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# Zach Braff: Chicken Parmigiana
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/podcasts/your-last-meal/2018/06/zach-braff-chicken-parmigiana/
- Published: 2018-06-01T00:11:35.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-05T19:53:07.000Z
- Description: Actor, filmmaker and restaurant-owner Zach Braff (Scrubs, Alex Inc, Garden State) was born and raised in New Jersey - home to the highest percentage of Italian Americans in the country. And for his last meal, he's sticking close to his roots!
- Author: Rachel Belle
- Tags: Your Last Meal, #podcast, #delete-this-tag, #dovetail_16224b71-60de-4cc9-a9a3-a49782b1e297

Actor, filmmaker and restaurant-owner Zach Braff (Scrubs, Alex Inc, Garden State) was born and raised in New Jersey - home to the highest percentage of Italian Americans in the country. And for his last meal, he's sticking close to his roots! 

[Host Rachel](http://www.hellorachelbelle.com/?ref=cascadepbs.org) Belle digs into the cheesy, saucy and fascinating history of Italian food in America with Krishnendu Ray, Department Chair of the Food Studies Program at NYU.

Then she talks with cookbook author and Long Island native Amy Pennington about how to make the perfect red-checkered-tablecloth-and-Chianti-bottle-candleholder chicken parm. 

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