Tell me about your mama's kitchen.

That simple question opens up a flood of delicious memories,

and it's at the center of my new

audible original podcast called Your Mama's Kitchen.

My mama's kitchen was chaos.

I remember visually lots of brown, lots of peeling wallpaper,

brown plastic tile on the floor.

This teeny tiny little room was where we did everything.

We grew up there.

We became teenagers, adults in that small space.

I'm Michelle Norris.

The kitchen is usually the heartbeat of our homes.

It's the place where we're nourished, physically and spiritually,

whether it's learning an heirloom recipe, chopping garlic at the counter,

or playing cards at the kitchen table.

Our loudest laughter is in the kitchen.

But so too are some of our most vulnerable moments.

Watching parents struggle with bills,

wrestling with shifting family dynamics,

or figuring out new roles when feminism changed the national terrain.

The kitchen is a place where families who came to America

from distant lands held onto a piece of that place they used to call home.

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