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...
by kitchensisters | Apr 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
This May, Alabama Chanin is featuring two of my personal heroines (and, now, dear friends) as part of our ongoing Chef Series at the café. They might not be chefs, but Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva are The Kitchen Sisters—independent producers who create radio stories...
by kitchensisters | Apr 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
For this week’s “This Is Radio” video from Andrew Norton, Transom brings you a portrait of The Kitchen Sisters in their natural habitat, surrounded by artifacts from their long history of story gathering: A video duet from Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva....
by kitchensisters | Apr 18, 2014 | Fugitive Waves, Uncategorized
The Kitchen Sisters take us to a little-known, hidden corner of London — to Eel Pie Island, a tiny slice of land in the middle of the Thames. Now a small bohemian community of artists, inventors, river gypsies and boat builders, on the edge of Twickenham, Eel Pie...
by kitchensisters | Apr 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
This week, Deborah Amos, NPR’s Peabody Award winning foreign correspondent, is talking to our “Telling Stories on Air” class at the UCB Graduate School of Journalism. Deb is a master at drawing us into complex, usually faceless, international issues...
