Hey there listeners, future callers, and cooking enthusiasts. This is Dinner S.O.S.S.

The show Where We Help You Save Dinner dinner or whatever you're cooking. I'm Chris

Morocco food director of Bonapete and Epicureus. My guest today is Michelle

Norris. You might know Michelle from her work as a journalist at the water. is Michelle

from her work as a journalist at the Washington Post or ABC News or from

her Decade Plus stint at NPR where she co-hosted all things considered. You might know her from her Peabody Award

winning Race Card Project or the two books she's authored. Or more recently you may know her as the host of the podcast, Your Mama's Kitchen.

Welcome to Your Mama's Kitchen, the podcast where we explore how the food and

culinary traditions of our youth shape who we become as adults. I'm Michelle Norris.

We're going to learn more. On Your Mama's Kitchen, Michelle and her guests talk about food and childhood food memories

as an entryway into conversations about who we are and where we come from.

And as the title suggests, Michelle starts each episode by asking her guest to tell

listeners about their mama's kitchen.

I think that we are moving so fast that we think about the big things in our life when we reach back to our

childhoods, maybe like the holidays or the day that you left for college or something like that. But when you talk about the kitchen table, it's kind of mundane.

And yet in that simplicity, that's the gristle of who we become. Michelle joined me in the studio last month

to answer some listener questions and to talk some more about her show

and the kinds of deep far-ranging conversations she gets to have.

And I have to say, I'm a little envious of her guest list.

I mean, we're talking Michelle Obama,

John Batiste, Judy Bloom,

and looking at that list, I had a question for Michelle are these high profile

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