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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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 4 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, 4 months ago
Spotlight on Black Pet Care Entrepreneurs
Episode 255
Lured in by a blackboard sign on the street in Davia’s neighborhood announcing “Spotlight on Black Entrepreneurs,” we enter the creative and growing …
1 year, 5 months ago
The Anti-Inaugural Concert: Leonard Bernstein, Richard Nixon and the "Plea for Peace" music of 1973 Inauguration
Episode 254
Lady Gaga, Marion Anderson, Beyoncé, Frank Sinatra, Pete Seeger, Maya Angelou — musicians and poets have been powerful headliners at inauguration cer…
1 year, 5 months ago
A Breach Repairer's Song – The Power of Music in Social Movements
An introduction to the new podcast, A Breach Repairer's Song, produced by Nice Sound Company, hosted by Yara Allen and Rev. William Barber.
A Breach …
1 year, 5 months ago
Edna Lewis: Christmas in Freetown
Episode 253
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 mem…
1 year, 6 months ago
Cecilia Chiang Spills the Tea
Episode 252
On the occasion of her 80th birthday in 2000, The Kitchen Sisters, along with food writer Peggy Knickerbocker, visited the home of Cecilia Chiang, th…
1 year, 6 months ago
Catherine Bauer Wurster, Housing Advocate: A Thoroughly Modern Woman
Episode 251
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 th…
1 year, 7 months ago