The Kitchen Sisters Present

By The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia

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Dee Courtney
 Nov 16, 2020
Beautiful stories and found sound from around the US and the world. You never know what to expect from the Kitchen Sisters.


 Feb 4, 2020


 Nov 16, 2019

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The Kitchen Sisters Present… Stories from the b-side of history. Lost recordings, hidden worlds, people possessed by a sound, a vision, a mission. Deeply layered stories, lush with interviews, field recordings and music. From powerhouse NPR producers The Kitchen Sisters (The Keepers, Hidden Kitchens, The Hidden World of Girls, The Sonic Memorial Project, Lost & Found Sound, and Fugitive Waves). "The Kitchen Sisters have done some of best radio stories ever broadcast" —Ira Glass. The Kitchen Sisters Present is produced in by The Kitchen Sisters (Nikki Silva & Davia Nelson) in collaboration with Nathan Dalton and Brandi Howell and mixed by Jim McKee. A proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Learn more at radiotopia.fm.


Episode Date
Cecilia Chiang Spills the Tea
Dec 17, 2024
Catherine Bauer Wurster, Housing Advocate: A Thoroughly Modern Woman
Dec 03, 2024
Beyond Architecture: The Fantasy Worlds of Phyllis Birkby
Nov 19, 2024
Constellation Prize: Nightwalking
Nov 05, 2024
The Hope and the Scope: Young People and the Political Moment
Oct 15, 2024
Tupperware
Oct 01, 2024
Manny's: A Civic Gathering Place
Sep 17, 2024
Oprah, Kamala, and The New Orleans Four
Sep 03, 2024
Burning Man: Archiving the Ephemeral
Aug 20, 2024
Henri Langlois and the Cinémathèque Française
Aug 06, 2024
Linda Ronstadt Day
Jul 15, 2024
Traveling Route 66 — The Mother Road
Jul 02, 2024
Laying the Groundwork: Women in American Architecture, Spring 1977
Jun 18, 2024
A Floating City Vision - Mirabeau Water Garden, New Orleans
Jun 04, 2024
Dissident Kitchens
May 21, 2024
Eleanor Coppola: Notes on a Life
May 07, 2024
Cool Hair, Great Smile: Remembering Knox Phillips
Apr 16, 2024
The Romance and Sex Life of the Date
Apr 02, 2024
Parsi New Year—First Day of Spring
Mar 19, 2024
Buildings Speak: Stories of Pioneering Women Architects hosted by Frances McDormand
Mar 05, 2024
Black Chef, White House—African American Chefs in the President's Kitchen
Feb 20, 2024
The Mardi Gras Indians—Stories from New Orleans
Feb 06, 2024
230 - Architecture, Family Style – Sarah Harkness & Jean Fletcher
Jan 16, 2024
229 - The Pancake Years - For Lenny on Christmas Eve
Dec 24, 2023
Emily Dickinson's Hidden Kitchen—Black Cake
Dec 19, 2023
Lou Reed's Tai Chi
Dec 05, 2023
226 - Kimchi Diplomacy—Hidden Kitchens: War & Peace and Food
Nov 21, 2023
Architect Anna Wagner Keichline: The Legacy of Invention
Nov 07, 2023
224 - Make Coffee Black Again
Oct 17, 2023
223 - Losing Lincoln
Oct 03, 2023
222 - Filmmaker Wim Wenders—The Entire Caboddle
Sep 19, 2023
221 - Lena Richard - America's Unknown Celebrity Chef
Sep 05, 2023
220 - Archiving the Underground — Hip Hop at Harvard & Cornell
Aug 15, 2023
219 - Edith Warner's Atomic Tea Room
Aug 01, 2023
218 - Remembering "The Day After Trinity - J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb"
Jul 18, 2023
217 - International Congress of Youth Voices—Youth on Fire
Jul 04, 2023
216 - Amaza Lee Meredith, African American Architect: Love & Home
Jun 20, 2023
215—Prince and the Technician
Jun 06, 2023
214 - The Passion of Chris Strachwitz 1931-2023 —Arhoolie Records
May 16, 2023
213 - Ada Louise Huxtable, Architecture Critic: The Art We Must Live With
May 02, 2023
212 - Tony Schwartz Centennial- 30,000 Recordings Later
Apr 18, 2023
211 - House/Full of Black Women
Mar 28, 2023
210-Ray Eames—Industrial Designer & Artist: Beauty in the Everyday
Mar 21, 2023
209 - Black Reconstruction in America - W.E.B. Du Bois' 1935 Groundbreaking / Myth-Busting Book
Mar 07, 2023
208 - Never a Man Spake Like This Man: The Black Preacher As Performing Artist
Feb 21, 2023
207 - The Golden Arches in Black America
Feb 07, 2023
206 - Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll - The Stock Market Wizard of San Quentin is Released!
Jan 17, 2023
205-Silent Echoes: Sound Artist Bill Fontana —The Bells of Notre Dame
Jan 03, 2023
204 - Library of Congress Acquires Kitchen Sisters' Audio Collection - KQED Forum Interview
Dec 20, 2022
203 - A San Quentin Wedding
Dec 06, 2022
202 — Harvesting Wild Rice—White Earth Ojibwe Land Recovery Project
Nov 15, 2022
201- From Nashville to Nairobi: A History of Country Western Music in Kenya
Nov 01, 2022
200 - Manny’s: A Civic Gathering Place
Oct 18, 2022
Linda Ronstadt: Feels Like Home - A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands
Oct 04, 2022
198 - The Real Ambassadors: Dave Brubeck, Iola Brubeck, and Louis Armstrong
Sep 20, 2022
197 - What Fire Reveals: Stories from the Amah Mutsun, Big Basin and the Lightning Fires in the Santa Cruz Mountains
Sep 06, 2022
196 - Afghan Women Refugees in America (Rebroadcast)
Aug 16, 2022
195 - Sheikh Imam: Egypt's Voice of Dissent
Aug 02, 2022
194 - From Pinoy to Punk — The Rise of the Mabuhay Gardens
Jul 19, 2022
193 - Afghan Women Refugees in America
Jul 05, 2022
192 - Monterey Pop Festival Revisited
Jun 21, 2022
The Egg Wars and the Farallon Islands
Jun 07, 2022
190 - Florence Knoll: Total Design
May 17, 2022
189 - Hillary and Huma
May 03, 2022
188 - Fast Food and Radical Rooflines: Helen Fong Shapes Los Angeles Coffee Shops
Apr 19, 2022
187 - Norma Sklarek: An Extremely Bold Hand
Apr 05, 2022
186 - Coal + Ice: Visualizing the Climate Crisis
Mar 15, 2022
185 - Natalie de Blois — To Tell the Truth
Mar 01, 2022
184 - The Road Ranger—My Business Is Trouble
Feb 22, 2022
183 - That Cheap, Delicious, Rotisserie Chicken
Feb 15, 2022
182 - "The porters were fed up." C.L. Dellums and the rise of America's first Black union
Feb 01, 2022
181 - The Accidental Archivist—Keeping the Wooster Group
Jan 18, 2022
180 - The Great Amish Pandemic Sewing Frolic
Jan 04, 2022
179 - The Nights of Edith Piaf
Dec 21, 2021
178- Hidden Kitchens - With Host Frances McDormand
Dec 07, 2021
177 - The Pardoning of Homer Plessy
Nov 16, 2021
176-Arctic Ice, Extreme Weather—Activist Photographer Camille Seaman
Nov 02, 2021
175 - Finding Julia Morgan
Oct 19, 2021
174 - The Braveheart Grandmothers and Yankton Sioux Coming of Age Ceremony
Oct 05, 2021
173 - Betty Reid Soskin, Celebrating the 100th Birthday of the Oldest Park Ranger in America
Sep 21, 2021
172 - The Sonic Memorial—The 20th Anniversary of 9/11m], Narrated by Paul Auster
Sep 07, 2021
171—What Fire Reveals: Stories from the CZU August Lightning Fires in The Santa Cruz Mountains
Aug 16, 2021
170—Route 66—The Mother Road
Jul 27, 2021
169—Cry Me A River
Jul 13, 2021
169-Gert McMullin—Sewing on the Frontline—From the AIDS Quilt to COVID-19 PPE
Jun 22, 2021
168-Soul to Soul at 50 — A Homecoming Festival in Ghana for African American Artists, 1971
Jun 08, 2021
166—Danni Washington and The Genius Generation
May 25, 2021
166-Dave Brubeck & The Ambassadors of Jazz
May 11, 2021
165—Spotlight on Black-Owned Pet Business Entrepreneurs
Apr 27, 2021
164 - Francis Coppola and North Beach Citizens—A Neighborhood Vision
Apr 13, 2021
163—Tales from Vietnamese Nail Shops in America
Mar 23, 2021
162—The Osaka Ramones: The All-Girl Punk Band - Shonen Knife
Mar 09, 2021
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Feb 24, 2021
160—Can Do: Black Visionaries, Seekers, and Entrepreneurs-with Host Alfre Woodard
Feb 23, 2021
159 — Nomadland with Frances McDormand
Feb 09, 2021
158 — A Plea for Peace: Leonard Bernstein, Richard Nixon, and the Music of the 1973 Inauguration
Jan 26, 2021
157 — Chido Govera—The Mushroom Queen of Zimbabwe
Jan 12, 2021
156 — The Amish Pandemic Sewing Frolic
Dec 22, 2020
155 - Frances McDormand in Nomadland
Dec 08, 2020
154 — Hunting & Gathering with Angelo Garro
Nov 24, 2020
153 — The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Corporal Michael A. Baronowski
Nov 10, 2020
152 — Winona LaDuke—First Born Daughter
Oct 27, 2020
151 - Pearl Jam: It's a Rock Band, Not The Smithsonian
Oct 13, 2020
150 — Floating City - The Mirabeau Water Garden, New Orleans
Sep 22, 2020
149 - The Sonic Memorial—Remembering 9/11 with host Paul Auster
Sep 08, 2020
148 - Youth on Fire—The International Congress of Youth Voices
Aug 25, 2020
147 - Kamal Mouzawak—A Lebanese Kitchen Vision
Aug 11, 2020
146 — French Manicure—Tales from Vietnamese Shops in America
Jul 28, 2020
145 - Louis Jones, Field Archivist, Detroit
Jul 14, 2020
144 - 95,000 Names—Gert McMullin, Sewing the Frontline
Jun 19, 2020
143 - The McDonogh Three—First Day of School
Jun 09, 2020
142—From King Henry the VIII to the Rolling Stones on Eel Pie Island
May 26, 2020
141—Pati Jinich's Mexican Jewish Table
May 12, 2020
140 -The Climate Underground with Al Gore and Alice Waters
Apr 17, 2020
139 - Waiting for Joe DiMaggio
Apr 14, 2020
138 - The Keepers - Archive Fever, with host Frances McDormand
Mar 24, 2020
137- The Keepers - Archiving the Underground, with Host Frances McDormand
Mar 10, 2020
136 - The Lou Reed Archive with Laurie Anderson
Feb 25, 2020
135 - Deep Fried Fuel - A Biodiesel Kitchen Vision - Celebrating Over the Road
Feb 11, 2020
133 - WHER - 1000 Beautiful Watts, The First All-Girl Radio Station in the Nation
Jan 28, 2020
133 - Theaster Gates — Keeping the South Side
Jan 14, 2020
132 - The Pancake Years
Dec 24, 2019
131 - Night of the Living Intern: First Stories from Kitchen Sisters Interns
Dec 10, 2019
130 - Lipstick Traces — Dreaming in Public
Dec 05, 2019
129 - Martin Scorsese — Try Anything
Nov 26, 2019
128 - First Day of School—1960, New Orleans
Nov 12, 2019
127 - Robert Krulwich—Talking Story, The First Third Coast
Oct 22, 2019
126 - Lawrence Weschler—Archivist of the Odd, the Marvelous, the Passionate and Slightly Askew
Oct 08, 2019
125 - The Passion of Chris Strachwitz—Arhoolie Records
Sep 24, 2019
124 - The Brothers Burns — A Conversation with Filmmakers Ken & Ric Burns
Sep 10, 2019
123- San Francisco—Stories from the Model City, Part Three
Aug 27, 2019
122 - Burning Man — Archiving the Ephemeral
Aug 21, 2019
121 - San Francisco—Stories from the Model City, Part Two
Aug 13, 2019
120 - San Francisco—Stories from the Model City, Part One
Jul 23, 2019
119 - Nancy Pearl—Librarian Action Figure
Jul 08, 2019
118 - The Nation's 10th Keeper—David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States
Jun 25, 2019
117 - Dieter Kosslick’s Last Red Carpet Ride
Jun 11, 2019
The Bob Dylan Archive - A Curveball Comes To Tulsa
May 28, 2019
115 - You Too Can Barbecue - Stubb's Blues Cookbook Cassette & More
May 13, 2019
114 - Chamelecon—Below the Border in Honduras with Scott Carrier
Apr 22, 2019
113 - Filmmaker Agnés Varda — A Conversation
Apr 08, 2019
112 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Celebrating 100 years
Mar 26, 2019
111 - Palaces for the People—Author Eric Klinenberg from The Librarian Is In
Mar 11, 2019
110 - Filmmaker Wim Wenders - The Entire Caboodle
Feb 21, 2019
109 - Linda Spalding - A Reckoning
Feb 11, 2019
108 - The Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System
Jan 22, 2019
107 - William Ferris—Keeper of Southern Folklife
Jan 08, 2019
106 - 21 Collections—Every Object has a Story
Dec 11, 2018
Bonus Episode - The Free-Range Archivist: Jason Scott
Dec 04, 2018
105 - The Keepers: The Unrelenting Oral Histories of Eddie McCoy
Nov 27, 2018
104 - The Keepers: Emily Dickinson's Hidden Kitchen
Nov 13, 2018
103 - The Keepers: The Lenny Bruce Collection
Oct 23, 2018
102 - Archive Fever: Henri Langlois and the Cinémathèque Française
Oct 09, 2018
The Pack Horse Librarians of Eastern Kentucky
Sep 24, 2018
100 - The Keepers: Archiving the Underground—The Hip Hop Archive
Sep 05, 2018
99 - Lovers of Lost Fans
Aug 28, 2018
98 - Lost & Found Sound and Voices of The Dust Bowl
Aug 14, 2018
97 - Pan American Blues: The Birth of The Grand Ole Opry & "Harmonica Wizard" Deford Bailey
Jul 23, 2018
96 - Cry Me a River — Keepers of the Environment
Jul 09, 2018
95 - Give Space A Chance: Gastrodiplomacy in Orbit
Jun 25, 2018
94 - Tequila Chamber of Commerce & The Birth of the Frozen Margarita
Jun 12, 2018
93 - Prince and the Technician
May 22, 2018
92 - The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel
May 07, 2018
91 - Mimi Chakarova: Love, Art and Anger
Apr 23, 2018
90 - Jorge Amado: The Ballad of Bahia
Apr 09, 2018
89 - Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti — Celebrating 99 Years
Mar 27, 2018
88 - Frances McDormand Hosts Hidden Kitchens
Mar 12, 2018
87—Guillermo Cabrera Infante: Memories of an Invented City
Feb 27, 2018
86 - The Mardi Gras Indians—Stories from New Orleans
Feb 13, 2018
House of Night - The Lost Creation Songs of the Mojave People
Jan 19, 2018
84 - Levee Stream Live from New Orleans
Dec 12, 2017
83 - Chicken Pills - A Hidden World of Girls Story from Jamaica
Nov 27, 2017
82 - First Day of School—1960, New Orleans
Nov 09, 2017
81 - Sonic Prayer Flags - New Orleans
Oct 24, 2017
80 – Thad Vogler: A Short History of Spirits
Oct 10, 2017
79 – Pati’s Mexican Jewish Table
Sep 25, 2017
78 – The Galveston Hurricane of 1900: No Tongue Can Tell
Sep 11, 2017
New Orleans Visions – King’s Candy & Living with Water
Aug 22, 2017
Liberace and the Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band
Aug 08, 2017
75 – The Making Of a Karaoke Ice Cream Truck and More Stories
Jul 25, 2017
74 – What Is It About Men and Meat and Midnight and a Pit?
Jul 11, 2017
73 – Basque Sheepherders Ball
Jun 27, 2017
72 – Warriors vs Warriors
Jun 12, 2017
71 – Hidden Kitchen Gaza: A Palestinian Culinary Journey
May 23, 2017
70 – The Egg Wars
May 09, 2017
69 – The Romance and Sex Life of the Date
Apr 25, 2017
68 – Tony Schwartz: 30,000 Recordings Later
Apr 10, 2017
67 – The Hidden World of Girls with Tina Fey
Mar 27, 2017
66 – Sugar in the Milk: A Parsi Hidden Kitchen
Mar 13, 2017
65 – Sam Phillips, Sun Records, and the Acoustics of Life
Feb 28, 2017
64 – Kimchi Diplomacy: Hidden Kitchens – War and Peace and Food
Feb 13, 2017
63 – War and Food and Manga
Jan 24, 2017
62 - Black Cake: Emily Dickinson’s Hidden Kitchen
Jan 10, 2017
61 – Rattlesden
Dec 27, 2016
60 – Milk Cow Blues: The Apple Family Farm and the Indiana Cow Share Association
Dec 13, 2016
59 – Weenie Royale: The Impact of the Internment on Japanese American Cooking
Nov 22, 2016
58 – The Kiosk Strategy, Lisbon — Hidden Kitchens: War & Peace & Food
Nov 08, 2016
57 – War and Peace and Coffee
Oct 25, 2016
56 – Operation Hummus and More Stories of War and Peace and Food from Israel and Ramallah
Oct 11, 2016
55 – Between Us, Bread and Salt: Lebanon Hidden Kitchens with Kamal Mouzawak
Sep 26, 2016
54 — Walking High Steel: Mohawk Ironworkers at the World Trade Towers
Sep 12, 2016
53 — Garden Allotments—London’s Kitchen Vision
Aug 23, 2016
Hunting & Gathering with Angelo Garro
Aug 09, 2016
Harvest on Big Rice Lake
Jul 26, 2016
50 – An Unexpected Kitchen: The George Foreman Grill
Jul 12, 2016
49 – The Cabyard Kitchen
Jun 28, 2016
48 – Kibbe at the Crossroads: Lebanese Cooking in the Mississippi Delta
Jun 14, 2016
47 – The Chili Queens of San Antonio
May 24, 2016
46 – Stubb Stubblefield: The Archangel of BBQ
May 10, 2016
45 – Hidden Kitchen Mama
Apr 26, 2016
44 – Black Chef, White House: African American Cooks in the President’s Kitchen
Apr 12, 2016
43 – Carmen Miranda: The Life and Fate of the Brazilian Bombshell
Mar 22, 2016
42 – Hidden World of Traveller Girls
Mar 08, 2016
41 – A Secret Civil Rights Kitchen: Georgia Gilmore and the Club from Nowhere
Feb 23, 2016
40 – New Orleans—Cowboys, Indians, Broncos & Boudin
Feb 09, 2016
39 – One Big Self: The Hidden World of Deborah Luster & C. D. Wright
Jan 26, 2016
Walkin’ Talkin’ Bill Hawkins
Jan 12, 2016
37 – Bone Music: A Collaboration with 99% Invisible
Dec 22, 2015
36 – Tupperware
Dec 08, 2015
35 – Way To Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake
Nov 24, 2015
34 – The Vietnam Tapes of Michael A. Baronowski
Nov 09, 2015
33 – WHER: 1000 Beautiful Watts—The First All Girl Radio Station in the Nation—Part 2
Oct 27, 2015
32 – WHER: 1000 Beautiful Watts—The First All Girl Radio Station in the Nation—Part 1
Oct 13, 2015
31 – Waiting for Joe DiMaggio
Sep 22, 2015
30 – The Building Stewardesses: Construction Guides at the World Trade Center
Sep 07, 2015
29 – King’s Candy: A New Orleans Prison Kitchen Vision
Aug 25, 2015
28 – Wall Street: San Quentin’s Stock Market Wizard
Aug 19, 2015
27 – Braveheart Women’s Society: Coming of Age in South Dakota
Aug 11, 2015
26 – Horses, Unicorns & Dolphins
Jul 28, 2015
25 – Hidden Kitchens Texas with host Willie Nelson
Jul 13, 2015
24 – Route 66: The Mother Road, Part 2
Jun 23, 2015
23 – Route 66: The Mother Road, Part I
Jun 09, 2015
22 – War and Separation: Life on the Homefront During World War II
May 26, 2015
21 – The Secret (and Not So Secret) Life of Theresa Sparks
May 12, 2015
20 – The Birth of Rice-A-Roni: The San Francisco, Italian, Armenian Treat
Apr 28, 2015
19 – America Eats: A Hidden Archive
Apr 13, 2015
18 – A Man Tapes his Town: The Unrelenting Oral Histories of Eddie McCoy
Mar 24, 2015
17 – Unfinished Business: Ali vs Frazier VI, Daughters of Destiny
Mar 10, 2015
16 – The Green Street Mortuary Band
Feb 24, 2015
15 – Electronic Memories: R.A. Coleman’s Memphis
Feb 10, 2015
14 – Taylor Negron: Portrait of an Artist as an Answering Machine
Jan 27, 2015
13 – Sam Phillips and the Early Years of the Memphis Recording Service: We Record Anything, Anywhere, Anytime
Jan 13, 2015
The Nights of Edith Piaf
Dec 16, 2014
11 – Cigar Stories: El Lector—He Who Reads
Nov 25, 2014
10 – Dissident Kitchens
Nov 13, 2014
9 – Atomic Wine
Oct 30, 2014
The Pizza Connection + Turnspit Dogs
Oct 14, 2014
7 – Just Girls: The Hidden World of Patti Smith and Judy Linn
Sep 03, 2014
6 – Cry Me A River: A story of three pioneering river activists and the damming of wild rivers in the west
Jul 31, 2014
5 – The Making of the Homobile: A Story of Transportation, Civil Rights & Glitter (and further stories of making…)
Jun 24, 2014
4 – The French Manicure – The Long Shadow of Shirley Temple
May 15, 2014
3 – Eel Pie Island
Apr 12, 2014
2 – Tennessee Williams: The Pennyland Recordings
Feb 27, 2014
1 – The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall and Rise of Thomas Alva Edison
Feb 04, 2014