LIVE Q&A with Rachel Belle on her debut cookbook
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Host Rachel Belle celebrated the launch of Open Sesame at Book Larder, Seattle's only dedicated cookbook store. The event sold out, but you can listen in!
Rachel is usually the one asking the questions, but on November 13 the tables were turned! She was in conversation with Becky Selengut, a beloved Seattle cookbook author, cooking instructor, podcast host and chef.
Rachel tells the magical story of how she was offered a book deal (despite having a small social media presence!), a reminder of the importance of building in-person, real-life professional relationships. She tells Becky what it was like to write a cookbook in only six months, describes how the testing process works, shares her biggest recipe fails & talks about how the word “fart” ended up in Open Sesame. Plus, an audience Q&A!
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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 Last Meal, the show where I usually interview celebrities about their last meals and then dig into the history, culture, or science of those meals with experts from around the world. |
| 0:32.8 | But today's show is different because I'm the one getting interviewed. |
| 0:37.4 | If you listen to your Last Meal, if you follow me on Instagram, if you get my newsletter, |
| 0:41.8 | or if you are my dry cleaner gynecologist or limousine driver. |
| 0:46.1 | Yeah, I have my own limousine and limousine driver. |
| 0:49.2 | Not poor. |
| 0:50.3 | You probably know that I published my first cookbook in November. |
| 0:55.7 | It's called Open Sesame, |
| 1:02.6 | 45 sweet and savory recipes for tahini and all things sesame. And I may be biased, but she is real cute. It has beautiful photos, an incredibly good recipe for chocolate miso wopi pies |
| 1:09.3 | with tahini whipped cream. And it is a place where I can |
| 1:12.3 | finally boss you around about what tahini's to buy and how to make your mediocre hummus so |
| 1:18.7 | silky and delicious, you will never buy store-bought hummus again. I got to launch Open Sesame |
| 1:24.5 | Into the World on November 13th at Booklarder, which is my favorite bookstore. |
| 1:29.4 | It is an all-cookbook bookstore in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood. |
| 1:32.9 | And if you haven't been and you love cookbooks, it is worth a pilgrimage. |
| 1:37.3 | Lucky for me, this event sold out. |
| 1:40.4 | See, now you understand the limo driver. |
| 1:42.7 | Very rich, very important. |
| 2:01.3 | But we recorded the talk so you could listen to it now. I am in conversation with my hilarious friend, Becky Selangut. Becky is a Seattle cookbook author, a private chef, podcaster, and cooking instructor. Becky has been cooking professionally for 30 years, and I really respect her taste. So when she told me that she made a couple of recipes from Open Sesame, and she loved them, |
| 2:07.2 | I was relieved, relieved that I didn't write a garbage book. |
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