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The Kitchen Sisters Present
The Kitchen Sisters Present… Stories from the b-side of history. Lost recordings, hidden worlds, people possessed by a sound, a vision, a mission. Deeply layered stories, lush with interviews, field recordings and music. From powerhouse NPR producers The Kitchen Sisters (The Keepers, Hidden Kitchens...
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The Birth of Rice-A-Roni
The worlds of a young Canadian immigrant, an Italian pasta-making family, and a 70-year-old survivor of the Armenian Genocide converge in this story o...
Bone Music - A Collaboration with 99% Invisible
In the 1950s, some ingenious Russians, hungry for jazz, boogie woogie, rock n roll, and other music forbidden in the Soviet Union, devised a way to re...
Aggie & Walter Murch — Family, Farming & Filmmaking
Muriel "Aggie" Murch and her husband, Academy Award winning film editor and sound designer Walter Murch, have lived on Blackberry Farm in Bolinas for...
The Real Ambassadors — A Jazz Opera for Louis Armstrong by Dave & Iola Brubeck
The Real Ambassadors is a poignant tale of cultural exchange, anti-racism, and jazz history. And it's a love story — between life-long husband and wif...
The Women's School of Planning and Architecture: Not Only Survive but Flourish
The Women’s School of Planning and Architecture, popularly known as WSPA, ran for four summers from 1974 to 1979.
You could learn woodworkin...
Kibbe at the Crossroads - Lebanese Immigrants and Cooking in the Mississippi Delta
We travel to the Mississippi Delta and the world of Lebanese immigrants, where barbecue and the blues meet kibbe, a kind of traditional Lebanese raw m...
The Honesty Boxes of Scotland
“Some people might think that honesty boxes are from the past, from a different age, a simpler age, a more honest age, but I would say they're a futur...
Hidden Kitchens Texas — Hosted by Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson and Dallas-born actress Robin Wright, along with some wild and extraordinary tellers, take us across Texas and share some of their Hidde...
America Eats - 1930s WPA Chronicle of Food, Ritual and Celebration at The Library of Congress
Fish Fries, political BBQs, family reunions — during the 1930s writers were paid by the government to chronicle local food, eating customs and recipes...
The National Archives – The What and the Why
“From the very beginning the intent was that the American people needed to be able to access the records so that we would be able to hold the governme...
E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial - The Worst Video Game Ever?
Deep within the National Museum of American History’s vaults is a battered Atari case containing what’s known as “the worst video game of all time.” T...
Radio Pacific - A New Show From KALW San Francisco
The Kitchen Sisters are excited to share the first episode of Radio Pacific, a new monthly show from KALW in San Francisco that takes a deep and creat...
Plessy AND Ferguson—Activism and the Fight for Justice and Equal Rights
In 1892, Homer Plessy, a mixed race shoemaker in New Orleans, was arrested, convicted and fined $25 for taking a seat in a whites-only train car. This...
Pie Down Here: Listening Back—Alabama Sharecroppers and Communist Organizers, 1930s
Pie Down Here — Produced by Signal Hill
In the 1980s, when Robin D.G. Kelley was 24 years old, he took a bus trip to the Deep South. He was rese...
A Tribute to George Foreman: An Unexpected Kitchen—The George Foreman Grill
In 2004, we opened up a phone line on NPR asking people to tell us about their Hidden Kitchens— secret, underground, below the radar cooking, and how...
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston - Revisiting Manzanar
In 1981 The Kitchen Sisters interviewed Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston for a story about life on the homefront during World War II. Jeanne told stories of h...
The Tom Luddy Connection: The Man, The Movies, The Rolodex
Tom Luddy was a quiet titan of cinema. He presided over the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley for some 10 years, co-founded and directed The Telluride...
House/Full of Black Women
For almost a dozen years, 34 Black women gathered monthly around a big dining room table in an orange house on Orange Street in Oakland, CA — meeting,...
Spotlight on Black Pet Care Entrepreneurs
Lured in by a blackboard sign on the street in Davia’s neighborhood announcing “Spotlight on Black Entrepreneurs,” we enter the creative and growing w...
The Anti-Inaugural Concert: Leonard Bernstein, Richard Nixon and the "Plea for Peace" music of 1973 Inauguration
Lady Gaga, Marion Anderson, Beyoncé, Frank Sinatra, Pete Seeger, Maya Angelou — musicians and poets have been powerful headliners at inauguration cere...
Edna Lewis: Christmas in Freetown
Edna Lewis was a legendary American chef, a pioneer of Southern cooking and the author of four books, including The Taste of Country Cooking, her memo...
Cecilia Chiang Spills the Tea
On the occasion of her 80th birthday in 2000, The Kitchen Sisters, along with food writer Peggy Knickerbocker, visited the home of Cecilia Chiang, the...
Catherine Bauer Wurster, Housing Advocate: A Thoroughly Modern Woman
A pioneer in her field, Catherine Bauer Wurster was advisor to five presidents on urban planning and housing and was one of the primary authors of the...
Beyond Architecture: The Fantasy Worlds of Phyllis Birkby
Pushed to the side and rarely credited for her architectural work at Davis Brody, Phyllis Birkby became a significant figure in extending the lesbian...
Constellation Prize: Nightwalking
It is Tuesday, November 5, 2024, the day when millions of Americans go to the polls to vote for who will lead their towns, their states, the nation. S...
The Hope and the Scope: Young People and the Political Moment
July 17, 2024, Washington, D.C. Some 200 young people from across the nation aged 14-19 — aspiring poets, storytellers, MC's, activists — are gathered...
Tupperware
Today, The Kitchen Sisters Present: “Tupperware” — an homage and a eulogy.
It was 1980. Nikki and I had just met. We had just named ourselves Th...
Manny's: A Civic Gathering Place
As elections loom, we need to get involved, step up to the civic plate, take part in discourse. And that’s what Manny Yekutiel has been driven to do s...
Oprah, Kamala, and The New Orleans Four
There was a moment at the 2024 Democratic National Convention when Oprah took the stage — and the crowd went wild. She spoke boldly about Kamala Harri...
Burning Man: Archiving the Ephemeral
On the night of Summer Solstice 1986, Larry Harvey and Jerry James built and burned an eight-foot wooden figure on San Francisco's Baker Beach surroun...
Henri Langlois and the Cinémathèque Française
In honor of the Paris Olympics and the astounding contribution of the French to culture and art of the world, The Kitchen Sisters Present, Archive Fev...
Linda Ronstadt Day
San Francisco officially declared July 15th Linda Ronstadt Day. In her honor, The Kitchen Sisters Present this story about her book, Feels Like Home,...
Traveling Route 66 — The Mother Road
Route 66—The Main Street of America— the first continuously paved highway linking east and west was the most traveled and well known road in the US fo...
Laying the Groundwork: Women in American Architecture, Spring 1977
In 1977, a cavernous, rarely used sculpture gallery in the Brooklyn Museum was filled with drafting tables, their tops tilted to display collages of t...
A Floating City Vision - Mirabeau Water Garden, New Orleans
As this year's hurricane season ramps up, we go to New Orleans for a kind of biblical reckoning. A story of science and prayer, with a cast of improba...
Dissident Kitchens
On February 16, 2024 Russian dissident Alexei Navalny died under unexplained circumstances in a penal colony in the Russian Arctic just weeks before t...
Eleanor Coppola: Notes on a Life
On April 12, 2024, Eleanor Coppola, artist, filmmaker, mother and wife of director Francis Ford Coppola, died at her home in the Napa Valley surrounde...
Cool Hair, Great Smile: Remembering Knox Phillips
Over the years, The Kitchen Sisters have zeroed in on Memphis, Tennessee in a big way. The inspiration for that and the inspiration for some of our fa...
The Romance and Sex Life of the Date
In 1898, the United States Department of Agriculture created a special department of men, called “Agriculture Explorers,” to travel the globe searchin...
Parsi New Year—First Day of Spring
Niloufer Ichaporia King lives in a house with three kitchens. She prowls through six farmer’s markets a week in search of unusual greens, roots, seeds...