I'm Jonathan K. Parton, welcome to K-PART.

If you're a news nerd, you know the name Michele Norris.

She started here at the post where she's now a columnist and then moved to ABC News.

But if you don't know her name, you definitely know her voice from her years as the host

of NPR's All Things Considered until 2011.

Today, Michele is back in front of the mic with your mom's kitchen, her fabulous new podcast

from Audible and Higher Ground Productions.

In this conversation, first recorded for Washington Post Live on September 6th, Norris talks

about the great conversations she has with folks about their mom's kitchen.

First guest was none other than Michele Obama and the importance of that room in the life

of a home and a family.

Everything happens in the kitchen.

If you have a party, where does everybody wind up?

They wind up in the kitchen.

In your house, where's your loudest laughter?

It's often in the kitchen, but so too are your toughest moments.

Let me ask you this, because you've been in print, you've been on television, you've

been in radio.

Now you're in podcasts.

Why this medium then will get into specifically about your Obama's kitchen?

Well, you know, podcasting is almost an extension of radio.

It's wonderful because people can listen whenever they want.

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