Al Roker: Steakhouse Dinner
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Longtime Today show weatherman and anchor, Al Roker, just released a cookbook of family recipes with his chef daughter called Al Roker’s Recipes to Live By...but it took some convincing.
When Courtney Roker Laga asked her dad if he wanted to write a cookbook together, he knew his answer immediately: No thanks! Fifty years into a busy career, Al wrote a couple cookbooks years ago and knows how much work goes into them. But finally, they made a deal: Al would write the headnotes if Courtney develops and tests all the recipes.
Al tells host Rachel Belle about a breakfast tradition that started with his dad, that he carried on with his own teenaged son. Several of the cookbook’s breakfast recipes call for American cheese, so Rachel called up a cheese scientist (with a Ph.D. in cheese!) to find out what American cheese actually is, and in the process learns that it wasn’t even invented in America!
And Rachel couldn’t resist asking the weatherman what he likes to cook when it’s raining, snowing, sunny and the perfect spring day.
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| 0:00.0 | Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights. |
| 0:05.8 | Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal. |
| 0:22.8 | The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most, and we dig into |
| 0:27.8 | the history, culture, or science of those meals with experts from around the world. |
| 0:32.7 | Today on the program, Al Roker. |
| 0:36.2 | Al has been a weather presenter and co-anchor on NBC's today since 1996. |
| 0:41.9 | He's hosted two Food Network shows, hosted NBC's coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade |
| 0:47.3 | for 29 years. He has written a bunch of murder mysteries. He's a New York Times bestselling |
| 0:53.0 | author. Al has performed on Broadway. |
| 0:55.8 | And he has a new cookbook that he wrote with his daughter, Courtney Roker Laga, a professional |
| 1:01.4 | chef who has worked in Michelin-starred kitchens. |
| 1:04.1 | She's a recipe developer. |
| 1:05.8 | And their new book is called Al Roker's Recipes to Live By. |
| 1:09.5 | Easy, memory-making family dishes for every occasion. |
| 1:13.5 | She gets this all the time. Have you watched the bear? And she said, she can't. Yeah, that shows |
| 1:18.9 | very stressful. A little bit too real. Yeah, and I was driving her crazy. Sometimes when we're cooking, |
| 1:25.0 | if we're in the kitchen together, I go, behind, corner. Stop it. Right now. |
| 1:31.5 | Were you yes-cheffing her? Yeah, yeah. Because of scheduling, I interviewed Al and Courtney |
| 1:36.6 | separately, but you'll get to hear both sides of their cookbook writing process. And then, a man |
| 1:43.1 | with a PhD in cheese is going to join the show to explain |
| 1:46.7 | what American cheese actually is and where it comes from. Spoiler alert, it's not from America. |
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