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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 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 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 2 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, 2 months ago
Architecture, Family Style – Sarah Harkness & Jean Fletcher
Sarah “Sally” Pillsbury and Jean B. Fletcher were both architects who married architects. The two women and their husbands were founding members of T…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Pancake Years - For Lenny on Christmas Eve
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…
2 years, 4 months ago
Emily Dickinson's Hidden Kitchen—Black Cake
Deep in the hidden archives of Harvard’s Houghton Library are the butter stained recipes of Emily Dickinson. Who knew? Emily Dickinson was better kno…
2 years, 4 months ago
Lou Reed's Tai Chi
Episode 227
Lou Reed, musician, rock icon, poet, leader of the legendary Velvet Underground, was obsessed with tai chi — the practice, the community, the health …
2 years, 4 months ago