Audible Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with Audible Originals

Audible celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with Audible Originals including the Jose Andres episode of Your Mama’s Kitchen from The Obama’s Higher Ground Productions and Vanessa in Bed starring Karla Souza. Both titles available now at www.audible.com. 

Karla Souza

Getting paid $80,000 to stay in bed for 13 weeks? That sounds like a dream job for Vanessa, one of 12 participants chosen for a bedrest study.

​Played by Karla Souza (How to Get Away with Murder), Vanessa is looking forward to earning extra money while putting her troubles—her mom’s death, an unplanned pregnancy, and a falling out with her cousin/best friend Brigid (Zoë Winters of Succession)—on pause. Vanessa quickly realizes, however, that she cannot outrun her problems...especially with her legs beginning to atrophy.

​Written by Audible Emerging Playwright Diana Grisanti, Vanessa in Bed is an inventive, subversive new comedy that explores the courageous choices we all must make for the sake of our own humanity and beyond.Playwright Diana Grisanti was awarded a commission through the Audible Emerging Playwrights Fund, an initiative dedicated to developing innovative original plays driven by language and voice. As an Audible-commissioned playwright, she received funding and creative support to develop Vanessa in Bed.

Episode 5: José Andrés
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. After ruminating on the impact his parents had on him, José jumps into the kitchen with Michele to show her - and listeners - how to cook a favorite recipe of his: his mother’s roasted red peppers.

José Andrés is a Spanish-American chef and owner of several renowned restaurants across the country. He’s known for bringing the concept of tapas to America, his avant-garde dishes, and his continuing humanitarian work: In 2010, he founded the World Central Kitchen in response to the Haiti earthquake and has since organized meals in or in support of Cuba, Uganda, and most recently, Ukraine. In 2015, he was appointed by President Obama as an ambassador for citizenship and naturalization. In 2022, he was appointed by President Biden as a Co-Chair of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition,

"Tell me about your mama's kitchen." That’s the simple request which begins each episode of this Audible Original podcast from acclaimed journalist Michele Norris (NPR’s All Things Considered, The Washington Post) and Higher Ground, Barack and Michelle Obama's media company.​

Every week, hear guests like Michelle Obama, Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach, Matthew Broderick, D-Nice, José Andrés, and more explore the complexities of family life and how their earliest culinary experiences helped shape their personal and professional lives—and of course each guest brings a recipe for a favorite dish from their youth so you can taste a bit of their story.
With a delicious buffet of actors, authors, chefs, musicians, and more, the rich conversations that flow from that initial, simple prompt reveal the histories, memories, and cultures that emerge from the kitchen, the heart of the home where we are nourished physically and spiritually. Some of our most valuable and vulnerable moments happened there as we watched parents struggle with bills, wrestle with shifting family dynamics, or figure out new roles for themselves as feminism changed the national terrain. Your Mama’s Kitchen is a podcast about cuisine and culture, ingredients and identities, and the meals and memories that make us who we are.

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by Iconic Chica mag Editors