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Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Ani DiFranco: Watermelon Feta Salad

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

Music Interviews, Arts, Food, Comedy Interviews, Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Comedy, Music, Science, History

4.4709 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

If you listened to the Grammy-winning singer/songwriter in the ’90s, she wants you to know she’s still making music: Ani DiFranco just released her 23rd album!

Ani is known for lyrics that explore politics, social justice and feminism, but in real life she is smiley, friendly and down-to-earth – not the “angry feminist” she was often mislabeled as.

Ani grew up in Buffalo, New York, where she was tasked with cooking dinner for her family starting at age 9. Today she enjoys cooking for her own family in New Orleans – a soothing ritual that balances the craziness of touring.

Ani says she’ll eat anything, so I pulled out a list of America’s most hated foods & quizzed her – listen in to hear what they are! And a social psychologist joins the show to talk about how a country’s culture influences our likes and dislikes.

Plus, Ani’s opinion of school lunch and a story about a school district that refuses to dumb down dishes for its young eaters.

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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.

0:19.4

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

0:23.2

The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most,

0:26.1

and we dig into the history, culture, or science of those meals with experts from around the world.

0:32.0

Today on the program, Grammy Award-winning feminist icon singer-songwriter, Ani DeFranco.

0:39.8

I'm not black or white or gray.

0:46.3

I'm not he or she or they.

0:52.5

I'm not gay or by your straight.

0:59.0

I'm just me and maybe that's just another thing to say.

1:06.2

Ani was one of the first artists to reject the major label system and create her own record label

1:11.7

back in 1990. Righteous Babe Records has signed dozens of artists over the years. She wrote a memoir

1:17.9

that was a New York Times top 10 bestseller. She's written two children's books and recently

1:22.9

completed a five-month run on Broadway in the Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical, Hades Town,

1:28.6

of which she composed all of the music.

1:30.9

And her 23rd album is out now, which means she's about to head out on tour.

1:36.4

I was super excited to have this conversation with Ani, and we're just going to jump into it right now.

1:42.2

Doce do, thanks to the emptiness and the energy that teaches me how to flow.

1:50.3

Whenever I start to research someone, the first thing that I do is I just type their name

1:54.3

into Google and then I type the words, food, cooking, eating.

1:58.1

And I've been doing this show for eight years. And I think you're like the second

2:01.3

person where there was not a single mention of any kind of food. So is this the first time you've

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