by kitchensisters | Aug 14, 2018 | Lost & Found Sound, Podcast, The Keepers
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS Fish mongers recorded on the streets of Harlem in the 1930s. An 8-year-old girl’s impromptu news cast made on a toy recorder in a San Diego store. Lyndon Johnson talking to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover a week after...
by kitchensisters | Jul 23, 2018 | Lost & Found Sound, Podcast
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS The story of the birth of the Grand Ole Opry on radio station WSM in Nashville, TN and the story of “Harmonica Wizard” DeFord Bailey, the Opry’s first African American performer. WSM’s most popular show, the Grand Ole...
by kitchensisters | Jul 9, 2018 | Podcast, The Keepers
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS The dramatic stories of three pioneering “Keepers” and environmental activists—Ken Sleight, Katie Lee, and Mark Dubois and the damming of wild rivers in the west. Ken Sleight is a long time river and pack guide and...
by kitchensisters | Jun 26, 2018 | Hidden Kitchens, Podcast
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS Russians preparing dinner for Americans in space? Sounds good to us. There’s been a lot of jabber these days about creating a “Space Force,” a sixth branch of the US military to dominate outer space. Over the years...
by kitchensisters | Jun 13, 2018 | Events & Appearances, The Keepers
Dear Friends, It was Friday, the day after Bowling with Grace. I was texting with Vinny Eng from Tartine Manufactory thanking them for the astounding cakes they contributed to the night and for the Tartine Bread and Portuguese wine as well. I was trying to describe...
by kitchensisters | Jun 12, 2018 | Hidden Kitchens, Podcast
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS The Agave Goddess with 200 breasts; jimadors stripping lethal thorny leaves off agaves; farmers battling cambio climatico (climate change); distillers contemplating mono-culture production and the environmental impact...
by kitchensisters | Jun 4, 2018 | Events & Appearances
Dear Friends, Two exciting additions to The Bowling with Grace Experience — Roman Mars is joining our roster of Celebrity Bowlers and today our Amazing Auction is live online! From now til next Wednesday, June 6, the bidding is open to...
by kitchensisters | May 22, 2018 | Podcast, The Keepers
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS In 1983 Prince hired LA sound technician, Susan Rogers, one of the few women in the industry, to move to Minneapolis and help upgrade his home recording studio as he began work on the album and the movie Purple Rain....
by kitchensisters | May 7, 2018 | Podcast, The Keepers
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS In the early 1970s, radio producer and author Studs Terkel wrote a book called Working. He went around the country with a reel-to-reel tape recorder interviewing people about their jobs. The book became a bestseller...
by kitchensisters | May 2, 2018 | Events & Appearances, The Keepers
Dear Friends, These Notes spring from a recording session we did last week in the basement studio of American Zoetrope where The Kitchen Sisters SF HQ is located. We were rehearsing the story we’re presenting on the Radiotopia Live 6-city East Coast tour that starts...
