The Kitchen Sisters Present

The Kitchen Sisters Present


Latest Episodes

200 - Manny’s: A Civic Gathering Place
October 18, 2022

Manny Yekutiel has created a gathering space in San Francisco for people to watch presidential debates, meet people working on the front lines of social change, and discuss issues with policy makers i

199 - Linda Ronstadt: Feels Like Home - A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands
October 04, 2022

The legendary Linda Ronstadthas a new book out. Feels LikeHome: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands ahistorical, musical,edible memoirthat spansthe story of five generationsof LindasMexican

198 - The Real Ambassadors: Dave Brubeck, Iola Brubeck, and Louis Armstrong
September 20, 2022

In the late 1950s, Dave and Iola Brubeck wrote a jazz musical for Louis Armstronga rallying cry for integration, cultural exchange and social justice.

197 - What Fire Reveals: Stories from the Amah Mutsun, Big Basin and the Lightning Fires in the Santa Cruz Mountains
September 06, 2022

Amah Mutsun Tribal leaders, Big State Parks historians, and mountain residents who lost their homes, share their stories and perspectives about what was lost and what has been revealed in the devastat

196 - Afghan Women Refugees in America (Rebroadcast)
August 16, 2022

The stories of young Afghan women journalists, musicians and activists, now living in the US, who fled their country in fear for their lives when theTaliban took over their nation in August 2021.

195 - Sheikh Imam: Egypt's Voice of Dissent
August 02, 2022

A blind oud player from humble beginnings, Sheikh Imams destiny changed drastically when he met a dissident poet called Ahmed Fouad Negm, and they formed a duo. Together, they would go on start a new

194 - From Pinoy to Punk — The Rise of the Mabuhay Gardens
July 19, 2022

The story of a small Filipino nightclub in San Francisco that transformed into one the most influential punk venues attracting bands like The Avengers, The GoGos, Patti Smith and so many otherspushin

193 - Afghan Women Refugees in America
July 05, 2022

The story of an astonishing group ofyoung Afghan women journalists, musicians and activists, now living in the US, who fled their country in fear for their lives when theTaliban took over their nati

192 - Monterey Pop Festival Revisited
June 21, 2022

For three days in June, 1967, the sleepy fairgrounds in Monterey, CA rocked with Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who, Ravi Shankar, Otis Redding, Hugh Masekela and so many other legendary greats at th

191—The Egg Wars and the Farallon Islands
June 07, 2022

A hidden Gold Rush kitchen—when food was scarce and men died for eggs. We travel out to the forbidding Farallon Islands, 27 miles outside San Francisco’s Golden Gate, home to the largest seabird colon