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Library of Congress Acquires Kitchen Sisters’ Audio Archive

Library of Congress Acquires Kitchen Sisters’ Audio Archive

by kitchensisters | Jan 11, 2022 | Hidden Kitchens, Hidden World of Girls, Lost & Found Sound, Podcast, The Keepers, The Making Of, The Sonic Memorial Project

Dear Friends,Here’s the beautiful news we want to share with you. The Library of Congress has acquired the entire archive of The Kitchen Sisters — some 7,000 hours of interviews, oral histories and field recordings along with photographs, notebooks, and journals — and...

Our Sonic Signatures

by kitchensisters | Sep 6, 2018 | Hidden Kitchens, Hidden World of Girls, Lost & Found Sound, The Keepers, The Making Of

With each series we do we have theme music, a sonic signature, that ushers in the stories on NPR and our podcast, The Kitchen Sisters Present… For our Peabody Award-winning series, Lost & Found Sound — we created a mix of a Tony Schwartz recording, Music in Marble...

Ep #83: Chicken Pills – A Hidden World of Jamaican Girls

by kitchensisters | Nov 27, 2017 | Hidden World of Girls, Podcast

Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS Every culture has its idealized woman, its standard of beauty that is valorized. Everywhere women are altering themselves in small and major ways to attempt the look that is celebrated. History is full of methods, home...

The Kitchen Sisters Present: The Hidden World of Girls with Tina Fey

by kitchensisters | Mar 27, 2017 | Hidden World of Girls, Podcast

Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS Stories from The Hidden World of Girls with host Tina Fey: Nigerian writer Chris Abani tells about his English-born mother enlisting him at age 8 to be her translator in Nigeria as she travels door to door through the...

Episode #62 – Black Cake: Emily Dickinson's Hidden Kitchen

by kitchensisters | Jan 10, 2017 | Hidden Kitchens, Hidden World of Girls, Podcast

Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS Black cake, gingerbread, slant rhyme, secret loves, family scandals, poems composed on the back of a coconut cake recipe —we journey into the steamy, myth-laden, hidden world of poet Emily Dickinson through her...

Black Cake: Emily Dickinson's Hidden Kitchen on NPR's Morning Edition

by kitchensisters | Dec 27, 2016 | Hidden Kitchens, Hidden World of Girls

A journey into the hidden world of Emily Dickinson — through her kitchen. Special thanks to: Emilie Hardman, Emily Walhout and Heather Cole from the Houghton Library, Harvard University; Brenda Hillman, poet and Professor of Creative Writing at St. Mary’s...
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