The Nosh with Rachel Belle

In 2024, Seattle was declared America’s #1 pizza city. Uproar ensued. Host Rachel Belle visits two out-of-the-delivery-box pizza chefs to determine what is “Seattle pizza”? Tasting local ingredients, like the Dungeness crab Detroit-style pies at Moto Pizza and traditional Japanese flavors at chef Mutsuko Soma’s Pizzakaya pop-up, Rachel explores this existential question one slice at a time.

Host Rachel Belle travels to Portland to meet Salt & Straw’s Tyler Malek, who’s redefining food waste solutions through a partnership with the nonprofit Urban Gleaners. Together they sift through rescued food, like produce and pastries, to create an upcycled ice cream flavor on the fly. We learn how Urban Gleaners gets discarded, but perfectly good, food to folks in the community who need it most.

Sustainability chef and PBS TV host Joel Gamoran raids Rachel Belle’s home fridge. Together they turn trash-bound food scraps like woody asparagus ends and potato peels into a restaurant-worthy meal. With his zero-waste cooking hacks, Joel proves that the stems, peels and cores we mindlessly throw away can be transformed into gourmet creations. An inspiring and environmental way to save some cash!