Spring Notes from The Kitchen Sisterhood
Dear Friends,Here are some projects and endeavors that have caught our attention and we want to pass along.Keep it rolling,The Kitchen SistersArchives we're trollingPrelinger Library: Outsider...
View ArticleNews from Salt Part 5, from Alix Blair, Guest Blogger
Hello Blog: this will be short. We're in the final week. The six day count down. All work is due, in it's finality, next Wednesday at 5pm.Next Thursday is our show of student work, Friday's the...
View ArticleKitchen Sisters Interviewing & Recording Workshop
Davia is conducting a 3-hour basic recording and interviewing workshop on Thursday, June 25 at 10:00 AM in San Francisco.It is intended not just for people in radio, but those interested in oral...
View ArticleAmerica Eats
During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration hired writers to document the food traditions and rituals of America, a sort of Hidden Kitchens of the 1930s. Out-of-work authors--Eudora...
View ArticleThe Breadbasket Blues: A Central Valley Kitchen Story
In this latest Hidden Kitchens story, we travel to California's Central Valley, the nation's breadbasket, to look at what is feeding the epidemic of juvenile obesity and type 2 diabetes, and talk to...
View ArticleMark Arax
For our most recent Hidden Kitchens piece, The Breadbasket Blues: A Central Valley Kitchen Story, we interviewed former Los Angeles Times reporter Mark Arax, author of the new book West of the West:...
View ArticleJuly Notes from The Kitchen Sisterhood
Dear Friends,So much crosses our desks and our microphones. Only so much of it makes it to the air. Here are some collaborations and projects that have recently caught our attention we thought you'd...
View ArticleTour of the La Selva Commune
A few months back Vanessa Bertozzi, our colleague and friend who worked with us on The Sonic Memorial Project, wrote us with a "little bit of a crazy proposal." She's now working for Etsy, an online...
View ArticleBiscuit Tour 2009—Birmingham
Just returned from Birmingham, Alabama where we presented an oral history and audio production workshop as part of the series Dialogue on Food at Birmingham-Southern College. During this year-long...
View ArticleTwo New Recording & Interviewing Workshops this Fall
Davia is conducting two basic recording and interviewing workshops in San Francisco. Thursday, October 29 and Thursday, November 5 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM. The three hour workshop is for people who...
View ArticleOperation Frontline's Mobile Classroom Kitchen
We met Catherine Luu of Operation Frontline at our recent Hidden Kitchens event at the California Endowment in Los Angeles, "Who Glues Your Community Together through Food?" We thought we'd share the...
View ArticleA Call for Stories and a Contest
The Kitchen Sisters are looking for stories and images and videos and writings.We're launching a new multimedia series on NPR this January, a listener collaboration in the tradition of Hidden Kitchens,...
View ArticleAminatou Haidar
The story of Aminatou Haidar just recently come to our attention. We hope you will take a moment and see what is happening with her right now. This message came from Sairica Rose who we are working...
View ArticleHelp Support The Kitchen Sisters
"People need stories in hard times. They go to storytellers when times are hard like these." - Bruce SpringsteenDear Friends,We've always said our microphone is a stethoscope listening to the...
View ArticleLos Angeles Times Feature
The Kitchen Sisters were featured in the Los Angeles Times Food Section. Take a look here.
View ArticleThe Futurist Cookbook
A new Hidden Kitchens story airs tonight on KALW 91.7 in San Francisco at 5:00 during Crosscurrents. You can listen live online at kalw.org.The story, produced with Roman Mars takes a look at F.T....
View ArticleTitle Contest Submissions
Recently we sent out a call for stories and a contest to name our new series about the secret life of girls around the world, girls and the women they become. So far we have received hundreds of title...
View ArticleCharo on Latino USA
Maria Hinojosa, one our favorite people at KUT Austin has an extended, intimate conversation with the incomparable Charo on her show NPR's Latino USA. Listen here."Women Taking to the Streets" ,...
View ArticleChristina Kim Installation at the Brandenburg Gate
Designer Christina Kim, one of the artists we are following for our new series about girls around the world, sent us this photo from Berlin of the epic curtain she is creating using recycled movie...
View ArticleLois DeDomenico
We were just sent a blog post about Lois DeDomenico, who we interviewed for our Hidden Kitchens story, Rice-A-Roni. Lois will be a judge at Ultimate Chef America, "Iron Chef for the senior set." Read...
View ArticleWomen In the World
This weekend we are attending Women in the World: Stories and Solutions, a summit sponsored by The Daily Beast, showcasing dozens of powerful women and activists from around the world.The Daily Beast...
View ArticleHidden World of Girls Launches!
Today on NPR's Morning Edition and this evening on All Things Considered the first stories of our new series Hidden World of Girls airs. We'd love you to call the NPR message line with your story...
View ArticleA look inside Bay Area's YOUTH RADIO
We love Youth Radio and are thrilled to see this new book emerge that takes you inside and behind the scenes of this dynamic youth-driven production company based in Oakland, California.Drop That...
View ArticleUpdates
For updates about The Hidden World of Girls, visit: hiddenworldofgirls.org or facebook.com/hiddenworldofgirlsFor updates about The Kitchen Sisters visit: facebook.com/kitchensisters or...
View ArticleKitchen Sisters Workshop
WHAT: Kitchen Sisters Recording, Interviewing & "Sound Doctor" WorkshopWHEN: Thursday, October 27, 2011. 10 AM—1 PMWHERE: La Selva Beach, CA (Near Santa Cruz)COST: $115 (payable to Kitchen Sisters...
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