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Laying the Groundwork: Women in American Architecture, Spring 1977
Episode 240
In 1977, a cavernous, rarely used sculpture gallery in the Brooklyn Museum was filled with drafting tables, their tops tilted to display collages of …
2 years ago
A Floating City Vision - Mirabeau Water Garden, New Orleans
Episode 239
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 improb…
2 years, 1 month ago
Dissident Kitchens
Episode 238
On February 16, 2024 Russian dissident Alexei Navalny died under unexplained circumstances in a penal colony in the Russian Arctic just weeks before …
2 years, 1 month ago
Eleanor Coppola: Notes on a Life
Episode 237
On April 12, 2024, Eleanor Coppola, artist, filmmaker, mother and wife of director Francis Ford Coppola, died at her home in the Napa Valley surround…
2 years, 2 months ago
Cool Hair, Great Smile: Remembering Knox Phillips
Episode 236
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 f…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Romance and Sex Life of the Date
Episode 235
In 1898, the United States Department of Agriculture created a special department of men, called “Agriculture Explorers,” to travel the globe searchi…
2 years, 3 months ago
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, seed…
2 years, 3 months ago
Buildings Speak: Stories of Pioneering Women Architects hosted by Frances McDormand
Little known stories of pioneering architects — Julia Morgan, the first accredited female architect in California, who designed Hearst Castle and wa…
2 years, 4 months ago
Black Chef, White House—African American Chefs in the President's Kitchen
A look at the President’s kitchen and some of the first cooks to feed the Founding Fathers—Hercules and James Hemings—the enslaved chefs of George Wa…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Mardi Gras Indians—Stories from New Orleans
Jelly Roll Morton talks of being a “Spy Boy” in the Mardi Gras Indian parades of his youth. Bo Dollis, of the Wild Magnolias, tells of sewing his sui…
2 years, 5 months ago