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# Julia Sweeney: Nanaimo Bars
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/podcasts/your-last-meal/2022/03/julia-sweeney-nanaimo-bars/
- Published: 2022-03-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-05T19:51:57.000Z
- Description: By the end of this episode, you'll feel like the charming, hilarious and down-to-earth Julia Sweeney is your best friend! Julia and host Rachel Belle discuss everything from her true love of eating alone (and how that makes her husband feel) to the 60th birthday gift she gave herself: never dieting
- Author: Rachel Belle
- Tags: Your Last Meal, #podcast, #delete-this-tag, #dovetail_68afd31c-ffe5-48f0-a6ce-89bf2b285974

By the end of this episode, you'll feel like the charming, hilarious and down-to-earth [Julia Sweeney](https://juliasweeney.com/?ref=cascadepbs.org) is your best friend! Julia and host [Rachel Belle](https://www.instagram.com/hellorachelbelle/?hl=en&ref=cascadepbs.org) discuss everything from her true love of eating alone (and how that makes her husband feel) to the 60th birthday gift she gave herself: never dieting again.

Julia wants to cap off her last meal with Canada's favorite, no-bake, layered dessert: the Nanaimo bar! Rachel chats with Joyce Hardcastle, the contest winner who created the [city's official recipe](https://www.nanaimo.ca/about-nanaimo/nanaimo-bars?ref=cascadepbs.org) back in 1986, and the current mayor of Nanaimo, about the history of the bar and how ubiquitous it is in the Vancouver Island city it was named after.

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