Michele Norris explores the family kitchen in her new podcast, Your Mama’s Kitchen.
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Why does everyone end up in the kitchen at gatherings? Is it the smells? The warmth? The bottle of champagne chilling in the fridge, just begging to be popped?
Whatever it is (probably the champagne), the kitchen is the heart of the home for families of all kinds.
Journalist, writer and former host of All Things Considered, Michele Norris, is exploring the significance of the family kitchen in her new podcast, Your Mama’s Kitchen.
Norris asks her guests like former first lady Michelle Obama, CBS Mornings host Gayle King and actor Matthew Broderick about their mother’s kitchens — what they remember, what they learned there and what it means to them.
What is it? The family kitchen.
First, let’s hear about the kitchen Norris grew up in:
- “Our kitchen was also the hub of life. It had a TV, had a little radio in there. She was always listening,” Norris told All Things Considered. “She was one of the early adopters for public radio up there in Minnesota Public Radio. But also, my sisters would take control and then go to the end of the dial, and dance music would come on and we would dance in the kitchen.”
- “My mama’s kitchen was organized because Betty Norris is organized,” Norris says. “It was delicious because Betty Norris is a great cook. And it was adventurous. My mom used cookbooks to explore worlds that otherwise weren’t available to her.”
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