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78 – The Galveston Hurricane of 1900: No Tongue Can Tell
The Great Galveston Hurricane arrived on a Saturday, September 8, 1900 — almost without warning. Galveston, the grand dame of Texas, a vibrant port c…
8 years, 7 months ago
New Orleans Visions – King’s Candy & Living with Water
Episode 81
Robert King Wilkerson (aka Robert Hillary King) was imprisoned at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana for 31 years. Twenty-nine of thos…
8 years, 8 months ago
Liberace and the Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band
Episode 76
In 1967 thirty men left Trinidad with 97 steel drums to represent their country at the World’s Fair in Montreal. None of them had ever been off their…
8 years, 8 months ago
75 – The Making Of a Karaoke Ice Cream Truck and More Stories
Stories of creativity and invention— the making of a jar of jam, the making of a fashionable 3-D printed covering for an artificial limb, the making …
8 years, 9 months ago
74 – What Is It About Men and Meat and Midnight and a Pit?
Barbecue, burgoo, mopping the mutton, the fellowship of stirring. Hidden Kitchens stories of conflict, competition and resolution in the backyards an…
8 years, 9 months ago
73 – Basque Sheepherders Ball
In the 1930s and 40s, hundreds of Basques were brought to the western United States to do the desolate work that no one else would do—herding sheep. …
8 years, 10 months ago
72 – Warriors vs Warriors
For the last five years The Golden State Warriors have been going inside San Quentin, the legendary maximum security California State prison, to take…
8 years, 10 months ago
71 – Hidden Kitchen Gaza: A Palestinian Culinary Journey
Author and journalist, Laila El-Haddad takes us into the hidden world of Gaza through the kitchen. Interweaving history, personal experiences and sto…
8 years, 11 months ago
70 – The Egg Wars
A hidden Gold Rush kitchen when food was scarce and men died for eggs… We travel out to the forbidding Farallon Islands, 27 miles outside San Francis…
8 years, 11 months ago
69 – 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 searchi…
9 years ago