This episode contains discussions of eating disorders, so please take care while listening.

When I was in elementary school, my parents bought a lake house in the cat skills, this little

cabin, and that kitchen was different.

Those tables were filled with really rich intellectual discourse, because it was my mom's

professor friends and my dad's work friends, and I always remember having one year on

like whatever game we were playing battleship, monopoly, sorry, and one year in the adult

conversation.

Welcome to your mom's kitchen, the podcast that explores how we are shaped as adults by

the kitchens we grew up in as kids.

I'm Michele Norris.

Today we're joined by the actress Carrie Washington, who starred in series like Little Fires

everywhere in films such as Django Unchained and Confirmation, where she portrayed Anita

Hill.

You probably know her best from her Peabody award-winning TV show Scandal, where she played Olivia Pope.

The complicated, sometimes conniving, but always compelling, crisis manager, who dominated

every space she entered.

We could spend an eternity talking about Carrie Washington's career in Hollywood as an actor,

a thespian, and an activist, but we wanted to know more about her beyond the stage, and

the way that her family's kitchens have left an imprint on her life.

It turns out that Carrie is an enthusiastic cook herself.

She loves to prepare big spreads for her friends and family, and in many ways that's not surprising.

She's played some hard charging characters on stage and on screen, but in real life she's

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