The Kitchen Sisters Present

The Kitchen Sisters Present


Latest Episodes

151 - Pearl Jam: It's a Rock Band, Not The Smithsonian
October 13, 2020

Sometimes we find the story, sometimes the story finds us. Such is the case with this tale of two Keepers from the Pacific Northwest, the official/unofficial archivists for Pearl Jam. Caroline Losneck, a radio producer in Maine heard our Keepers series ab

150 — Floating City - The Mirabeau Water Garden, New Orleans
September 22, 2020

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 of "living with water" in New Orleans. Mirabeau Water Garden, one

149 - The Sonic Memorial—Remembering 9/11 with host Paul Auster
September 08, 2020

The Peabody Award winning, intimate and historic documentary commemorating the life and history of the World Trade Center and its surrounding neighborhood, through audio artifacts, rare recordings, voicemail messages and interviews.

148 - Youth on Fire—The International Congress of Youth Voices
August 25, 2020

Picture this: 131 youth activists and visionaries, 13 to 26 years old, from 37 countries—students, writers, poets, marchers, community leaders all gathered in San Juan, Puerto Rico in August 2019 to plan and ignite change in the world.

147 - Kamal Mouzawak—A Lebanese Kitchen Vision
August 11, 2020

In homage to the people of Lebanon The Kitchen Sisters Present a journey through the hidden kitchens of Lebanon with kitchen activist and restaurateur Kamal Mouzawak, a man with a vision of re-building and uniting this war-ravaged nation through its tradi

146 — French Manicure—Tales from Vietnamese Shops in America
July 28, 2020

In honor of the many people who work in nail salons across the country who are struggling to keep their businesses from going under during these long closures, The Kitchen Sisters Present French Manicure —Tales from Vietnamese Nail Shops in America.

145 - Louis Jones, Field Archivist, Detroit
July 14, 2020

Louis Jones, Field Archivist at Ruether Library, Wayne State University—the largest labor archive in North America—takes us through the collection with stories of the UAW, Cesar Chavez, Utah Phillips, A. William Randolph and the Civil Rights Movement, the

144 - 95,000 Names—Gert McMullin, Sewing the Frontline
June 19, 2020

Gert McMullin, The "Mother of the AIDS Memorial Quilt" memorializing those who died in the AIDS pandemic, is now sewing masks for nurses and health care workers made from fabric left over from the making of the AIDS Quilt. The Story of Gert, the Quilt, ac

143 - The McDonogh Three—First Day of School
June 09, 2020

November 14, 1960, New Orleans. Three six-year-old girls, flanked by Federal Marshals, walked through screaming crowds and policemen on horseback as they approached their new school for the first time—McDonogh No. 19. Leona Tate thought it must be Mardi G

142—From King Henry the VIII to the Rolling Stones on Eel Pie Island
May 26, 2020

Eel Pie Island, a tiny bit of land in the River Thames with a flamboyant history involving King Henry the VIII, Charles Dickens, The Rolling Stones, Pete Townshend, Rod Stewart, Anjelica Huston, Trad Jazz, Rock and Roll, and eel pie—a disappearing London