Typing to you from my living room, with a cat on my lap and a squinty-eyed face full of rare, appreciated, blinding late afternoon sunshine. Hi! How’s your Tuesday? Can someone please hand me my sunglasses? I have a cat on my lap!!
Your Last Meal interviews are generally pretty spacious: I request 30 minutes with a celebrity, which is usually plenty of time to have a conversation.
Sometimes a PR rep tells me the guest has a hard out and must be finished exactly at the 30 minute mark (and they quietly loiter in the background of the call, making sure I finish the interview on time) and sometimes it’s super lax and a guest will stay on the line with me for an hour. I chatted with comedian, actor and SNL alum Julia Sweeney for a joyful hour and a half, until I regrettably told her that I had to go! (One of my all time favorite interviews, she’s so funny, genuine, down-to-earth and an amazing storyteller.)
But back in October, when I showed up for the grand opening media event for Legion Sports Bar to interview co-owners, and former Seahawks legends, Richard Sherman and Kam Chancellor, I was told I had five minutes, and not a minute more. Yikes!
But I made the most of my time with the guys & the latest episode of the podcast with Richard Sherman and Kam Chancellor is super fun, thanks to a nice long interview with the Seahawks head chef and nutritionist who work together to design meals for the team in the Seahawks Performance Kitchen.
The team eats three meals a day, five days a week, at the Seahawks practice facility & they make everything from banana bread and grain bowls to fine-dining style plated meals with fancy plate swoops of sauce. It’s a fun listen!
My rainbow cooking club has made it to blue! When the Barbie movie came out, my friends and I had a Pink Potluck, and it was so much fun we decided to continue cooking through the rainbow.
I made blue potato chip “nachos” with a blue cheese sauce, bacon and scallions. We had blue corn polenta (that looked more like purply-brown refried beans) with roasted veg, Blue Moon ice cream (a popular regional flavor my friend grew up with in Michigan) that (surprise!) tastes like almond, not bubblegum, and a blue (lemon) cake; its guts naturally colored with butterfly pea flower.
I’m watching Dawson’s Creek for the first time and I had no idea television from 1998 would be such a balm! It was a simpler time, before Tom Cruise jumped on a couch to express his love for Katie Holmes, who is so cute and young and incredibly BITCHY in this show! As we used to say in the 90s: take a chill pill, Joey!
My friend scored us a last minute, extremely coveted, reservation to Kann in Portland, Oregon, a modern Haitian restaurant by Top Chef alum Gregory Gourdet. The food was incredible: smoky, spicy, and all completely new to me. We ordered half the menu, and every dish was *chef’s kiss* — snag a reservation if you can!
xoxo
Rachel