Your Mama’s Kitchen

Michele Norris

Booking Overview

An interview podcast focused on food, family history, cultural identity, and the formative memories connected to cooking, typically featuring prominent actors, authors, chefs, musicians, and media personalities. Agencies could credibly pitch established public figures with compelling culinary or family stories, notable chefs, bestselling authors, entertainers, and cultural leaders; booking difficulty is high because the show’s guest roster includes nationally recognized personalities.

Metrics

Episodes: 92

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Instagram: 55.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

ymk@highergroundproductions.com

michelemabelle@icloud.com

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Host

Michele Norris - Acclaimed journalist and former correspondent for NPR’s All Things Considered and The Washington Post.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Established public figures—including prominent chefs, bestselling authors, acclaimed actors, musicians, television personalities, and cultural leaders—with a compelling family, food, or heritage story.

Required Achievements:

Top television appearances, Bestselling books, Successful culinary careers, Acclaimed entertainment careers, National media recognition

Recent Guest Discussions

Carla Hall - Her Grandmother’s Sunday Suppers, Her Path From Theater And Modeling To Becoming A Chef, Family Memories, And Pound Cake.

Padma Lakshmi - Her Childhood In Chennai And New York, American Cuisine, Cultural Heritage, And Her Mother’s Yogurt Rice Recipe.

Phil Rosenthal - His Childhood Food Memories, Family Traditions, The Origins Of Everybody Loves Raymond, Travel, And His Los Angeles Diner.

Recent Topics

Food, Food Culture, Family Heritage, Culinary Traditions, Recipes

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Your Mama’s Kitchen

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

September 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 immig...

Coming Soon: Your Mama's Kitchen Season 3

September 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, ing...

How Carla Hall Went from Theater Kid to Top Chef

December 09, 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast....

Publicly listed emails

ymk@highergroundproductions.com

michelemabelle@icloud.com

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