The Kitchen Sisters Present

The Kitchen Sisters Present


Latest Episodes

141—Pati Jinich's Mexican Jewish Table
May 12, 2020

An intimate, inspiring conversation with Mexican chef and cookbook author, Pati Jinich, host of the James Beard Award winning PBS series Pati's Mexican Table and resident chef at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington D.C.

140 -The Climate Underground with Al Gore and Alice Waters
April 17, 2020

Al Gore is back and he’s got a new slide show. Al Gore, Alice Waters, farmers, chefs, scientists, entrepreneurs, policy makers —a riveting series of conversations and discussions from Al Gore's 2019 Climate Summit about the role food and regenerative agri

139 - Waiting for Joe DiMaggio
April 14, 2020

April 1993: A small village in Sicily makes lavish preparations for the first visit of baseball legend Joe DiMaggio to the town where his parents were born and raised. But he never comes.

138 - The Keepers - Archive Fever, with host Frances McDormand
March 24, 2020

Prince's epic Vault in Minneapolis, Henri Langlois' legendary Cinémathéque in Paris, The Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System and more stories from The Keepers - Part Two - a special episode hosted by Frances McDormand.

137- The Keepers - Archiving the Underground, with Host Frances McDormand
March 10, 2020

The Hiphop Archive at Harvard, the Pack Horse Librarians of Eastern Kentucky, the Lenny Bruce Archive—these stories and more in this special episode of The Keepers with host Frances McDormand.

136 - The Lou Reed Archive with Laurie Anderson
February 25, 2020

Lou Reed—music icon, poet, photographer, Tai Chi master, vital force in the cultural life and underworld of New York City. The story of his archive and how it came to the New York Public Library — from his days with The Velvet Underground, through his sol

135 - Deep Fried Fuel - A Biodiesel Kitchen Vision - Celebrating Over the Road
February 11, 2020

In celebration of truckers everywhere and of Radiotopia’s new show Over the Road, The Kitchen Sisters visit some of their favorite Texas pitstops: Carl's Corner Truck Stop in Carl's Corner, Texas where Willie Nelson introduced BioWillie in 2004; Fuel City

133 - WHER - 1000 Beautiful Watts, The First All-Girl Radio Station in the Nation
January 28, 2020

When Sam Phillips sold Elvis’ contract in 1955 he used the money to start an all-girl radio station in Memphis, TN. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights movement, the women's movement, Vietnam and the death of Martin Luther King, the story of WHER

133 - Theaster Gates — Keeping the South Side
January 14, 2020

Theaster Gates, Keeper of Greater Grand Crossing his neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, resurrects old dilapidated neighborhood buildings, transforming them into living archives, institutes of music, culture, film and gathering, preserving and ren

132 - The Pancake Years
December 24, 2019

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.