Amina Brown

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249 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3 Jul

Amina Brown’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Moth · American Dreams: The Moth Radio Hour · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

So I do, and I put together a little tasting dish, take it back over to my grandma.

She tastes it and she says, now baby, I think you got the texture right, but it's a little salty.

I go back over a period of weeks and I try this until finally I hand her that tasting dish.

And when it comes back to me, there are no collard greens left in it.

She had no notes for me, which means I have graduated.

I can move on to my next dish.

I mean, I got a lot to learn.

I gotta make the mac and cheese and the candy yams, the cabbage and the rutabagas.

So we do this over a period of a few months until I finally learn all the dishes.

Then I meet a man.

Things get serious with him.

And so I say it's time for me to make my grandma's food for him.

I make him this meal, and several months later, he proposed to me.

Which means, grandma's magic, it really does work.

My boyfriend becomes my fiance, becomes my husband, we buy our first home, and my mother-in-law gives me the perfect symbol of a southern woman's domesticity, the standing KitchenAid mixer.

It doesn't matter if you use it.

It's just supposed to sit there on your counter so other people can be jealous of you.

But me, I wanted to use mine.

So I called my grandma and I said, Grandma, I'm turning 35.

This is what I want for my birthday.

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