Chuck Palahniuk: Corn Pudding & Potato Pancakes
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Chuck Palahniuk is best known for his novel-turned-cult-classic-film Fight Club, but the prolific author has published a book nearly every year for the past two decades. His newest is called Shock Induction.
Chuck tells host Rachel Belle about the recipes fans have sent him from prison (and which he’s made!), why he can hardly look at a peach, let alone eat one, and why his mouth waters at the mere thought of a crusty, stale Hostess snack cake.
Chuck’s mom was not a great cook, but she was excellent at frosting cakes, specifically the Barbie cakes she made for her children in the 1960s and ’70s. We explore the long history of decorated doll cakes with food scholar KC Hysmith.
And, an extreme culinary creature of habit, Chuck reveals the meal he’s eaten three times a day for the past several years!
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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. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal. |
| 0:23.1 | The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most, and we dig into |
| 0:27.4 | the history, culture, or science of those meals with experts from around the world. |
| 0:31.7 | Today on the program, novelist Chuck Pollanick. |
| 0:35.5 | Chuck is most famous for Fight Club, his very first novel published in 1996. |
| 0:41.6 | A few years later, it was adapted into the movie Fight Club, a cult classic starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bottom Carter. |
| 0:49.5 | But Chuck has published more than 20 books. |
| 0:52.2 | His novel choke was also made into a movie starring Sam Rockwell, |
| 0:56.2 | and his brand new novel is called Shock Induction. Chuck's books are dark and funny and clever, |
| 1:02.8 | which mirrors a lot of the childhood stories that he shared with me. Chuck grew up in rural |
| 1:08.1 | Eastern Washington in the 1960s and 70s and has no shortage of strange and hilarious stories about food and childhood. |
| 1:17.4 | For example, the Barbie cakes his mom used to make for him and his siblings. |
| 1:21.7 | She make these cakes a lot? |
| 1:23.4 | Until the birthday candles would eventually get to one, that was always a great birthday. |
| 1:29.3 | When the Barbie went up in flames because the hair was so flammable, and it would be all the kids |
| 1:34.2 | screaming because the cake was being destroyed and it would be my mother trying to get this huge |
| 1:38.9 | flaming cake out of the basement rec room. If you're not privy to the world of Barbie cakes, don't worry. |
| 1:45.2 | We'll dive into that history later in the show. |
| 1:47.9 | But first, my conversation with the oh-so-charming Chuck Pollanick. |
| 1:55.8 | Hi there. |
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