Rachel Belle

1 week ago | cascadepbs.org | Rachel Belle

Bored and craving connection during the pandemic, Seattle’s Lanne Rosebrook Stauffer created the country’s first Little Free Bakery, filling a latched box in Magnolia with homemade treats for her neighbors to enjoy each week. Not long after, she convinced her friend, food writer Jill Lightner, to open her own Little Free Bakery in Columbia City. Three years later, what started as a stress-baking experiment continues to be a joyful way to create community, one cookie, cupcake and muffin at a time.

1 week ago | cascadepbs.org | Rachel Belle

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.

1 week ago | cascadepbs.org | Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle shares her favorite from Lands of Origin, plus Pacific Northwest meets Vietnam at Little Saigon’s Hello Em.  The Mozambique-style egg tarts at Lands of Origin are lightly scented with orange blossom water and encased in a shatteringly flaky pastry shell. (Rachel Belle) Seattle is well-known for its coffee culture, but the latest evolution focuses less on nerdy brewing techniques and more on community and diversity.

2 weeks ago | cascadepbs.org | Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle visits the vibrant Vietnamese shop Hello Em and tries an Ethiopian coffee ceremony at Lands of Origin. A mocha is nice, but have you ever tried a ca phê chuối at Hello Em Việt Coffee & Roastery in Little Saigon? Vietnamese robusta anh roast is layered with caramelized banana, coconut cream, condensed milk, egg whip, salty peanuts and banana chips to make a creamy, complex, sweet and salty drink unlike anything you’ll get at a standard coffee shop.

2 weeks ago | cascadepbs.org | Rachel Belle

Josh is getting ready for a string of shows in Las Vegas, so host Rachel Belle presents him with the most ridiculous, over-the-top, calorie-packed dishes she could find on Vegas menus (obviously Guy Fieri is involved) and asks him to pick which ones he'd eat.  Josh and Rachel bond over a childhood love of New Kids on the Block, and he admits to loving a very trendy Los Angeles treat from a very trendy Los Angeles market (that he is still a little embarrassed to order).