Podcast Episodes

62 - Black Cake: Emily Dickinson’s Hidden Kitchen

Black cake, gingerbread, slant rhyme, secret loves, family scandals, poems composed on the back of a coconut cake recipe —we journey into the steamy,…

9 years, 5 months ago

61 – Rattlesden

For five years Davia’s father, Lenny Nelson, asked her to go to Rattlesden, England, to visit the Air Force base where he was stationed during WWII a…

9 years, 6 months ago

60 – Milk Cow Blues: The Apple Family Farm and the Indiana Cow Share Association

A journey into the mysterious and controversial world of raw milk.

Tucked away in the vanishing farm land on the outskirts of Indianapolis, the Apple…

9 years, 6 months ago

59 – Weenie Royale: The Impact of the Internment on Japanese American Cooking

During World War II, In desolate inland internment camps in the US,  like Manzanar, Topaz, and Tule Lake, some 120,000 Japanese and Japanese American…

9 years, 7 months ago

58 – The Kiosk Strategy, Lisbon — Hidden Kitchens: War & Peace & Food

A story from the plazas of Portugal, where small ornate kiosks that served traditional snacks and drinks once graced the city and brought people toge…

9 years, 7 months ago

57 – War and Peace and Coffee

“Nobody can soldier without coffee,” a Union calvary man wrote in 1865. Hidden Kitchens looks at three American wars through the lens of coffee: the …

9 years, 8 months ago

56 – Operation Hummus and More Stories of War and Peace and Food from Israel and Ramallah

Nothing is simple in Mideast relations. Not even hummus. Lebanon, Israel and Palestinians are entangled over who owns the dish. Not even the title of…

9 years, 8 months ago

55 – Between Us, Bread and Salt: Lebanon Hidden Kitchens with Kamal Mouzawak

A road trip through the hidden kitchens of Lebanon, with kitchen activist, Kamal Mouzawak, a man with a vision of re-building and uniting this war-ra…

9 years, 9 months ago

54 — Walking High Steel: Mohawk Ironworkers at the World Trade Towers

Six generations of Mohawk Indian ironworkers, known for their ability to work high steel, have helped shape New York City’s skyline. Hundreds of Moha…

9 years, 9 months ago

53 — Garden Allotments—London’s Kitchen Vision

A Hidden Kitchens story about London’s long tradition of urban garden allotments — and the story of Manor Garden Allotments, a 100 year old community…

9 years, 10 months ago