Former KIRO Newsradio features reporter

Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle is a former Edward R. Murrow award-winning KIRO Newsradio feature reporter who still hosts the James Beard Award-nominated podcast "Your Last Meal."

Seattle mom debuts Venture Kits to teach kids to be entrepreneurs

Venture Kits are educational games that teaches kids how about business and learn life skills. Each kit comes with the tools to start a baking business.
10 years ago

Bricks and Clicks: Online retailers are opening physical stores

What do Warby Parker, Bonobos and Amazon have in common? Bricks and Clicks. They all have opened physical stores in Seattle. What's the advantage?
10 years ago

Swedish opens postpartum depression treatment center

About 15-20 percent of new moms experience postpartum depression. Now Swedish has opened the first treatment center of its kind on the west coast.
10 years ago

Why do so many kids have food allergies these days?

If it seems like more kids have food allergies these days, it's true. Food allergies have increased by 50 percent in the last 15 years. This could be why.
10 years ago

Test your cocktail for date rape drugs at Seattle club, Chop Suey

Several people have reported being drugged at Capitol Hill bars recently. Now, this local bar will help you test your cocktail for date rape drugs.
10 years ago

Let your mom embarrass you at Bring Your Parents to Work Day

Amazon is hosting Bring Your Parents To Work Day, a tradition LinkedIn started. A third of parents surveyed don't really know what their kid does.
10 years ago

Seattle-raised comedian Quincy Jones fights cancer with comedy

Seattle born comedian Quincy Jones was diagnosed with cancer and given a year to live. A year later, he's still performing comedy.
10 years ago

ReBoot Seattle gives skills to moms returning to careers

ReBoot Seattle launches this week giving tech training and boosts confidence for people who have taken time off to raise their children.
10 years ago

The People Walker will take you on a walk, for a fee

There are dog walkers and personal trainers, so why not a people walker? This man has started a business where he'll take you on a walk for $7 a mile.
10 years ago

White chef of Vietnamese restaurant blasted for appropriating pho

Bon Appétit magazine posted a video, featuring a white chef who owns a pho restaurant in Philly. The video outraged so many people.
10 years ago

Get SPAM’d at Puyallup’s Washington State Fair

It was the 20th year of the Great American SPAM Championship, where home cooks bring sweet and savory dishes with the iconic canned meat, SPAM.
10 years ago

Why Irritable Male Syndrome gives men man-periods

Irritable Male Syndrome is described as a 'man period' -- when a man feels a lot of irritability because of fluctuating, and low, testosterone levels.
10 years ago

Seahawks Zac Brooks explores his passion for interior design

Zac Brooks has a backup plan if he doesn't stay a Seahawk: interior design. He designed an apartment for a local sports writer. It's gotten some attention.
10 years ago

Smith Tower just got upgraded with a speakeasy and more

Smith Tower, once the tallest building in Seattle, got an upgrade. Take the elevator up to a roaring '20s style speakeasy for starters.
10 years ago

Shoreline teen spreads message of love with Archers hip-hop

Shoreline's Nathan Nzanga wrote the song 'Truce' with hip-hop group Archers, after several black men were shot and killed by police officers.
10 years ago

Chefs are bringing back true, forgotten Native American food

Native American chefs are starting a movement, bringing back forgotten cuisine, free from European influences. It is truly Native American food.
10 years ago

Washington’s first insect farm says bugs are the future of food

Insects are the most sustainable and environmentally-friendly protein there is. Washington's first insect farm is now raising mealworms for insect food.
10 years ago

Calling all Elvi: Seattle’s annual Elvis impersonator contest

You can see about 20 Elvis impersonators perform this weekend in Seattle. Rachel talks more than one Elvis impersonator to get the skinny on The King.
10 years ago

Rachel Belle launches new podcast: Your Last Meal!

Every other week on Your Last Meal, Rachel Belle will interview a person of note - a famous singer or actor or athlete or chef - about what their last meal would be. Then she'll take that dish on a journey and look at the history of the food, maybe figure out who makes the very best version -- it can go anywhere, depending on what food they choose.
10 years ago

Depression in the startup world: A former Seattle CEO speaks out

Running a startup is highly stressful and can lead to depression, anxiety or worse. Seattle's Rand Fishkin talks about why he stepped down as CEO.
10 years ago

Local dentists say, yes, you do have to floss

Americans threw their floss boxes into the river and cheered with glee upon hearing flossing was dropped from health guidelines. Dentists say not so fast.
10 years ago

Meet the chiseled, sizzling man on covers of 476 romance novels

He has played all the parts: pirate, highlander, sexy stud muffin. But he also has a 9-5 job. Meet the man behind the cover of 476 romance novels.
10 years ago

In the kitchen with the creator of the original Cinnabon cinnamon rolls

Jerilyn Brusseau made people swoon with her cinnamon rolls, so she was recruited to create the Cinnabon people still eat today. What is she up to now?
10 years ago

How climbing Mt Rainier is changing the lives of formerly homeless addicts

Tacoma Rescue Mission executive director Mike Johnson created Climbing Out of Homelessness to build a sense of community among homeless addicts. He says addiction is most often caused by loneliness, lack of relationships and childhood trauma. His ten month program ends with a climb up Mt Rainier.
10 years ago