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Rachel Belle

Your Last Meal, The Nosh, Host

Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle is the host of The Nosh and the host and creator of Your Last Meal, a James Beard Award finalist for Best Podcast. She is an editor-at-large at Cascade PBS. An Edward R. Murrow award-winning feature reporter, she’s spent the past 20 years as a broadcast journalist, most recently at Seattle’s KIRO Radio. As a freelance food writer, her work has been published in Lucky Peach, Eater, Seattle Weekly, The Stranger, etc. Her cookbook Open Sesame was released in November 2024. You can find her on Instagram or email her at rachel.belle@crosscut.com.

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Podcast

Cascade PBS presents: Your Last Meal

Sat May 31, 2025 | 10:00am
In-person

Your Last Meal is a James Beard Award finalist for best podcast hosted by national Edward R. Murrow award-winning reporter Rachel Belle. Each episode, Belle asks a celebrity (Greta Gerwig, Jewel, Margaret Cho, John Waters, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Kyle MacLachlan, Bill Nye, Maria Sharapova, etc,) what they would choose to eat for their last meal. Then she consults experts from around the world to uncover the history, science and culture of these dishes — from the designer who crafted Lady Gaga’s infamous meat dress to the ice-cream scientists at Ben & Jerry’s. 

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The Cascade PBS Ideas Festival is a full-day event in downtown Seattle, featuring live podcast recordings and studio television tapings from The Atlantic, NPR, CNN, Vox, PBS, Crooked Media, The Gist, Open to Debate, and more. Watch live as journalists, newsmakers, and thought leaders from around the world take on hot topics making news and the biggest issues of our time. Plus, community meetups, speaker meet-and-greets, micro-sessions, food trucks, DJs, and artists.

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