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Your Mama’s Kitchen

Malika Andrews Found her Sportscasting Voice in the Kitchen

Your Mama’s Kitchen

Higher Ground

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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ESPN Sports journalist Malika Andrews takes us back to her childhood kitchen in Oakland, California where she learned to speak up and raise her eyebrow (when the situation called for it). She opens up about what it was like to grow up in a multicultural household and how she dealt with not looking like her personal superhero -- her mom. We hear about how Malika strives to be an inspiration for the next generation of young women hoping to break into sports. Plus, we learn how to not skimp on the butter when making her mama's special carrot cake.

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1:14.1

My mother is beautiful. She says it's reddish, she says it's not reddish blonde,

1:22.4

but reddish blonde curly hair and freckles. And people when I was younger, and even today,

1:26.8

they would say, oh, well, you look so much like your mom. And I was like, I don't see it because my mom's white and I'm not.

1:28.6

And so when I was a little kid, I asked my mom, am I going to look like you when I grew up?

1:34.3

Because I was a kid looking for ways to have something in common with the person who is my superhero, my mommy.

1:41.9

And she said, well, no, honey, you're not going to look like me when you grow up.

1:47.5

And I cried because I wanted to have something.

1:51.7

I was searching for that thing to have in common with my mother.

2:00.7

Hello, hello, and welcome back to your mama's kitchen. This is the place where we explore

2:04.8

how we are shaped as adults by the kitchens that we grew up in as kids, not just the food, but all

2:11.5

the stuff that happened there, the lessons, the memories, the things you saw on the little

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