The Healing Powers of Smothered Chicken (from Your Mama’s Kitchen)
The Sam Sanders Show
KCRW & Sam Sanders
4.9 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
To celebrate Thanksgiving, we’re sharing a special episode of Your Mama's Kitchen.
In the podcast, host Michele Norris and guests explore how our earliest culinary experiences shape our personal and professional lives. Plus, every guest shares a recipe for a favorite dish from their youth so you can taste a bit of their story.
Sam was on the show recently where he took Michele and listeners back to his roots in Texas. Everyone in his house was a cook and there was a local "rabbit" man who sold all kinds of meat from his truck; including possum. Sam also opens up about a special moment he shared with his mom as she was recovering from a stroke, while cooking her special Smothered Chicken Recipe.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners, it is the season of giving. |
| 0:03.0 | Get that warm, fuzzy feeling. |
| 0:05.1 | Make a donation, pick out some cozy KCRW merch, or send meals to local food banks. |
| 0:11.1 | Donate now at kCRW.com slash give. |
| 0:24.4 | Hey, y'all, Sam Sanders here with a very special treat this week. |
| 0:29.7 | I'm going to share an episode from a very sweet podcast called Your Mama's Kitchen. |
| 0:35.3 | This show was hosted by a former colleague who I look up to a lot, Michelle Norris. |
| 0:40.2 | On this show, she explores the complexities of family and how our earliest culinary experiences help shape the rest of our lives. I was a guest on Michelle's show |
| 0:46.2 | recently, and let me tell you, I told her everything and too much. I opened up about how I grew up as |
| 0:53.8 | the son of a Southern Soul Food Mama and a |
| 0:58.6 | cattle rancher dad. I talked a bunch about my culinary memories of childhood and we went there. |
| 1:06.2 | We got real deep. We got real tender. I think it's a good conversation for this holiday |
| 1:10.6 | season, especially this |
| 1:12.2 | holiday week when we're all thinking about food and possibly spend a bunch of time in our mama's |
| 1:18.7 | kitchens. All right. Without further ado, here is my conversation with Michelle Norris from your |
| 1:23.9 | mama's kitchen. Enjoy. |
| 1:31.0 | This podcast is brought to you by our friends at Alloy Health. |
| 1:38.5 | I also remember this older black man |
| 1:41.9 | who would just come by in his pickup truck |
| 1:44.3 | selling produce and like |
| 1:46.6 | animals he caught. |
| 1:48.5 | And every few months |
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