Your Mama's Kitchen Transcripts

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.

Andy García tells Michele about growing up among Cuban exiles in Miami, where the talk—and the transcendent food—was always of home.

As guest Conan O'Brien says of his family kitchen, "If I'm a clay pot, this is the kiln where I got baked. This is where it all happened."

For screen and theater star Matthew Broderick, who grew up among artists and actors, the kitchen was center stage for family drama.

Kerry Washington opens up about her new memoir, "Thicker than Water," the importance of a kitchen in the Catskills, and how a pit stop in India changed her life and career.

Comedian, activist, and writer W. Kamau Bell remembers his grandmother's fried pies: the single-serving dessert that’s rooted in the South, just like him.

Renowned chef and humanitarian José Andrés shares tales about his upbringing in Spain, where croquettes, paellas, bread crumbs, and fire taught him valuable life lessons.