Jesse Tyler Ferguson: Green Chile Enchiladas

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Rachel Belle

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🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The Modern Family star grew up in New Mexico (the Chile Capital of the World!) where the native green chiles find their way into everything from burgers to mac & cheese.

Jesse hasn’t lived in Albuquerque since high school, but he keeps his freezer full of New Mexico green (Hatch) chiles and green chile enchiladas are his forever favorite comfort food.

The retired director of the Chile Pepper Institute tells host Rachel Belle about the history and migration of spicy peppers from the Americas to the rest of the world, which involves everything from bird poop to Christopher Columbus.

Then Jesse tells us about his lunch with Weird Al at one of the country’s most woo-woo restaurants!

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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.
0:15.3	I'm Rachel Bell and this this is your Last Meal.
0:22.5	The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most,
0:25.9	and we dig into the history, culture, and science of those meals with experts from around the world.
0:31.5	Today on the program, Emmy-nominated actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
0:36.6	Jesse is best known for his 11-year run playing Mitchell Pritchett
0:40.6	on Modern Family, but he's also a Tony Award-winning Broadway performer. Jesse grew up in
0:47.2	Albuquerque, New Mexico, and he has had a lifelong love affair with, you guessed it, green chili.
0:52.8	So I call the now retired director of the Chili Pepper Institute in Las Cruces, New Mexico,
0:58.6	a man who started his career in another branch of horticulture.
1:02.5	I actually did my Ph.D. on cabbage for sauerkraut.
1:05.9	And unfortunately, sauerkraut was a dying industry, but they moved up.
1:10.0	Wait a minute. You got a Ph. a PhD in cabbage sauerkraut?
1:13.9	Yeah, breeding or looking at varieties
1:15.9	that would be the best sauerkraut in Wisconsin.
1:18.7	All that coming up later in the show.
1:21.3	But first,
1:22.5	my conversation with Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
1:29.6	Okay. I just want to start with a bonding question slash statement.
1:34.5	I was very excited when I read that you also don't like the word foodie.
1:38.6	Yeah.
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