Life Is a Party and They Are The Hosts: A Conversation with Brie Larson & Courtney McBroom
Your Mama’s Kitchen
Higher Ground
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Oscar-winning actress, Brie Larson, and her best friend, chef and dinner party guru Courtney McBroom, drop by to talk about their new cookbook Party People — a love letter to low-stakes, high-fun get togethers. The duo swap stories about their shared obsession with hosting (and, unexpectedly, Taco Bell!), and how Brie's mom, an over-the-top party planner, sparked her lifelong love of bringing people together. They also reminisce about working side by side on Lessons in Chemistry, where Courtney was head food consultant and Brie learned to see cooking in a whole new light. Plus, they share not one but two family recipes: Courtney’s grandma’s famous Texas sheet cake and a pistachio pie that almost didn’t make the cut.
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| 0:00.0 | Your Mama's Kitchen is brought to you by Rivian. |
| 0:09.1 | My mom was the biggest party thrower ever. |
| 0:14.3 | It would throw me incredibly elaborate birthday parties, like a two-day Indiana Jones, |
| 0:20.1 | scavenger hunt. My seventh birthday, she turned, |
| 0:23.5 | they were, she was a chiropractor, turned her office into a casino. And all of my friends |
| 0:28.9 | were dressed in like cocktail outfits and all the parents were like waiters and we like ate |
| 0:33.6 | hors d'oeuvres and like drank Martinelli's and like played craps. It was bizarre and so fun. |
| 0:39.6 | And we did the macarena. It was the best. |
| 0:48.5 | Hello, hello. Hello, hello and welcome back to your mama's kitchen. This is the place where we |
| 0:53.3 | explore how we |
| 0:54.2 | are shaped as adults by the kitchens that we grew up in as kids, and not just the food, but all the |
| 1:01.0 | stuff that happened there, the laughter, the birthday parties, the science experiments, the bills |
| 1:06.6 | that piled up on the kitchen table, all that stuff. I'm Michelle Norris. And we are lucky today |
| 1:12.4 | because we are joined by not just one, but two brilliant guests, Academy Award-winning actress |
| 1:19.0 | Brie Larson, and chef, cookbook author, and dinner party expert, Courtney McBroom. Now, you've probably |
| 1:27.2 | seen Brie in several blockbusters, like 21 |
| 1:30.2 | Jump Street, Scott Pilgrim versus the world, Lessons in Chemistry Room as the Captain Marvel in the |
| 1:37.6 | Captain Marvel Enterprise. And you may have seen or tasted some of Courtney's work without even knowing it, |
| 1:43.7 | because she is the head |
| 1:45.3 | food consultant on lessons in chemistry and the former culinary director of Mofuuku Milk Bar |
| 1:51.6 | in New York City. Mmm, delicious. We love that. She's also the founder of Ruin Table, a fun |
| 1:58.6 | event series about all kinds of dinner parties. We did say, she's a dinner |
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