I didn't really eat my mother's food growing up because we didn't live together.

I think that was a moment for me of being empathetic towards my own mom.

Because you never know what someone else's experience was and my mom just wanted to feed me.

Welcome to your mom's kitchen.

The podcast that explores how we're shaped as adults by the kitchens we grew up in as kids.

I'm Michelle Norris.

The kitchen is the emotional heartbeat of our home.

So many important things happen there.

Meals, memories, laughter, and sometimes tough stuff.

All of its simmers inside us forever and shapes who we become in interesting and sometimes surprising ways.

In today's episode, I get to spend time with one of my favorite people.

I really love this dude.

I'm talking about the legendary DJ called D-Nice.

D-Nice stays on the road, spinning records all over the world for the biggest parties and the brightest names.

Oprah Quincy, the Obama's, the Kennedy Center.

He was recently the official DJ for the Oscars and here's the thing.

Throughout his life during the struggle years back in the Bronx when he was still called Derek Jones.

And in the full flourish of his success at this point, the kitchen has always been a space that fosters growth and community.

A place that wards off loneliness.

A place where he could sit at the kitchen counter and create a virtual party for hundreds of thousands of housebound people

during the beginning of COVID who all tuned into Club Quarantine on his Instagram account.

We're celebrating each other all over the world.

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