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May your mornings always be bright.

Your breakfast's worth waking up for.

And early starts always be smooth with Kerrygold butter.

May your pancakes always be fluffy and flavorful.

And buttery crumpets always go down a treat.

May your toast always be tasty.

And your hollandaise always rich. May your bagels always be warm and your moments always be golden. Kerry Gold. Naturally golden butter from

grass-fed cows. When I was a kid, I was fascinated with food.

Even if it was just buttered noodles, I wasn't talking to anybody.

I wasn't looking at anybody.

I was absorbed in the act of eating, very slowly, annoyingly slowly, and just in a trance with this food.

And I heard that and I was jealous of my younger self.

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

This is a place where we explore how we're shaped as adults by the kitchens that we grew up in as kids.

Not just the food, but all the stuff, the laughter, the sibling rivalry, the cookie, baking, and the memory making. I'm Michelle Norris, and my guest today is Andrew Ray. He's someone who literally makes food jump off the screen right

onto your plate. You probably know him best as Babish from the YouTube sensation cooking with

Babish. It's a highly popular YouTube show where he recreates food that you've seen

in movies or on television shows and where he shares basic culinary skills. He's also the author

of three cookbooks, Eat What You Watch, Binging with Babish, and his latest cookbook is called

Basics with Babish, and that focuses on making all kinds of foods for all levels of cooks.

And he joins us here today. And we usually begin with a question about your mom's kitchen,

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