The Kitchen Sisters Present

The Kitchen Sisters Present


Latest Episodes

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
February 23, 2021

In this lushly produced soundscape, Lawrence talks about his youth, reads his poetry, and muses with his friend Erik Bauersfeld about life, death and art. Produced in collaboration with sound designer Jim McKee who recorded Lawrence and chronicled his lif

160—Can Do: Black Visionaries, Seekers, and Entrepreneurs-with Host Alfre Woodard
February 23, 2021

Hosted by Alfre Woodard—stories of Black pioneers, seekers and entrepreneurs - self-made men and self-taught women, neighborhood heroes and visionaries. People who said "yes we can" and then did. A compilation of stories produced by The Kitchen Sisters.

159 — Nomadland with Frances McDormand
February 09, 2021

Academy Award winning Frances McDormand talks about her latest film Nomadland coming to Hulu and select theaters and drive ins starting February 19, 2020. A story about people uprooted from their old jobs and neighborhoods now living in DIY customized van

158 — A Plea for Peace: Leonard Bernstein, Richard Nixon, and the Music of the 1973 Inauguration
January 26, 2021

In January 1973, following the Christmas bombing of Vietnam, conductor Leonard Bernstein gathered an impromptu orchestra and choir to perform an "anti-inaugural concert" protesting Richard Nixon's official inaugural concert and his escalation of the Vietn

157 — Chido Govera—The Mushroom Queen of Zimbabwe
January 12, 2021

A mushroom farmer, food activist, business entrepreneur, foster mother to more than a dozen girls— Chido Govera is a kitchen visionary in Zimbabwe—a pioneer in the cultivation of mushrooms throughout Africa and the world.

156 — The Amish Pandemic Sewing Frolic
December 22, 2020

It was April 2020. The pandemic was really starting to roar. PPE was scarce and supply chains were already breaking down. Every hospital was scrambling to find enough masks, gowns and face shields. It was already every state, every institution for itself.

155 - Frances McDormand in Nomadland
December 08, 2020

Frances McDormand talks about the making of her extraordinary new film Nomadland directed by Chole Zhao and based on the non fiction book by Jessica Bruder about and her experiences in the van-dwelling community. With clips from author Jessica Bruder, dir

154 — Hunting & Gathering with Angelo Garro
November 24, 2020

Angelo Garro – a Sicilian blacksmith living in a forge in San Francisco with a passion for hunting, foraging, opera, cooking, pickling, curing salamis, making wine and generously tending and feeding his friends and community. A Thanksgiving gift.

153 — The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Corporal Michael A. Baronowski
November 10, 2020

In 1966, a young Marine, Michael A. Baronowski, took a reel-to-reel tape recorder with him into the Vietnam War recording his life in foxholes, in combat and sending these audio letters home to his family. Then he was killed in action. Thirty-four years l

152 — Winona LaDuke—First Born Daughter
October 27, 2020

Winona LaDuke is a force to be reckoned with and she’s in it for the long haul. Ojibwe leader, two-time Vice Presidential candidate for the Green Party, food activist, rural development economist, hemp farmer, Harvard graduate, first born daughter—she's a