by kitchensisters | Apr 12, 2016 | Fugitive Waves, Hidden Kitchens
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS Hidden Kitchens turns its focus on the president’s kitchen and some of the first cooks to feed the Founding Fathers — Hercules and James Hemings — the enslaved chefs of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson....
by kitchensisters | Apr 5, 2016 | Events & Appearances
Dear Friends, Over the years we have told you about many a Kitchen Sister story and project. Today we write with so much joy and pride we can barely stand it. Nikki’s daughter, Molly Prentiss, has written her first novel, TUESDAY NIGHTS IN 1980, from Scout Press /...
by kitchensisters | Mar 22, 2016 | Fugitive Waves
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS Carmen Miranda—Brazil’s Ambassador of Samba, the highest paid woman entertainer in the world in the 1940s. When she died, hundreds of thousands of Brazilians lined the streets of Rio to pay homage to her. Over 50 years...
by kitchensisters | Mar 21, 2016 | Hidden Kitchens
For Parsi New Year, a story from our Hidden Kitchens series on NPR’s Morning Edition. Sugar in the Milk: A Parsi Kitchen Story Niloufer Ichaporia King lives in a house with three kitchens. She prowls through at least six farmers markets a week in search of...
by kitchensisters | Mar 8, 2016 | Fugitive Waves, Hidden World of Girls
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS Travellers. The people of walking. Sometimes called the gypsies of Ireland. They speak of non-Travellers as “the settled people.” Mistrusted for the most part and not well-understood. Nomads, moving in caravans, living...