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America Eats - 1930s WPA Chronicle of Food, Ritual and Celebration at The Library of Congress
Episode 266
Fish Fries, political BBQs, family reunions — during the 1930s writers were paid by the government to chronicle local food, eating customs and recipe…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
The National Archives – The What and the Why
Episode 264
“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 governm…
10 months, 1 week ago
E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial - The Worst Video Game Ever?
Episode 263
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.” …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Radio Pacific - A New Show From KALW San Francisco
Episode 262
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 crea…
11 months, 1 week ago
Plessy AND Ferguson—Activism and the Fight for Justice and Equal Rights
Episode 261
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. Thi…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Pie Down Here: Listening Back—Alabama Sharecroppers and Communist Organizers,1930s
Episode 260
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 researchin…
1 year ago
A Tribute to George Foreman: An Unexpected Kitchen—The George Foreman Grill
Episode 259
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…
1 year ago
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston - Revisiting Manzanar
Episode 258
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 …
1 year, 1 month ago
The Tom Luddy Connection: The Man, The Movies, The Rolodex
Episode 257
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…
1 year, 2 months ago
House/Full of Black Women
Episode 256
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…
1 year, 2 months ago