Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast - Coming Soon: Your Mama's Kitchen Season 3

Episode Date: September 22, 2026

Your Mama's Kitchen is cooking up a whole new season of stories - and it all starts with one simple question that opens the door to so much more: "Tell me about your mama's kitchen." Every week, acclaimed journalist Michele Norris (NPR's All Things Considered, MSNOW) invites guests to explore the complexities of family, and how their earliest culinary experiences shaped their personal and professional lives. 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. New episodes drop every Tuesday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tell me about your mama's kitchen. You walk in and there's this gravitational pull towards the kitchen. That's where everything really in a sense happened. The house just turned around the kitchen. My mama's kitchen was eclectic. My mother's kitchen was perfectly designed. I don't know how many hours I sat at that table and listened to stories. Hello, hello, I'm Michelle Norris.

And welcome back to another season of Your Mama's Kitchen. Over the last three years, I have had nearly 100 conversations with actors, comedians, musicians, people whose names you know and whose work you love. And I've asked every single one of them the same question. Tell me about your mama's kitchen. And you know what? I've never gotten the same answer twice. Because the kitchen table is where Conan O'Brien learned how to be funny.

The kitchen sink is where Jennifer Hudson first learned how to sing with her grandma. because only actor Tony Shalub can tell you about the Syrian bread baking in his family's basement. Only best-selling author Min Jin Lee can draw a line from her seat at the kitchen table to the way she builds beautiful characters on the page. Only artist Carrie Mae Weems can tell you about why and how she eats popcorn every single Saturday morning. And the only place they're telling these stories is right here on your mama's kitchen. New episodes drop September 29th. Subscribe now to your mom. Thomas Kitchen on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast. See you soon.