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# Best of Julia Sweeney: Nanaimo Bars
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/podcasts/your-last-meal/2024/04/best-of-julia-sweeney-nanaimo-bars/
- Published: 2024-04-11T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-05T19:51:12.000Z
- 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_6ed96942-c158-47e3-8962-0d586f0c1497

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 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 with 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.

\*This is a replay of an episode from 2022\. [Rachel lost her voice](https://rachelbelle.substack.com/p/missing-my-voice) & hopes to be back with a brand-new episode next week!\*

Follow along on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/hellorachelbelle/?hl=en&ref=cascadepbs.org)!

Watch Rachel's new Cascade PBS TV show [The Nosh with Rachel Belle!](https://www.kcts9.org/show/the-nosh-with-rachel-belle/episodes?ref=cascadepbs.org)

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