Episodes

  • How Heritage Becomes Flavor with Marcus Samuelsson

    How Heritage Becomes Flavor with Marcus Samuelsson
    Oct 13 2026

    Chef Marcus Samuelsson joins Your Mama’s Kitchen to reflect on how his Ethiopian roots and Swedish upbringing shaped his relationship with food, culture, and home. He shares how his personal experiences inform his approach to hospitality at Red Rooster, where he’s made it his mission to ensure everyone feels welcome, represented, and like they belong at the table.


    Marcus also discusses his upcoming book, Back to Green: Rediscovering a World of Delicious, Healthy Eating, arriving October 20, 2026. The book explores plant-forward cooking traditions from around the world, celebrating the ingredients, cultures, and stories that connect us through food.

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    47 mins
  • Peacefully Bringing 65 People to the Table with Tony Shalhoub and Josie Adams

    Peacefully Bringing 65 People to the Table with Tony Shalhoub and Josie Adams
    Oct 6 2026
    How do you share a house, a kitchen, and a week with 60+ relatives and still want to do it again next year? Award-winning actor Tony Shalhoub and his daughter Josie Adams, co-authors of the upcoming cookbook "We Thought They'd Never Leave", share their family's rules for curating the perfect family week under one roof. It's a primer for anyone with a beach house, a holiday crowd, or a family that wants to stay close. Tony also takes us back to his childhood kitchen in Green Bay, with his nine siblings, and a basement stove where his aunties baked Syrian bread for the whole neighborhood. Plus, we learn to make warm stuffed grape leaves and a Lebanese green bean dish called Loubieh.

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    59 mins
  • From Korea to Queens: Min Jin Lee on the American Dream

    From Korea to Queens: Min Jin Lee on the American Dream
    Sep 29 2026
    Your Mama’s Kitchen is back! We’re kicking off our new season with best-selling author Min Jin Lee (“Pachinko”), whose latest book, “American Hagwon,” hits shelves on Sept 29. In today’s episode, Min Jin takes us inside the kitchen in Elmhurst, Queens where her family built a new life after immigrating from Korea. Around the table, food became a language for everything they were carrying: pride, sacrifice, exhaustion, and the weight of starting over in America. It’s an intimate story of immigration, and how the kitchen table shaped her writing.

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    43 mins
  • Coming Soon: Your Mama's Kitchen Season 3

    Coming Soon: Your Mama's Kitchen Season 3
    Sep 22 2026
    Your Mama's Kitchen is cooking up a whole new season of stories - and it all starts with one simple question that opens the door to so much more: "Tell me about your mama's kitchen." Every week, acclaimed journalist Michele Norris (NPR's All Things Considered, MSNOW) invites guests to explore the complexities of family, and how their earliest culinary experiences shaped their personal and professional lives. Your Mama’s Kitchen is a podcast about cuisine and culture, ingredients and identities, and the meals and memories that make us who we are. New episodes drop every Tuesday.

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    2 mins
  • How Carla Hall Went from Theater Kid to Top Chef

    How Carla Hall Went from Theater Kid to Top Chef
    Dec 9 2025
    Top Chef star and renowned cooking show judge Carla Hall takes us back to the Sunday Suppers she grew up going to at her grandmother's house outside of Nashville, Tennessee. Carla details the unconventional road she took to becoming a chef, including being a theater kid and modeling in Paris. She also opens up about learning of her grandmother's dementia through the way she made her mac & cheese. Plus, we learn how to make her family's extra special pound cake.

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    55 mins
  • Happy Thanksgiving From Your Mama's Kitchen

    Happy Thanksgiving From Your Mama's Kitchen
    Nov 25 2025
    On this special Thanksgiving episode of Your Mama's Kitchen, we take a walk down memory lane to reminisce on some of the greatest holiday hosting tips we've gotten from our guests. Gayle King shares her secret to a tender turkey, Stephen and Evie Colbert talk about their cheesy holiday tradition, Ina Garten shares her personal hosting musts and more!

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    35 mins
  • Padma Lakshmi’s Take on American Cuisine

    Padma Lakshmi’s Take on American Cuisine
    Nov 18 2025
    Former Top Chef host and best-selling author Padma Lakshmi takes us back to her early childhood in Chennai, India where she was raised by her grandparents and then to New York City where she would skate to meet her mom at a falafel cart for lunch as a teen. She opens up about why it's so important now more than ever to appreciate and redefine what it means to be an 'American' dish. Plus, she teaches us how to make her mama's Yogurt Rice.

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Phil Rosenthal is Anthony Bourdain “If He Was Afraid of Everything”

    Phil Rosenthal is Anthony Bourdain “If He Was Afraid of Everything”
    Nov 11 2025
    Food adventurer Phil Rosenthal joins the show to talk about his childhood, his love of fluffy eggs, and how his breakout hit, Everybody Loves Raymond, came to be. He reminisces about the trip to Paris that changed his life and what he thinks money should really be spent on. Plus, he previews what’s on the menu at his new Los Angeles diner with Nancy Silverton—including an ode to his parents’ nightly Egg Cream, recipe included.

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    1 hr and 2 mins