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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...

The Kitchen Sisters Present Episode #66 – Sugar in the Milk: A Parsi Hidden Kitchen

by kitchensisters | Mar 13, 2017 | Fugitive Waves, Hidden Kitchens, Podcast

Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS Niloufer Ichaporia King lives in a house with three kitchens. She prowls through six farmer’s markets a week, at least, in search of unusual greens, roots and seeds, and traditional food plants from every...

Episode #65: Sam Phillips, Sun Records and the Acoustics of Life

by kitchensisters | Feb 28, 2017 | Fugitive Waves, Lost & Found Sound, Podcast

Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS Recording sound pioneer Sam Phillips — the father of Sun Records, the man who discovered Howlin’ Wolf, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash…, the creator of WHER, The First All Girl Radio Station in the World —...

The Kitchen Sisters Present Episode #64: Kimchi Diplomacy

by kitchensisters | Feb 13, 2017 | Fugitive Waves, Hidden Kitchens, Podcast

Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS Kimchi in space. The Kimchi Bus. Government-sponsored chefs and restaurants spreading the word of Kimchi around the globe. South Korea is one of the nations most involved in branding itself through its food, using food...

The Kitchen Sisters Present #63 – War and Food and Manga

by kitchensisters | Jan 24, 2017 | Fugitive Waves, Hidden Kitchens, Podcast

Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS Manga, the ubiquitous Japanese comic books written on just about every subject—sports, music, sex, shooting pool—represent about 40% of all books published in Japan. In recent decades ‘food manga’ has exploded. Stories...

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...
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