W Kamau Bell

Your Mama’s Kitchen

Higher Ground

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Comedian, activist, and creative executive W. Kamau Bell talks about growing up in different cities across the country with his mother and spending summers with his father’s side of the family in Mobile, Alabama. He opens up about what it means to be a good parent and reminisces on his grandmother’s lost recipe for her fried pies.

W. Kamau Bell is known for his social commentary on race, justice, and inequality. He hosts and executive produces the Emmy Award-winning CNN docuseries United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell.

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0:00.0	I told my mom, like, I signed you up for snack and she was just like,
0:10.0	son of a...
0:12.0	Because it was like, you're supposed to make something.
0:14.0	And she just, like, grabbed the box of jiffy cornbread.
0:17.0	She sort of, like, threw something else in to make the thing seem a little more homemade.
0:21.0	Kids were like, because I wasn't probably a white private school at that point.
0:24.0	Ooh!
0:25.0	Oh!
0:26.0	And she just laughed about the things that those kids thought they were getting,
0:29.0	like, homemade African American classic deep home recipe.
0:37.0	Welcome to Your Mama's Kitchen,
0:39.0	the podcast that explores how we're shaped as adults by the kitchens,
0:43.0	we grew up in as kids.
0:45.0	I'm Michele Norris.
0:46.0	My guest today is W. Kamal Bell.
0:49.0	And among other things, we talk about his quest to find a taste of home.
0:53.0	And for him, that means the taste of fried pies.
0:57.0	Now, some of you hear the word fried pie and you think of those little apple fritter things
1:02.0	you get at McDonald's or those hostess treats.
1:05.0	That's not what I'm talking about.
1:07.0	I am talking about fried pies that are made in somebody's kitchen,
1:11.0	little pouches of pie crust dough that are fluted around the edges
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