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June
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Works
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"The Birth of Rice-A-Roni" -
Hidden Kitchens on NPR's Morning Edition, Thurs 7/31
A new
nationwide special for Black History Month
"Chicken
Pills: The Secret Life of Girls Around Jamaica" premiering
as part of our new
NPR series, March 2009 |
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Events
on our radar:
Live music
at the San Francisco Airport, every Friday this summer, curated by San Francisco
music impresario Marc
Capelle. Line up includes: Zoe Keating,
Boca Do Rio, and Lavay Smith & Her
Red Hot Skillet Lickers. Premieres Fri 6/27
Youth
Radio Music Production Showcase - 1701 Broadway, Oakland,
7:30 PM Friday 6/27 |
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Radio
we're listening to:
WNYC's Radio
Rookies, “Growing
Up in the System” produced by Shirley "Star" Diaz, "Group
Home" by Krystle Monclava, "Legal
Emancipation" by Jordan Teklay
Michael Tilson
Thomas' interview
with James Brown from the MTT Files
Hearing Voices "No
Place Like Home" with host Scott Carrier |
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Books we're reading:
Willie Nelson:
An Epic Life by Joe Nick Patoski
Mr.
Fooster Travelling on a Whim by Tom Corwin (Author) & Craig
Frazier (Illustrator)
Guerilla Gardening by
Richard Reynolds
Collateral
Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians by Chris Hedges & Laila Al-Arian
Joe Boyd's
article on the Fes
Festival of World Sacred Music in
the Guardian UK, Sat 6/28 |
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Music
on our turntable:
Cindy Cashdollar - "Slide
Show"
Nass el Ghiwane -
Ancient/modern Guembri/banjo music and more, from Morocco
Mohammed Abdou -
The Sinatra of Saudi Arabia (well, sort of)
Tartit -
Nomadic Tuareg women from Mali
Small Faces -
Itchycoo Park |
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Awards
we're polishing:
The NEH has
chosen our Lost & Found
Sound website as
one of the top humanities sites for educators in the country.
Hope you teachers can use it.
New York Festivals
Gold Award for Hidden
Kitchens Texas, (airs on KUT-Austin
on July 4 and on KQED-SF on Wed 7/23 & Sat 7/26) narrated
by Willie Nelson & Robin Wright Penn
Niloufer Ichaporia
King won a James Beard Award for her book, My
Bombay Kitchen (hear our Hidden Kitchens story about
her, "Sugar
in the Milk") |
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Sunday,
June 1: Third Coast Festival Listening Room with The
Kitchen Sisters
Café du Nord, San Francisco
THIRD COAST FESTIVAL LISTENING ROOM FEATURING
SPECIAL GUESTS The Kitchen Sisters and more. Come
out for an evening of great stories, beautiful sounds and intense
conversations about some of the best radio being produced around
the world. TCF directors Johanna Zorn and Julie Shapiro will
present work by the KS and talk with them about their incomparable
radio work. They'll also share some favorite stories from the
Third Coast Festival universe, including this year's audio challenge
- Radio Ephemera. Don't miss this evening of 100% pure audio
love, amongst fellow listeners, producers and radioheads!
When - Sunday, June 1 / doors at 7, listening
at 8 pm
Where - Cafe Du Nord / 2170 Market
St. / San Francisco
TIX - $12, available online
click here |
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Saturday,
June 7: “What is it about
Men & Meat & Midnight & a Pit?”
Big Apple BBQ Block Party in New York- A
benefit for Madison Square Park.
The Kitchen Sisters appear
in the tent from 2-3 PM. |
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Thursday,
June 19: New York
Festivals Broadcast Radio Awards. Tribeca
Rooftop, Manhattan. Hidden Kitchens Texas is nominated
for an award in the Culture & Arts category. |
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Thursday,
June 26 : Hidden Kitchens Story #31 - Garden
Allotments: A London Kitchen Vision airs on NPR's Morning Edition and is
available online and as a podcast at npr.org |
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Archives |
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May
2008 |
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Thursday,
May 29: Hidden Kitchens Story
#30 on NPR's Morning Edition.
The Sheepherders Ball: Hidden Basque Kitchens
HIdden Kitchens explores the world of Basque Sheepherders in the American West
and their outdoor, below-the-radar, Dutch OVen cooking traditions. |
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Gathering
Sound & Telling Stories in London |
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BBC
Canteen - Thursday, May 1, 2008
"Two
Americans who are scouring the world for so-called "hidden
kitchens" come
to the BBC World Service HQ to see our BBC canteen. Nikki Silva
and Davia Nelson from America National Public Radio tell us
why they think food is a uniting force. Listen
online > more
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Hattie
Ellis from the Guardian interviews The Kitchen Sisters -
Wednesday April 30, 2008 > read
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Cookbook
author, Fuschia
Dunlop stops by with her new book, Shark
Fins and Sichuan Pepper:A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in
China, and tells us about the Hidden Kitchens of London,
Jellied Eels and her London kitchen. » more |
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We
are happy to announce that Hidden
Kitchens Texas, our
One Hour Special with host Willie Nelson,
produced in collaboration
with KUT
90.5 Austin, has
been nominated for a national James
Beard Award for broadcast journalism excellence in the
coverage of food. Deemed “the Oscars of the food
world,” by
Time magazine, The James Beard Foundation Awards are the country’s
most coveted honor for chefs; food and beverage professionals;
broadcast media, journalists, and authors working on food;
and restaurant architects and designers.
The winners will be announced at a gala event during the weekend
of June 6-8 at Avery Fisher Hall in NYC. |
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ON
THE ROAD: The Kitchen
Sisters will be on the road conducting a Radio Workshop
in Dublin, Ireland, Hosted by the Association
of Irish Independent Radio Producers and
in London
Hosted by Alan Hall and Falling Tree Productions. To see
the full schedule of our Spring
Calendar of Events and Appearances click here.
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Broncos
and Boudin: A Prison Kitchen Story #29 - Thursday,
April 17, on NPR's Morning Edition
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Hidden
Kitchens Story #28
Sugar
in the Milk: A Parsi Kitchen Story
Niloufer Ichaporia King is known for her ritual celebrations of Parsi New Year
on the first day of spring, when she creates an elaborate ceremonial meal based
on the auspicious foods and traditions of her vanishing culture.
More stories, recipes and photos can be found here. |
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Hidden
Kitchens Story #27
Hercules
and Hemings: African American Cooks in the President's Kitchen
Hercules, a slave of George Washington, and James Hemings,
owned by Thomas Jefferson, began a long connection of presidents
and their African-American cooks.
More
photos,
recipes and stories from the slave gardens of Monticello, W.E.B.
DuBois' writings on African-American caterers in Philadelphia,
black chefs in the White House, and President Eisenhower's passion
for cooking. |
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Hidden
Kitchens Story #26
Kibbe
at the Crossroads:
Lebanese Cooking in the Mississippi
Delta
Tune in to your local public radio station or listen online.
More photos
and recipes from the Syrian Lebanese. American community click here. |
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BBC
4 Features
the work of The Kitchen Sisters
on Acoustic
Attic (Radio 4
FM) |
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Remembering
Edna Lewis
Interview by Davia Nelson / The Kitchen Sisters |
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Hidden
Kitchens Story #25
Weenie
Royale: Food and the Japanese Internment
To hear the piece, listen to oral history clips, see some wonderful
photographs, art and recipes click
here.
Even more art from the camps,
painting by Roger Shimomura and archival photos can be found here on
our site as well as letters from listeners. |
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RADIO 4 |
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BBC
RADIO 4 producer, Judith Kampfner, features
a sampling of recordings from our archives, including Lost & Found
Sound, The Sonic Memorial Project and more.
Listen
to the Acoustic
Attic >
"Their amazing collection, consisting of tapes
and stories from ordinary people, features extraordinary
eyewitness accounts of historical events and famous people
as well as enchanting obsolete sounds, including Thomas
Edison cracking jokes, Tennessee
Williams making a recording in a penny arcade and a report
on Abraham
Lincoln."
— BBC4
online |
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Letters
from BBC 4 listeners |
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We
received some wonderful letters from listeners since the BBC
Archive hour was broadcast.
It is always a pleasure to hear
from you - thanks for writing.
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Message:
I have just been re-introduced to your work by the recent
BBC Archive hour programme. Astonishing, moving and vital
are words that come to mind.
Thanks for reminding me why I have finally
got around to do the Broadcast degree Ive waited 20 years
to do.So reassured am I , I felt I must at least send you
some words of encouragement and thanks. If you ever need
a 40 something intern to help out, just say the word. Haha!
Very best of luck with it all ladies- you deserve nothing but
success.
Colin Robinson
Liverpool John Moores University
UK. |
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Message:
Hi - Heard about your 'Lost and Found sound' on BBC Radio
4 last night. How very touching, inspiring, and brilliant
this was/is. I wish you all the very best for your
presnt and future endeavours, and for a Fabulous Xmas and
New Year, all the way from Nottingham, England.
Ash Brookes |
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Message:
Dear Kitchen Sisters,
the programme about your projects, aired on BBC radio 4 last
night, was the most fascinating
I have heard for ages.
I can't wait to explore your website and follow your future
progress. I lived
in Soquel, Santa Cruz for a while in
the mid-70s, but somehow missed your broadcasts then.
Thank you for having such a great idea, and in advance for
all the pleasure I know I'm going to
get from listening to
your work.
Oh, and Merry Christmas!
Name: Mikey Price
Speechification.com
Archive Hour: Acoustic Attic
December 16th, 2007 by steve
I’m putting
this up quick because I reckon the five (five already!)
Speechification contributors
will be racing
to do so. Since the rest of them probably have better things
to do with their Saturday nights. I’m first! It’s
another Archive Hour (I love the Archive Hour).
This one
celebrates found and accidental and informal and amateur
recordings collected by
American independent media celebrities
the ‘Kitchen Sisters’,
Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson, for broadcast on their NPR
radio show Lost and Found Sound.
If Russell’s last selection was
Speechification crack, then this one must be Speechification
cocoa.
It’s full
of breathtaking recordings from sources you won’t believe:
9/11 voicemail messages,
a Buster Keaton sing-along, Tennessee
Williams mucking around with his friends, a man who actually
heard the Gettysburg Address…Moving and joyful stuff.
(MP3). And another thing:
why don’t
they just turn Saturday Live into a British Lost and Found
Sound?
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