The Obamas Are Making a Kids’ Food Show on Netflix

There must be something going on in the stars this week, because there’s some major star power getting into food TV: First, Chrissy Teigen finally gets a cooking show on Hulu, with David Chang, no less and now Netflix may be topping that news with a food show for kids produced by Barack and Michelle Obama. It’s called Listen to Your Vegetables and Eat Your Parents and we already love it.

For the former first lady, encouraging kids to eat more healthfully is a long-time passion project. Consider her vegetable garden at the White House, school-lunch improvement programs, and Let’s Move campaign. With the new show, Obamas’ production company Higher Ground brings that same mindset to television.

The half-hour episodes of Listen to Your Vegetables, created by Drunk History’s Jeremy Konner and actress, writer, and producer Erika Thormhalen, will “take young children and their families around the globe on an adventure that tells us the story of our food.”

We don’t know too much more, including whether or not the show will be animated or use actual actors, and there’s no word yet on if we’ll get in-person visits from Barack and Michelle on the show. But we can hope!!! Barack was certainly a big hit when he last appeared on food television, for an episode of Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown, and Michelle’s Turnip for What video and support of breakfast on Sesame Street proves she has what it takes.

Like much of the Obamas’ post-presidency work, the show seems designed to maximize the couple’s reach in affecting world change. The goal of the company, the Obamas say, is “to create content that embodies the core values of celebrating the human spirit through struggles and triumph; facing adversity through resilience, determination, and hope; lifting up new voices and stories to bring about change; and transcending divides to bring us together.”

We think that’s something we can all get behind.