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Your Mama's Kitchen

By: Michele Norris
Narrated by: Michele Norris
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  • “Tell me about your mama's kitchen.” That’s the simple request which begins each episode of this Audible Original podcast from acclaimed journalist Michele Norris (NPR’s All Things Considered, The Washington Post) and Higher Ground, Barack and Michelle Obama's media company.

    Every week, hear guests like Michelle Obama, Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach, Matthew Broderick, D-Nice, José Andrés, and more explore the complexities of family life and how their earliest culinary experiences helped shape their personal and professional lives—and of course, each guest brings a recipe for a favorite dish from their youth so you can taste a bit of their story.

    With a delicious buffet of actors, authors, chefs, musicians, and more, the rich conversations that flow from that simple initial prompt reveal the histories, memories, and cultures that emerge from the kitchen—the heart of the home—where we are nourished physically and spiritually. Some of our most valuable and vulnerable moments happened there as we watched parents struggle with bills, wrestle with shifting family dynamics, or figure out new roles for themselves as feminism changed the national terrain. Your Mama’s Kitchen is a podcast about cuisine and culture, ingredients and identities, and the meals and memories that make us who we are.

    Find the podcast transcripts here: https://www.audible.com/ymk-transcripts.
    ©2023 Higher Ground LLC (P)2023 Higher Ground LLC
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Episodes
  • Episode 32: Jesse Tyler Ferguson

    Episode 32: Jesse Tyler Ferguson
    Apr 24 2024

    Tony Award-winning actor and Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson talks about finding his “tribe” in his local theater program as a kid in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He opens up about coming out to his dad three times and what it’s like for him to be a dad himself now, in real life. Plus, we learn how to make an especially southwestern dish: green (hatch) chili chicken stew.

    Jesse Tyler Ferguson is an American actor best known for his role on the multiple Emmy Award-winning sitcom Modern Family, where he played gay lawyer, husband, and father Mitchell Pritchett for the entirety of the show’s 11-season run. He also won a Tony Award for his role in the 2022 revival of Take Me Out.

    Find the episode transcript here: https://www.audible.com/ymk/episode32

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    38 mins
  • Episode 31: Eric Kim

    Episode 31: Eric Kim
    Apr 17 2024

    Eric Kim, staff writer and essayist for The New York Times food section, introduces us to his mother Jean’s exceptional Korean cooking and to the suburban Atlanta kitchen he grew up in. It was there that Eric developed a love for traditional Korean cooking, and it was the same kitchen he would return to as an adult to write his debut cookbook, Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home, an instant New York Times bestseller. His mother Jean was his chief recipe taster and his inspiration for the delicious kimchi jjigae found in its pages.

    Eric Kim was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. A former digital manager for the Food Network and contributing editor for Saveur magazine, he now hosts regular videos on NYT Cooking’s YouTube channel and writes a monthly column for The New York Times Magazine. He lives in New York City with his rescue dog, Q.

    Find the episode transcript here: https://www.audible.com/ymk/episode31
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    38 mins
  • Episode 30: Natalie Morales

    Episode 30: Natalie Morales
    Apr 10 2024

    Journalist and television news personality Natalie Morales takes us back to her globetrotting childhood as a daughter in a military family. She reminisces on living in Spain during her teenage years and the food she ate in her Puerto Rican and Brazilian household, plus she teaches us how to make the perfect flan.

    Natalie Morales co-hosts the Daytime Emmy award-winning show The Talk on CBS. Before that, she served over two decades at NBC News, anchoring the Today show and making appearances on Dateline and NBC Nightly News. She has a cookbook, At Home With Natalie: Simple Recipes for Healthy Living from My Family's Kitchen to Yours, which was published in 2018.

    Find the episode transcript here: https://www.audible.com/ymk/episode30
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    35 mins
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