by kitchensisters | May 23, 2019 | Podcast, The Keepers
Our New Podcast Collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Ask anyone who’s been to The Berlin Film Festival—The Berlinale they call it—what they remember most about it. Maybe it’s the scale—some 400 films across 14 theaters across 10 days. Maybe it’s the weather—the...
by kitchensisters | May 22, 2019 | Events & Appearances
The Bowling with Grace Amazing Auction opens with a one-of-kind, one-time-only special event! Dinner for 6 with NPR’s Sylvia Poggioli, award-winning Senior European Correspondent, at Chez Panisse on Friday, June 7th! Get ready for a night of great conversation,...
by kitchensisters | May 22, 2019 | Hidden Kitchens, The Keepers
Diana Kennedy’s archives are headed to the University of Texas at San Antonio! From the New York Times: “Ms. Kennedy started her career with “The Cuisines of Mexico” in 1972. The plurality of that title became the foundation of her work: reporting on the...
by kitchensisters | May 21, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. Historian, professor, founding director of the Southern Oral History Program and author of Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America, out TODAY from W.W. Norton.
by kitchensisters | May 16, 2019 | Podcast, The Keepers
On the latest episode of 99% Invisible, a story from San Francisco, and the controversial purging of books from library shelves—or weeding as it’s called in the biz—after the 1989 earthquake. This episode also includes our story The Pack Horse Librarians of Eastern...
by kitchensisters | May 15, 2019 | Hidden Kitchens, Podcast, The Keepers
On the latest episode of The Kitchen Sisters Present… we celebrate National Barbecue Month with stories of C.B. “Stubb” Stubblefield: legendary BBQ man, sauce master, keeper of community, keeper of the flame, archangel of BBQ.”>The Kitchen Sisters Present… we...
by kitchensisters | May 9, 2019 | The Keepers
“When we had nowhere to live, we would spend hours at the library, using what I thought to be the key to the world: library computers.” —Astrid Liden, a high school senior from Eden Prairie, MN, from her college application essay, recently published in the...
by kitchensisters | May 8, 2019 | The Keepers
“Without the library, I would have been lost.” -Jesmyn Ward
by kitchensisters | May 6, 2019 | The Keepers
This month we celebrate 100 years of Pete Seeger. In commemoration of this “singer, rebel, and voice of the people,” Smithsonian Folkways has just released the “definitive anthology” of his music. The collection also includes a 200-page book...
by kitchensisters | May 2, 2019 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Amazing Grace A staggering film brought to life from the archives. Aretha Franklin’s live recording of her gospel album, Amazing Grace, in 1972.
