The Leftovers with Ken Burns
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from Ken Burns, the prolific, award-winning filmmaker who has been making historical documentary films for PBS for more than 40 years.
Ken lost his mother when he was just 11 years old, a tragic event that has shaped both his personal life and career; in last week’s episode of Your Last Meal he said his mother’s death is what led him to filmmaking. She also shaped his taste in food. Ken shares his favorite dessert, one his mother made for his birthday when he was a child.
Ken shares what it’s like making films with his eldest daughter, Sarah Burns; why he’s not a big fan of Christmas; and his favorite movie theater snack.
Ken Burns' latest film, Leonardo Da Vinci, premieres on Cascade PBS in two parts on Monday, November 18 and Tuesday, November 19 at 8:00 pm, and will be available to stream with the Cascade PBS app.
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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. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to The Leftovers. I'm Rachel Bell. The Leftovers is audio left on the cutting room floor from last week's Your Last Meal interview. And today, you'll hear never before heard cuts from Ken Burns, the award-winning documentary filmmaker who has been airing his films on PBS for more than 40 years. Ken's films usually focus |
| 0:39.1 | on U.S. history. The American Buffalo, the Civil War, Jackie Robinson, the National Parks, |
| 0:44.0 | country music. But his latest is Leonardo da Vinci, a two-part series set to air on PBS on November |
| 0:50.4 | 18th and 19th. Last week on Your Less Me meal, we learned that Ken co-owns a restaurant |
| 0:56.9 | in the tiny New Hampshire town that he's lived in for 45 years. |
| 1:00.4 | It's called the restaurant at Burdix. |
| 1:02.3 | You have a dish named after you. |
| 1:04.4 | The Ken salad. |
| 1:05.6 | The Ken salad. |
| 1:06.9 | So I kept sort of saying, would you try this? |
| 1:09.9 | And they grilled some salmon. And then I had them switch it to bib lettuce. And there was something missing. And I had them add avocado. And that was heading in the right direction. And we shaved some Parmesan and had a light lemon vinaigrat. It was off the menu for 10 years. And they would just serve it to me and whoever knew how to ask for it. |
| 1:28.2 | And then they put it on one summer and it was the best seller. |
| 1:30.6 | If you miss last week's full episode with Ken, go back and listen to that first. |
| 1:35.3 | But if you're all caught up, let's get into the leftovers with Ken Burns. |
| 1:41.6 | I'm going to do a little speed round with you. |
| 1:44.0 | So number one, what is your perfect birthday cake or if you're not a cake person, perfect dessert? |
| 1:49.4 | My mother made it. She called it wacky cake because it was all made in one pan and then baked in that pan. |
| 1:54.6 | Yeah. It's chocolate, chocolate. It's just chocolate chocolate. That's fine. My gal still ask it for their birthday, so I just am very |
| 2:01.9 | happy to, you know, give up my asceticism, my supposed asceticism about desserts to have chocolate |
| 2:08.4 | cake. My ex-boyfriend's mom makes that. She calls it crazy cake. And her granddaughter loves it. Yeah. |
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