Rachel Belle

1 day ago | cascadepbs.org | Rachel Belle

Take yourself on a pizza crawl, from a bacon-and-egg topped breakfast pie to an East Coast-style slice shop (that also has a cult-classic hoagie). In the latest episode of The Nosh, Rachel Belle visits one of the places defining Seattle-style pizza. As a 12-year-old, I hoped the jingle in the 1990s Bagel Bites commercial was actually a psychic reading — that with a shake of the Magic 8 Ball my future would include: Pizza in the morning. Pizza in the evening. Pizza at supper time.

6 days ago | cascadepbs.org | Rachel Belle

From Dungeness crab to miso and chashu, some Seattle chefs are defining the city’s pie style through the flavors of their diverse cultures. In 2024, uproar ensued when a study by Mandoe Media ranked Seattle as America’s #1 pizza city.

1 week ago | cascadepbs.org | Rachel Belle

On last week’s episode of Your Last Meal, Danielle told Rachel she never goes anywhere without a little vial of high-quality soy sauce in her purse. So Rachel popped into Mixed Pantry for a soy sauce tasting, a fun activity open to anyone who visits. The shop sells soy sauces from several countries, but the tasting centers around the five standard types of Japanese shoyu, owner Tak Kunimune’s specialty.

1 week ago | cascadepbs.org | Rachel Belle

The Portland-based chain partners with nonprofits to use still-edible waste like cacao pulp and bruised fruits to create delicious, sustainable sweets. Salt & Straw is famous for adding unorthodox ingredients to its ice creams – blue cheese, bone marrow, cured black olives.

2 weeks ago | cascadepbs.org | Rachel Belle

Danielle welcomes host Rachel Belle into her world of soy sauce snobbery, and Your Last Meal listeners call in to confess what condiments they have sneaked into restaurants, movie theaters and doughnut shops over the years. First Beyoncé sang about having hot sauce in her bag, then Hillary Clinton talked about her spicy stash on the campaign trail. But Emmy-nominated journalist Myra Flynn says the habit of toting hot sauce started out of necessity with enslaved Americans.