Salt & Straw's Kim & Tyler Malek: Grandma's Cooking (Re-Air)
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
From pear & blue cheese to bone marrow with bourbon smoked cherries, Salt & Straw has always been experimental, and eager to weave local products and ingredients into their flavors. On this delightful episode, we hear how the highly successful brand got started (the story involves Portlandia, an ice-cream maker from Goodwill and Cheetos), the grossest flavor head ice-cream maker Tyler ever developed and, of course, their last meals – both chose sentimental dishes made by their Grandma Malek.
Speaking of grannies, we’ll meet the owner of Enoteca Maria, a Staten Island restaurant where the food is cooked by a rotating cast of grannies from around the world. This month alone, the Nonnas of the World program welcomes women from 12 different countries, eager to share their unfussy homestyle cuisine.
It’s hard to imagine a world without ice cream. Food historian Sarah Lohman shares the history of the sweet treat, and says we have Black enslaved Americans to thank for the invention of the creamy, delicious ice cream (and scooping tool!) we know and love today.
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| 0:00.0 | Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights. |
| 0:05.6 | Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show. |
| 0:11.1 | Hi, guys. I just got back from vacation. I was in Oaxaca. You can see photos of me unable to get a tan |
| 0:16.6 | in Mexico at Hello Rachel Bell on Instagram. So I am regrouping and re-airing a very fun episode |
| 0:24.2 | with the founders of Salt and Straw ice cream. The reason I chose this particular episode is because |
| 0:29.8 | we are getting ready to launch season two of my Cascade PBS TV show, The Nosh. And episode |
| 0:35.8 | two features Salt and Straw. The Nash kicks off Thursday, April 3rd. |
| 0:40.8 | And there will be new episodes every Thursday night for eight weeks. If you know me, you know that I am |
| 0:45.4 | very into low waste and zero waste. So the first two episodes of the show are focused on this |
| 0:51.5 | in regards to food and cooking. And every April, Salt and Straw |
| 0:55.8 | launches their upcycled ice cream series, where they serve ice cream flavors made from |
| 1:00.2 | ingredients that would have otherwise ended up in a landfill. So I went down to Salt and Straw |
| 1:04.5 | headquarters in Portland and I got to help create an upcycled flavor on the fly with co-owner |
| 1:09.9 | and head ice cream magician Tyler Malick. |
| 1:12.5 | I hope you watch the Nash premieres April 3rd. You can watch on TV if you live in Washington or |
| 1:17.3 | BC or you can watch from anywhere at any time on the Cascade PBS app or at cascade pbs.org. |
| 1:25.2 | Okay, let's get into the episode. |
| 1:37.0 | I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal. |
| 1:40.7 | The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most, and we dig into |
| 1:44.5 | the history, culture, and science of those meals with experts from around the world. Today on the |
| 1:49.3 | program, Kim and Tyler Malick, owners of salt and straw ice cream. What is your relationship |
| 1:55.9 | to start? Because I'm assuming people probably think you're married all of the time. We have been asked that in the state of Oregon it's illegal to marry your cousins, |
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