The Kitchen Sisters Present

The Kitchen Sisters Present


Latest Episodes

180 - The Great Amish Pandemic Sewing Frolic
January 04, 2022

When we saw the Cleveland Clinic's full page ad reading "HELP" we thought it was time to reprise this story about the Amish community collaborating with the outside world to combat Covid-19 and keep p

179 - The Nights of Edith Piaf
December 21, 2021

She rose every day at dusk and rehearsed, performed, ate and drank until dawn. Then slept all day, woke up and began to create and unravel again as the sun went down. With stories from some of France’

178- Hidden Kitchens - With Host Frances McDormand
December 07, 2021

Stories of secret, underground, below the radar cooking — how people come together through food — from the duPont Columbia and James Beard Award winning NPR series, Hidden Kitchens.

177 - The Pardoning of Homer Plessy
November 16, 2021

One hundred twenty five years after he was convicted for sitting down in a whites-only train car, Homer Plessy may be pardoned. In 1896, his landmark case, Plessy v. Ferguson, went before the Supreme

176-Arctic Ice, Extreme Weather—Activist Photographer Camille Seaman
November 02, 2021

Arctic Ice, Extreme Weather, the Reckoning at Standing Rock —a journey into the deep, rich world of photographer, Camille Seaman.  

175 - Finding Julia Morgan
October 19, 2021

The almost forgotten story of Julia Morgan, the first woman architect to be licensed in California and the architect of more than 700 buildings including the famed Hearst Castle in San Simeon.

174 - The Braveheart Grandmothers and Yankton Sioux Coming of Age Ceremony
October 05, 2021

The Braveheart Women’s Society, a group of Yankton Sioux grandmothers and tribal elders, have re-established an almost forgotten coming of age ritual for young girls—the Isnati, a four day traditional

173 - Betty Reid Soskin, Celebrating the 100th Birthday of the Oldest Park Ranger in America
September 21, 2021

Betty Reid Soskin, the nation's oldest serving Park Ranger, works at the Rosie the Riveter Home Front World War II National Historical Park in Richmond, CA. As a Black woman who worked in the segregat

172 - The Sonic Memorial—The 20th Anniversary of 9/11m], Narrated by Paul Auster
September 07, 2021

The Peabody Award winning Sonic Memorial —an intimate and historic documentary commemorating the life and history of the World Trade Center and its neighborhood through audio artifacts, rare recording

171—What Fire Reveals: Stories from the CZU August Lightning Fires in The Santa Cruz Mountains
August 16, 2021

In the aftermath of the devastating 2020 CZU August Lightning Complex fires in the Santa Cruz Mountains, The Kitchen Sisters turned their microphones on the region, looking for what was lost and what