Gayle King
Your Mama’s Kitchen
Higher Ground
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Television titan Gayle King reflects on her and her mama’s tight-knit relationship including her upbringing in Turkey and then Maryland. Gayle famously doesn’t cook, but she shares not one… but TWO recipes with us. Her mama’s traditional Mac & Cheese and her famous Thanksgiving Jello Dessert.
Gayle King is a TV personality and broadcast journalist. She’s about to host a new, weekly primetime show on CNN with Charles Barkely set to launch this fall. She’s received the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. Before this, she co-hosted CBS’s flagship morning program, CBS Mornings beginning in 2012.
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| 0:00.0 | Living in Turkey breakfast was not a big deal and I went to my friend Halle's house and |
| 0:12.1 | I had 13 pieces of bread and you know they kept asking me would you like more and didn't |
| 0:16.4 | occur to me to stop after say number four and when I went and told my mom she was mortified |
| 0:22.0 | she called them up and was very apologetic and said I'm so sorry but I didn't know |
| 0:26.0 | was a little kid they kept asked I said mom they kept asking me welcome to your mama's kitchen |
| 0:35.3 | the podcast that explores how we are shaped as adults by the kitchens we grew up in as kids |
| 0:41.3 | i'm michelle norris the kitchen is the emotional heartbeat of our homes so many important things |
| 0:47.7 | happen there meals memories laughter and sometimes tough stuff all of its simmers inside us forever |
| 0:54.4 | and shapes who we become in interesting and sometimes surprising ways the kitchen is the most |
| 1:04.9 | important room in the home even for folks who don't like to cook all that much and that includes |
| 1:10.6 | our guests today gal king you know gal king she's a tight-knipped television broadcasting going |
| 1:16.2 | head-to-head with big name politicians artists and controversial figures who find themselves on |
| 1:21.6 | the hot seat well that's not the topic of today's conversation we're here to talk about gale and |
| 1:26.7 | she always handles herself with grace and grit she gets high ratings and high marks because she |
| 1:32.3 | pulls interesting answers out of people gale king i'm so glad that we could do this together i michelle |
| 1:37.8 | i'm so glad to see you thank you for asking me thank you for rolling off the air and rolling |
| 1:42.4 | because it's you i will thank you just put that out now i feel say that again i we're just |
| 1:46.4 | sure that because of michelle actually i'm on my way to the airport and i delayed my flight |
| 1:51.2 | an hour and a half so i could be here with you okay now i'm feeling you're i'm puffed up i'm |
| 1:55.1 | getting coffee in my chair whoo well this is a show where we talk to people about their mom's |
| 2:00.0 | kitchens okay and you have had an interesting path in life because you spent time in Chevy Chase |
| 2:05.9 | you spent time overseas in Ankara turkey yes you spent time in the bay area when i ask that question |
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