Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.

Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show.

I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal.

The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most, and we dig into

the history, culture, or science of those meals with experts from around the world.

Today on the program, Alton Brown.

Alton Brown is best known for his Food Network show GoodEats that ran for 16 seasons.

But he also hosted Iron Chef America and many other shows. He's also a New York Times bestselling

author and just released his 10th book this week. It's called Food for Thought, Essays and Ruminations.

This is the first time he's written something so personal.

And he credits his wife Elizabeth for getting him through the writing process.

Writing this book messed with me in ways that I've been messed with before.

And I was in a raw kind of fetal position, I think, in the corner.

So I almost didn't cook through the whole writing of the book.

And so

what's so wonderful about food when you simply allow yourself to be nurtured by another person.

And I've often said that there's no better meal than a meal made for you by someone who loves you.

It has been 32 years since the Food Network launched. And we'll hear all about its very clunky

start from Alan Salkin,

who wrote the book from scratch, the uncensored history of the Food Network.

This thing that nobody thought was a good idea at first, it was ridiculed,

and then became a media company worth billions of dollars.

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