Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast - Introducing Your Mama’s Kitchen

Episode Date: August 16, 2023

“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. Episodes available weekly starting August 30th anywhere you listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tell me about your mama's kitchen. That simple question opens up a flood of delicious memories. And it's at the center of my new audible original podcast called Your Mama's Kitchen. My mama's kitchen was chaos. I remember visually lots of brown, lots of peeling wallpaper, brown plastic tile on the floor. This teeny tiny little room was where we did everything. We grew up there. we became teenagers, adults in that small space.

I'm Michelle Norris. The kitchen is usually the heartbeat of our homes. It's the place where we're nourished physically and spiritually, whether it's learning an heirloom recipe, chopping garlic at the counter or playing cards at the kitchen table. Our loudest laughter is in the kitchen. But so too are some of our most vulnerable moments. Watching parents struggle with bills,

wrestling with shifting family dynamics, or figuring out new roles when feminism changed the national terrain. The kitchen is a place where families who came to America from distant lands held onto a piece of that place they used to call home. It's where the people we love most chased away life's furies with skillets and spatulas. Each week on your mama's kitchen, all talk to guests, actors, authors, chefs, musicians, and more

about how the food and the cook. culinary traditions of their youth shape their lives in interesting and sometimes surprising ways. I cannot wait to serve up this Audible original podcast. Join me every week starting August 30th, anywhere you listen.