Hey, everybody, it's Rob Lowe here.

If you haven't heard, I have a podcast that's called Literally with Roblo.

And basically, it's conversations I've had that really make you feel like you're pulling up a chair at an intimate dinner between myself and people that I admire, like Aaron Sorkin or Tiffany Haddish, Demi Moore,

Chris Pratt, Michael J. Fox. There are new episodes out every Thursday. So subscribe, please,

and listen, wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Jesse Sparks, the host of the podcast The One Recipe, from the team behind the

Splendid Table. Each week, we talk to chefs and cooks about that magical recipe they

can always rely on. This season, we feature some amazing recipes, including lambstuff

pizzas, sticky shrimp bun me, and brown butter tahini noodles. We guide you through all the ingredients and techniques you'll need to recreate each dish.

Plus, we've got step-by-step videos of every recipe.

You can find our videos on YouTube, at The Splendid Table,

or search for the one recipe in your podcast app or on Instagram.

Music app or on Instagram. I'd left home to come to New York to go to college, and I would call my mother, and she was like,

I would ask her, how was your day?

And she would always say, oh, it was a good day.

I had some string beans, and I made some rice and I smothered some pork chops. I mean, it always started with food.

Hello and welcome back to your mama's kitchen. This is the podcast where we explore how we are shaped in some ways as adults by the kitchens that we grew up in as kids. And today I am joined by an old friend on this episode. He's an actor on stage, on screen, on television.

He's an author.

I'm talking about Wendell Pierce.

He's a Juilliard train actor who steps into roles and always seems to make them memorable.

He starred in films like Malcolm X, Ray, Hackers, and Selma.

He won acclaim portraying Willie Lohman in the revival of

Death of a Salesman. We've seen him in TV across decades in Law and Order, Chicago, PD,

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