Your Mama's Kitchen Transcripts

Author Tayari Jones remembers, "I felt like someone pulled back a curtain and said, 'Young lady, this whole world could be yours.' And when I looked through that curtain, I didn't see any pots or pans.”

The chef, artist, food activist, and multihyphenate Bryant Terry breaks down stereotypes around Black food and remembers his grandmother's kitchen.

Famous funny woman Leslie Jones gets introspective about her upbringing and the cornbread dressing that reminds her of home.

Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves-McConaughey share memories, lessons, and recipes from their childhood kitchens in Texas and Brazil.

Beloved actor George Takei opens up about being forced into US internment camps as a child during World War II, the birth of Star Trek, and, quite literally, his Japanese culinary roots.

Grammy-award-winning singer, songwriter, and composer Jon Batiste talks freedom, family, and mouth-watering bowls of his mama's New Orleans-style gumbo.

"Salt Fat Acid Heat" chef Samin Nosrat tells Michele about her favorite lemony, sour, and Iranian flavors that sprang from her family kitchen.

Wilco frontman and bestselling author Jeff Tweedy opens up in an honest conversation about addiction, the work of undoing unhealthy patterns, and a family recipe so good it's known simply as The Dish.

What did "The Omnivore's Dilemma" author Michael Pollan eat growing up? Garden-fresh produce, his mom's gourmet cooking, and Chicken Kiev.

In this conversation, we reach back to Al Roker’s childhood in Queens, where his mama cooked for a big family on a tight budget out of a tiny kitchen. Her recipe for Jamaican Oxtail Stew still makes Al swoon.

Comedian Hari Kondabolu talks about his mother's dark humor and out-of-this-world peanut chutney.

Uzo Aduba's mom had a special knack for creating food and family rituals that helped a little girl who grew up as an outsider become one of America's most celebrated actresses.