This week, I wanted to share something special, a podcast I can't get enough of, 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, Jose Andres, 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 rocky relationship with his mother and how over time they came together to nurture one

beautiful family. Plus, we learned how to make his mama special mac and cheese.

Okay, here comes the episode.

You can find more your mama's kitchen anywhere you listen.

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 rony.

Yeah, whatever I needed to make.

So you really ran the kitchen?

Yeah, I ran the kitchen.

That's impressive.

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