SMNTY Classics: Michele Norris

Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Society & Culture

4.0 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Award-winning journalist, story collector and teller Michele Norris joins us for a wide-ranging discussion on women, race and identity - and how we often learn about it and see it play out in the kitchen. We chat about the podcast Your Mama's Kitchen, The Race Card Project and the power of curiosity in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed human.
0:09.2	Hey, this is Annie.
0:10.5	And Samantha.
0:11.4	And welcome to Stuff I Never Told You, production of IHeart Radio.
0:33.2	And today we are bringing back a classic that's relatively new, but we talked about it in our recent end of the year roundup of our favorite episodes.
0:37.2	And it is our interview with Michelle Norris. I just loved it. I thought the conversation was so
0:41.1	fantastic. I am kind of all struck by her. I grew up listening to her with my mom in the kitchen.
0:51.3	So for her to have a podcast called Your Mama's Kitchen, just feels very, yeah, it feels really perfect to me.
0:59.0	And it's so moving.
1:00.2	Like every episode is so moving.
1:02.7	And she's done so much.
1:03.6	She's been on NPR.
1:05.3	She did the race card project.
1:08.1	And so we just have so much to talk about. As mentioned in the end of the year wrap-up, we did discuss the mac and cheese and we did do it.
1:19.6	Just saw pictures of it. A mine. I froze some of mine and I've looked it up, it should still be good.
1:28.7	What?
1:29.2	A year?
1:30.1	Yeah.
1:31.0	Because it was the Super Bowl.
1:32.6	We were getting the big game.
1:33.9	Don't sue me.
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