The Caribbean Kitchen That Nourished Michelle Buteau

Your Mama’s Kitchen

Higher Ground

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Actress, comedian and writer Michelle Buteau joins the show to talk about growing up in a lively Caribbean household in New Jersey. She shares how music, dance and food shaped her upbringing and the smells and flavors that took over her childhood kitchen. We also learn about the healing power of humor and how she found the confidence to become a comedian. Plus, she tells us how to make her family’s Jamaican Brown Stew Chicken.

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1:10.5	I remember a time where my mom would like straighten my hair and cover my freckles, and my dad had a Jerry girl.
1:15.6	And like we had to always feel like we had to fit into these faces, but you can't put a circle to square.
1:21.6	And the time that we were able to be us, it was when those joys were closed.
1:33.9	Hello, hello, welcome back to your mama's kitchen.
1:40.5	This is the place where we explore how we are shaped as adults by the kitchens that we grow up in as kids.
1:41.8	All the stuff that happens.
1:44.4	There are the food, the nourishment, the arguments, the laughter. I'm Michelle Norris. And I'm so excited to introduce you to the person I'm going to
1:50.0	talk to today because I love her work and I know that she is so much fun. I'm talking about
1:55.3	Michelle Boutotow. You know her from seeing her comedy specials, from seeing her on TV, her Netflix series, Survival of the Thickest, is inspired by her autobiographical book of essays, and it is a truly feel-good series. And I mean feel-good in a deep down in your soul kind of way. She has created characters who learn and love
2:20.3	and celebrate their authentic selves. Watching her on screen and listening to her podcast feels
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