org/page/133995/donate/1?ref=cascadepbs.org]and support public media!    * 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]  * Sign up [https://secure.cascadepublicmedia.org/page/133765/subscribe/1?ref=cascadepbs.org] for Rachel’s (free!) biweekly 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.

The Leftovers with Eve Plumb

This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from Eve Plumb, the actor who played Jan Brady on The Brady Bunch! After spending most of her life in southern California, Eve moved to New York City and in this week's lightning round, she talks about the food she misses most from her home state.  Listen to the full episode of Your Last Meal with Eve Plumb here. [https://www.cascadepbs.org/podcasts/your-last-meal/2026/05/eve-plumb-spaghetti-with-american-cheese/] * Become a Cascade PBS member [https://secure.cascadepublicmedia.org/page/133995/donate/1?ref=cascadepbs.org]and support public media!    * 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]  * Sign up [https://secure.cascadepublicmedia.org/page/133765/subscribe/1?ref=cascadepbs.org] for Rachel’s (free!) biweekly 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.

Eve Plumb: Spaghetti with American Cheese

Eve Plumb [https://www.instagram.com/theeveplumb] was 10 years old when she landed the role of Jan Brady, the middle daughter on The Brady Bunch, and now she's sharing what was going on behind-the-scenes in her new memoir, Happiness Included: Jan Brady and Beyond. The night Eve got the part, in 1969, her parents took her out for a celebratory dinner at Martoni’s, a martini-soaked, Italian-American Hollywood hot spot popular with folks in the music industry. Los Angeles culinary historian Katherine Spiers [https://www.instagram.com/katherine_spiers/] spills the tea on all the juicy Martoni’s celebrity gossip and tells host Rachel Belle which unsuspecting dish was all the rage in 1960s L.A.  Eve connects the dots between her favorite fast food order and her last meal and talks about which The Brady Bunch cast member she still has monthly drinks with!  * Become a Cascade PBS member [https://secure.cascadepublicmedia.org/page/133995/donate/1?ref=cascadepbs.org]and support public media!     * 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]   * Sign up [https://secure.cascadepublicmedia.org/page/133765/subscribe/1?ref=cascadepbs.org] for Rachel’s (free!) biweekly 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.

The Leftovers with Dawn Richard

This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from Dawn Richard [https://www.instagram.com/dawnrichard/], singer; animator and Adult Swim creative consultant and owner of Papa Ted’s vegan food truck in New Orleans.    In a lightning round, Dawn talks about graduating from college at the same time as her dad and her grandma, which food celebrity she admires most and how she finds a way to "New Orleansify" everything she cooks!   Listen to the full episode of Your Last Meal with Dawn Richard here. [https://www.cascadepbs.org/podcasts/your-last-meal/2026/04/dawn-richard-new-orleans-crawfish-boil/] Become a Cascade PBS member [https://secure.cascadepublicmedia.org/page/133995/donate/1?ref=cascadepbs.org]and support public media!    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]  Sign up [https://secure.cascadepublicmedia.org/page/133765/subscribe/1?ref=cascadepbs.org] for Rachel’s (free!) biweekly 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.