Food that Connected Susan Orlean to the Land her Parents Fled

Your Mama’s Kitchen

Higher Ground

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Author Susan Orlean joins to talk about her upbringing in Shaker Heights, Ohio. She describes the life skills her mom failed to teach and the Hungarian food that reminded her parents of the home they could never return to. Plus we learn about her mother’s cocktail party treat, cheese balls.

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Alloy Health.
0:03.8	May your mornings always be bright.
0:06.3	Your breakfast's worth waking up for.
0:08.5	And early starts always be smooth with Kerrygold butter.
0:12.5	May your pancakes always be fluffy and flavorful.
0:15.7	And buttery crumpets always go down a treat.
0:18.9	May your toast always be tasty.
0:22.6	And your hollandaise always rich. May your bagels always be warm,
0:25.6	and your moments always be golden.
0:27.6	Kerry Gold.
0:29.6	Naturally golden butter from grass-fed cows.
0:32.6	My eye I grew up, well, there were civil up
0:44.4	around the country and in Cleveland.
0:49.4	My dad built a lot of Section 8 housing,
0:53.9	and after the civil uprisings in Cleveland,
0:59.6	he stuck us kids in the car and said,
1:03.0	we're going to go down, drive into the city.
1:05.9	I want you to see that not everybody lives the way you live,
1:10.6	and take a look at, you know, maybe why this happened.
1:24.7	Hello, and welcome back to your mama's kitchen.
1:27.2	This is the podcast who we explore how we're shaped as adults by all the things that happened in our kitchens, not just the food, but the card games, the homework, the arguments, and the laughter.
1:38.7	I'm Michelle Norris, and I'm so glad you're here.
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