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Getting to spend a year in the kitchen with her, in coffee shops, writing headnotes, recording

her talking about her childhood memories.

It helped me understand her in a way that I don't think I could have had we not worked on this book.

I always had like a real respect for how she raised us, but just my mom is like the most resilient person in the world.

Hello, hello, and welcome back to your mama's kitchen.

This is the place where we explore how we are shaped as adults by the kitchens that we grew up in as kids and all the stuff that happened there.

The music, the memories, unpacking the groceries doing homework at the kitchen table.

I'm Michelle Norris.

And our guest today could not be more perfect for a show called Your Mama's Kitchen.

She is a restaurant critic.

She is a world-class food journalist. She's a master

chef judge, and she is a cookbook author. And get this, her cookbook was written with her mother.

So she explored her mama's kitchen while she was writing that cookbook. Priya Krishna has said,

quote, as a food writer, who's eaten my way through many, many restaurants, I can still say I have never tasted cooking as creative and unique as hers.

She's talking about her mama there. I can't wait to talk to Priya about her mother's cooking, about all the ways that that kitchen influenced her.

And we're catching her while she's grabbing lunch. You may have heard her fork

scraping against a bowl. What are you eating there, Priya? I'm eating spinach and feta orzo that I made

last night. Oh, leftovers. That sounds delicious. It was one of my rare nights off. And so I got to like luxuriated making a nice dinner and watching a movie and packing.

Oh, that sounds packing because you're moving.

So we're catching you mid-move also.

Well, I'm betting that I'm betting that the spinach feta orzo is probably better now the next day?

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