by kitchensisters | May 9, 2017 | Hidden Kitchens, Podcast
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS A hidden Gold Rush kitchen when food was scarce and men died for eggs… We travel out to the forbidding Farallon Islands, 27 miles outside San Francisco’s Golden Gate, home to the largest seabird colony in the United...
by kitchensisters | Apr 26, 2017 | Events & Appearances, Hidden Kitchens, Podcast
Yesterday was a banner day at The Kitchen Sisters. In the morning, we learned that we won a Webby Award for our Radiotopia podcast The Kitchen Sisters Present. In the evening, we were honored with a James Beard Foundation Award (the Oscars of food) for our NPR...
by kitchensisters | Apr 25, 2017 | Hidden Kitchens, Podcast
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS In 1898, the United States Department of Agriculture created a special department of men, called “Agriculture Explorers,” to travel the globe searching for new food crops to bring back for farmers to grow in the U.S....
by kitchensisters | Apr 14, 2017 | Events & Appearances, Fugitive Waves, Hidden Kitchens, Podcast
Dear Friends, The last time we sent you Notes From The Kitchen Sisterhood we were urging you to vote. It’s a whole new ballgame now with arts, culture, climate, healthcare, immigrants all threatened and the mother of all bombs bursting in air. All around us...
by kitchensisters | Apr 10, 2017 | Fugitive Waves, Lost & Found Sound, Podcast
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS Cab drivers, children’s jump rope rhymes, folk songs, dialects, controversial TV ads, interviews with blacklisted artists and writers during the McCarthy Era — Tony Schwartz was one of the great sound recordists...
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...