Judy Blume

Your Mama’s Kitchen

Higher Ground

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Bestselling children’s book author and literary legend Judy Blume takes us back to her childhood New Jersey kitchen in the ‘40s, where she ate lamb chops and baked potato scrapings as a baby. She also shares a precious memento: her mother’s little yellow recipe box, filled with complicated, mid-century dishes her mother never made. We’ll hear about Judy’s major sweet tooth, which is perfectly captured by the recipe she chose to share with us: her mother’s sweet noodle pudding.

Judy Blume is a bestselling American author of children’s, young adult, and adult fiction novels. She’s written over 25 books which have sold over 80 million copies. She’s best known for her classic—and at the time controversial—children’s books, including Tales of A Fourth Grade Nothing and Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's me Sam B, and it's no secret. I'm pro-choice. Yes, that one, but also others.
0:07.0	Because I'm not just pro-choice. I'm pro-choice as. Those crazy life-altering decisions that shift our life path and bring us to
0:15.4	where we are today. My next choice? Starting this new podcast with Lemonadeh Media
0:20.3	called Choice Words, where I interview people I admire about the biggest decisions
0:24.8	they've made in their lives. Choice Words is out now, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:29.8	I'm Chris Morocco, food director of Bonapete and Epicureus, and this is Dinner S.OS, a new podcast from Bonapete.
0:41.3	On each episode, we'll take a call from a home cook facing a real dinner emergency.
0:45.6	Then I'll work with one of our editors or someone from our amazing test
0:49.8	kitchen to try and solve it. Because cooking for the people you love should inspire joy
0:55.0	without a sight of stress.
0:57.0	Make sure you're following dinner SOS wherever you're listening now. When I started to write, I don't know what she thought. She was proud of me, but she didn't like the
1:17.8	mothers in my books. And she said, just leave mothers out of your books.
1:23.2	And I was like, I'm really sorry, but I can't do that
1:26.9	because my characters have mothers.
1:29.6	They aren't you.
1:31.8	And she said, but all my friends will think they are. She was very concerned
1:36.3	about what her friends would think.
1:40.3	Welcome to your mama's kitchen, the podcast that explores how we're shaped as
1:46.1	adults by the kitchens we grew up in as kids. I'm Michelle Norris. On this
1:51.3	episode we get to spend time with a living literary legend
1:54.6	Judy Bloom. She's written more than 25 books and if you grew up in America
1:59.1	you've probably read or at least have seen some of her classic kids books including Superfudge or
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