Beste The Kitchen Sisters podcasts (2024)

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Beyond Architecture: The Fantasy Worlds of Phyllis Birkby 45:28

6d ago45:28

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Pushed to the side and rarely credited for her architectural work at Davis Brody, Phyllis Birkby became a significant figure in extending the lesbian women's movement to architecture during the 1970s. Her environmental fantasy workshops played a crucial role in galvanizing the community, providing a creative and empowering space within a male-domin…

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Constellation Prize: Nightwalking 30:53

20d ago30:53

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It is Tuesday, November 5, 2024, the day when millions of Americans go to the polls to vote for who will lead their towns, their states, the nation. Souls to the polls today across the country, and so much hangs in the balance. On this fraught and tender Tuesday, when all our nerves are frayed, we offer a moment of respite and contemplation — an ep…

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The Hope and the Scope: Young People and the Political Moment 32:07

1M ago32:07

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July 17, 2024, Washington, D.C. Some 200 young people from across the nation aged 14-19 — aspiring poets, storytellers, MC's, activists — are gathered in the nation’s capital for the 29th annual Brave New Voices Festival — four non-stop days of slam poetry competition, coaching, workshops, late-night freestyling and in 2024, voting information. In …

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Tupperware 10:52

2M ago10:52

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Today, The Kitchen Sisters Present: “Tupperware” — an homage and a eulogy. It was 1980. Nikki and I had just met. We had just named ourselves The Kitchen Sisters. And we had just bought our first cassette recorder, a Sony TC-D5M. We hadn’t even taken it out of the box or been trained on it when we were invited to a Tupperware party our friend Kirst…

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Manny's: A Civic Gathering Place 32:25

2M ago32:25

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As elections loom, we need to get involved, step up to the civic plate, take part in discourse. And that’s what Manny Yekutiel has been driven to do since 2018. He’s created a community-focused meeting place in San Francisco — a gathering space for people to watch presidential debates, meet people working on the front lines of social change, and di…

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Oprah, Kamala, and The New Orleans Four 17:38

3M ago17:38

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There was a moment at the 2024 Democratic National Convention when Oprah took the stage — and the crowd went wild. She spoke boldly about Kamala Harris and her place in a long line of strong Black women who have paved the way. At one point she veered into the story of Tessie Prevost Williams, who recently passed away, and the New Orleans Four. Nove…

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Burning Man: Archiving the Ephemeral 18:45

3M ago18:45

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On the night of Summer Solstice 1986, Larry Harvey and Jerry James built and burned an eight-foot wooden figure on San Francisco's Baker Beach surrounded by a handful of friends. Burning Man was born. This summer, the 39th annual Burning Man gathering begins to assemble on a vast dry lake bed in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, the nomadic ritual's home…

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Henri Langlois and the Cinémathèque Française 31:18

4M ago31:18

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In honor of the Paris Olympics and the astounding contribution of the French to culture and art of the world, The Kitchen Sisters Present, Archive Fever: Henri Langlois and the history of the Cinémathèque Française, featuring Francis Ford Coppola, Wim Wenders, Tom Luddy, Lotte Eisner, Simone Signoret, Agnes Varda, Costa-Gavras, Barbet Schroeder. He…

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Linda Ronstadt Day 30:20

4M ago30:20

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San Francisco officially declared July 15th Linda Ronstadt Day. In her honor, The Kitchen Sisters Present this story about her book, Feels Like Home, about her family, and the food, culture and music of the borderland of Arizona and Mexico where she is rooted. Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands is an historical, musical, edible mem…

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Traveling Route 66 — The Mother Road 58:59

5M ago58:59

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Route 66—The Main Street of America— the first continuously paved highway linking east and west was the most traveled and well known road in the US for almost fifty years. From Chicago, through the Ozarks, across Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle, up the mesas of New Mexico and Arizona, and down into California to the Pacific Ocean. The first road of i…

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Laying the Groundwork: Women in American Architecture, Spring 1977 26:33

5M ago26:33

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In 1977, a cavernous, rarely used sculpture gallery in the Brooklyn Museum was filled with drafting tables, their tops tilted to display collages of the work and under-told stories of women working in architecture in the United States. We revisit this first significant effort to publicly tell the little known stories of American women in architectu…

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A Floating City Vision - Mirabeau Water Garden, New Orleans 17:45

6M ago17:45

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As this year's hurricane season ramps up, we go to New Orleans for a kind of biblical reckoning. A story of science and prayer, with a cast of improbable partners—environmental architects and nuns—coming together to create a vision for living with water in New Orleans. Mirabeau Water Garden, one of the largest urban wetlands in the country designed…

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Dissident Kitchens 15:39

6M ago15:39

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On February 16, 2024 Russian dissident Alexei Navalny died under unexplained circumstances in a penal colony in the Russian Arctic just weeks before the election that enthroned Vladimir Putin for another six years of near-absolute power. Within days of Navalny’s death his wife Yulia Navalnaya rose up, spoke out and vowed to continue her husband’s s…

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Eleanor Coppola: Notes on a Life 52:43

7M ago52:43

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On April 12, 2024, Eleanor Coppola, artist, filmmaker, mother and wife of director Francis Ford Coppola, died at her home in the Napa Valley surrounded by family. She was 87 years old and had lived a most remarkable life. Shortly before her death, Eleanor had completed her third memoir. In it she wrote: “I appreciate how my unexpected life has stre…

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Cool Hair, Great Smile: Remembering Knox Phillips 40:02

7M ago40:02

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Over the years, The Kitchen Sisters have zeroed in on Memphis, Tennessee in a big way. The inspiration for that and the inspiration for some of our favorite stories is Knox Phillips. Davia met Knox in 1997 in Memphis when she was doing casting for Francis Ford Coppola’s film The Rainmaker. She was on the set standing next to a guy. Cool hair, great…

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The Romance and Sex Life of the Date 15:13

8M ago15:13

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In 1898, the United States Department of Agriculture created a special department of men, called “Agriculture Explorers,” to travel the globe searching for new food crops to bring back for farmers to grow in the U.S. These men introduced exotic specimens like the mango, the avocado, and the date. In 1900, the USDA sent plant explorer, Walter Swingl…

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Parsi New Year—First Day of Spring 17:52

8M ago17:52

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Niloufer Ichaporia King lives in a house with three kitchens. She prowls through six farmer’s markets a week in search of unusual greens, roots, seeds, and traditional food plants from every immigrant culture. She is an anthropologist, a kitchen botanist, a one-of-a-kind cook, a Parsi from Bombay living in San Francisco, and the author of My Bombay…

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Buildings Speak: Stories of Pioneering Women Architects hosted by Frances McDormand 50:55

9M ago50:55

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Little known stories of pioneering architects — Julia Morgan, the first accredited female architect in California, who designed Hearst Castle and was nearly written out of the history books. Natalie de Blois, who helped imagine the first glass skyscrapers on Park Avenue by day and raised four children by night. Amaza Lee Meredith, a Black queer mod…

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Black Chef, White House—African American Chefs in the President's Kitchen 16:13

9M ago16:13

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A look at the President’s kitchen and some of the first cooks to feed the Founding Fathers—Hercules and James Hemings—the enslaved chefs of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Hercules, described as a “dandy,” had eight assistants—stewards, butlers, undercooks, waiters. He cooked in a huge fireplace—hearth cooking. He walked through the streets…

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The Mardi Gras Indians—Stories from New Orleans 22:44

10M ago22:44

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Jelly Roll Morton talks of being a “Spy Boy” in the Mardi Gras Indian parades of his youth. Bo Dollis, of the Wild Magnolias, tells of sewing his suit of feathers and beads all night long. Tootie Montana masks for the first time as Mardi Gras starts up again after World War II. Big Queen Ausettua makes connections between the black Mardi Gras India…

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230 - Architecture, Family Style – Sarah Harkness & Jean Fletcher 44:42

10M ago44:42

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Sarah “Sally” Pillsbury and Jean B. Fletcher were both architects who married architects. The two women and their husbands were founding members of The Architects Collaborative (TAC), a visionary, idealistic architecture firm founded just after WWII. The two women, who had 13 children between them, lived with their families and several other foundi…

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229 - The Pancake Years - For Lenny on Christmas Eve 22:28

11M ago22:28

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For five years Davia’s father, Lenny Nelson, asked her to go to Rattlesden, England, to visit the Air Force base where he was stationed during WWII and to find an old photograph hanging in the town pub honoring his 8th Air Force squadron. It was still there, over 50 years later, he told her. Finally, one fine Sunday, Davia headed out in search of t…

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Emily Dickinson's Hidden Kitchen—Black Cake 30:05

11M ago30:05

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Deep in the hidden archives of Harvard’s Houghton Library are the butter stained recipes of Emily Dickinson. Who knew? Emily Dickinson was better known by most as a baker than a poet in her lifetime. In this story a beautiful line up of “Keepers”— dedicated archivists, librarians, historians, poets and more—lead us through the complex labyrinth of …

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227 - Lou Reed's Tai Chi 34:34

12M ago34:34

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Lou Reed, musician, rock icon, poet, leader of the legendary Velvet Underground, was obsessed with tai chi — the practice, the community, the health and spiritual benefits. Lou had been writing a book about this ancient martial art that was unfinished when he died in 2013. Lou’s wife, the artist and musician Laurie Anderson, looked at Lou's unfinis…

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226 - Kimchi Diplomacy—Hidden Kitchens: War & Peace and Food 20:17

1y ago20:17

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Late autumn is Kimjang season in the Republic of Korea when families and communities come together to make and share large quantities of kimchi to ensure that every household has enough to sustain it through the long, harsh winter. This story is part of series Hidden Kitchens: Kimchi Diplomacy — War & Peace and Food “Kimchi is everywhere in Korea. …

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Beyond Architecture: The Fantasy Worlds of Phyllis Birkby 45:28

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Constellation Prize: Nightwalking 30:53

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The Hope and the Scope: Young People and the Political Moment 32:07

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Tupperware 10:52

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Manny's: A Civic Gathering Place 32:25

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Oprah, Kamala, and The New Orleans Four 17:38

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Burning Man: Archiving the Ephemeral 18:45

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Henri Langlois and the Cinémathèque Française 31:18

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Linda Ronstadt Day 30:20

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Traveling Route 66 — The Mother Road 58:59

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Laying the Groundwork: Women in American Architecture, Spring 1977 26:33

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A Floating City Vision - Mirabeau Water Garden, New Orleans 17:45

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Dissident Kitchens 15:39

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Eleanor Coppola: Notes on a Life 52:43

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Cool Hair, Great Smile: Remembering Knox Phillips 40:02

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The Romance and Sex Life of the Date 15:13

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Parsi New Year—First Day of Spring 17:52

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Buildings Speak: Stories of Pioneering Women Architects hosted by Frances McDormand 50:55

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Black Chef, White House—African American Chefs in the President's Kitchen 16:13

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The Mardi Gras Indians—Stories from New Orleans 22:44

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230 - Architecture, Family Style – Sarah Harkness & Jean Fletcher 44:42

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229 - The Pancake Years - For Lenny on Christmas Eve 22:28

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Emily Dickinson's Hidden Kitchen—Black Cake 30:05

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227 - Lou Reed's Tai Chi 34:34

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226 - Kimchi Diplomacy—Hidden Kitchens: War & Peace and Food 20:17

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