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Oprah Winfrey needs no introduction — nor does her ideal last meal. In a 2019 interview with People magazine, the TV host, media mogul, and food line creator singled out one particular dish that she’d savor as her last-ever meal on Earth. That dish? Pasta, which Oprah would enjoy not only for her last meal, but also in the days leading up.
“If I were going to choose my last week, they would all be pastas,” Oprah proclaimed in her People interview. Her love for all things pasta isn’t entirely surprising, given her arsenal of pasta recipes both online and in print. She even previously launched a frozen skillet line dedicated to the dish. In fact, Oprah’s website has published recipes for everything from a butter-free lemon pasta to a vegetable and feta-forward Skordostoumbi pasta. Likewise, Oprah’s “Food, Health, and Happiness: 115 On-Point Recipes for Great Meals and a Better Life” cookbook — available on Amazon — also includes an array of healthy pasta options. Collectively, these dishes prove that pasta is not only one of Oprah’s favorite foods, but versatile enough to enjoy for seven days in a row.
As for the kinds of pasta dishes that Oprah would prefer? She doesn’t specify any one recipe in her People interview, though it’s safe to assume she likes her pasta with plenty of additions.
All the ways Oprah Winfrey would enjoy pasta in her final days
Pasta invites plenty of opportunities for variation. So, even if Oprah Winfrey ate pasta every day for a week, it’s likely that no two meals would be exactly the same. However, the format of those pasta dishes may be similar, as Oprah also singled out her love of mixing different ingredients in her People interview.
“I love a thing all thrown together in a skillet,” she shared in the article. “It’s part of the life that I grew up with. When I grew up, tuna casserole was one of my favorite things in the world because you get all the stuff mixed together.”
She continued to explain that she loves to combine foods, which suggests that she probably enjoys pasta dishes with all kinds of delicious additions. Think: chicken-filled pasta bowls, ravioli tossed alongside sausages, and macaroni salads with a bunch of vegetables. There are even more complex recipes like seafood-stuffed shells and lemon and spinach lasagna, which broaden the pasta category all the further. While seven days of pasta may sound like six too many, with so many pasta shapes, sauces, and recipes to choose from, Oprah may actually need more than a week to maximize pasta’s full potential.
