by kitchensisters | May 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
[audio: https://kitchensisters.org/audio/Hidden_Kitchens_Dissident%20Kitchens_MIX_032714.mp3] When Nikita Khrushchev emerged as the leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin’s death in 1953, one of the first things he addressed was the housing shortage and the need for...
by kitchensisters | May 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
Gia Coppola is 26 years old. She is the granddaughter of Francis and Eleanor Coppola, and the niece of Roman and Sofia Coppola. When her mother Jacqui was 2 months pregnant with her, Gia’s father, Gian-Carlo, Francis and Ellie’s oldest son, was killed in an accident....
by kitchensisters | May 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
“I left Vietnam in 1972. I listen the radio when I was in high school. I still in Vietnam at that time. I left with US troops during the Vietnam War. I really love the song, you know, played by Glen Campbell, “Wichita Lineman.” And all the song from...
by kitchensisters | May 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
Hidden Kitchens Story #2: Turnspit Dogs—The Rise & Fall of the Vernepator Cur [audio: https://kitchensisters.org/audio/HKW_Turnspit%20Dogs_MIX_030414%201.mp3] In an old hunting lodge on the grounds of an ancient Norman castle in Wales, a small extinct dog peers...
by kitchensisters | May 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
In recent years, the effort to bring the Mafia under control in Sicily has spilled over into the world of food. Today a movement of small organic agricultural cooperatives has sprung up across the island to farm land once confiscated by the Mafia and bring these goods...
