This week I wanted to tell you about something special. Another podcast I'm excited to share,

especially as someone who loves to cook called Your Mama's Kitchen. It's a show about cuisine

and culture, ingredients and identities, and the meals and memories that make us who we are.

Host Michelle Norris talks to Michelle Obama, Glennon Doyle, Gail King, and so many other guests

about the complexities of family life and how their earliest culinary experiences help shape

their personal and professional lives. And of course, each guest shares a recipe for a favorite

dish from their youth so you can taste a bit of their story.

In this episode, singer John Legend takes us back to his roots in Springfield, Ohio,

where he was an academic overachiever and a musical prodigy. John opens up about his early,

complicated relationship with his mother and how over time they came together.

Plus, we learn how to make his mom's special mac and cheese.

You can hear more of your mama's kitchen wherever you get your podcast.

My dad did all that he could, you know, while still working every day.

Did he step into the kitchen then?

No, I was cooking by then.

I was like D-cooked for the house.

Yeah.

All right, paint a picture of that for me.

It's me roasting a chicken sometimes, sometimes making chili or spaghetti or hamburger helper or rice of roni.

Yeah, whatever I needed to make. So you really ran the kitchen.

Yeah, I ran the kitchen. That's impressive. Starting at like, you know, 12 years old.

Hello, hello, and welcome back to your mama's kitchen. This is the place where we explore how we are shaped as adults by all the kitchens that we grew up in as kids.

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