What's for Dinner at Burning Man
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Every Labor Day weekend since 1990, tens of thousands of people descend upon a Nevada desert to build an elaborate, eccentric, temporary town called Black Rock City. This is the famed Burning Man festival, and once you’re inside the gate, nothing (but ice) is for sale and bartering and trading are forbidden.
So how do 70,000 people feed themselves at the Black Rock Desert festival without electricity or running water?
Burning Man runs on a gifting economy, and food is a major currency. On this Very Special Episode of Your Last Meal, we’ll explore Burning Man’s culinary camps, where festival attendees set up makeshift restaurants and feed thousands of Burners for free. You’ll meet the creator of Cheese & Advice Palace, who says waiting in line for a grilled cheese sandwich is part of the experience, and the chef behind Domakase, a desert sushi bar.
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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. |
| 0:15.1 | 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, |
| 0:26.4 | and we dig into the history, culture, or science of those meals with experts from around the world. |
| 0:31.6 | Today on the program, we're going to Burning Man. |
| 0:34.7 | Well, not really. |
| 0:35.9 | But we are going to talk about how and what 70,000 people |
| 0:40.5 | cook and eat in the middle of a dry, dusty, hot Nevada desert with no electricity and no running |
| 0:46.4 | water, using only endless creativity, ingenuity, and passion to make culinary magic. If you're |
| 0:54.0 | unfamiliar with Burning Man, it's kind of tough to boil it down in a quick explanation. |
| 0:58.5 | But it's basically a huge counterculture arts festival, where thousands of people come together |
| 1:03.7 | every Labor Day weekend to create a full-fledged, thriving, temporary metropolis called BlackRock |
| 1:10.0 | City. |
| 1:10.7 | And on the last night, they burn a huge wooden |
| 1:13.8 | man. Now, you have to buy a ticket to get in, but after that, no money is exchanged. There is no |
| 1:20.2 | buying, no bartering, no trading, but there is gifting. And food is a huge part of the sharing |
| 1:26.7 | economy. I chat with comedian and writer |
| 1:29.2 | Moshe Kashi, who has been to Burning Man 24 times. Every meal at Burning Man ever has been the most |
| 1:35.4 | nourishing and refreshing thing I have ever tasted in my life. And I connect with two long-time burners |
| 1:40.3 | who created two of Black Rock City's popular culinary camps. |
| 1:44.9 | Cheese and advice and domocase. |
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