Why You Don’t Stand Next to Brad Meltzer in a Lighting Storm

Your Mama’s Kitchen

Higher Ground

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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New York Times Bestselling author Brad Meltzer joins the show to talk about his Sesame Street home in Brooklyn and the several influential kitchens that followed. He tells Michele about his mom’s gift for interior design, visits to his future father-in-law’s restaurant as a teenager and a propensity for the men in his family to get struck by lightning - literally. Plus he shares the fried conch recipe from the famous Miami restaurant and Civil Rights landmark, Jumbo’s!

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1:33.4	My family fought and we argued and it was great.
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1:43.1	Like he thought I was wearing too fancy of a shirt when we moved to Florida. And he took a bottle of ketchup and he's like when squeezable ketchup first started. He says, this shirt's so good. I'm going to put squeeze this ketchup on. And my mother was like, Richie, don't do it. Don't do it. He's like, I'm going to do it. She's like, don't do it.
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