The 10 Best The Kitchen Sisters Present Podcast Episodes
1) 108 - The Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System
Melvil Dewey, the father of library science and the inventor of the most popular library classification system in the world, was a known racist and serial sexual harasser. Forced out of the American L...Show More
2) 146 — French Manicure—Tales from Vietnamese Shops in America
In honor of the many people who work in nail salons across the country who are struggling to keep their businesses from going under during these long closures, The Kitchen Sisters Present French Manic...Show More
3) 219 - Edith Warner's Atomic Tea Room
It was top secret. But everyone in Santa Fe knew there was something going on up on the hill in the remote, desert mountains of Los Alamos in 1943. J. Robert Oppenheimer and dozens of the top scientis...Show More
4) 64 – Kimchi Diplomacy: Hidden Kitchens – War and Peace and Food
Kimchi in space. The Kimchi Bus. Korean government-sponsored chefs and restaurants spreading the word of Kimchi around the globe. A story of “Gastrodiplomacy” — the use of food as a diplomatic tool in...Show More
5) 100 - The Keepers: Archiving the Underground—The Hip Hop Archive
This is the first episode in our new series THE KEEPERS—stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians—Keepers of the culture and the cultures and collections th...Show More
6) Emily Dickinson's Hidden Kitchen—Black Cake
Deep in the hidden archives of Harvard’s Houghton Library are the butter stained recipes of Emily Dickinson. Who knew? Emily Dickinson was better known by most as a baker than a poet in her lifetime. ...Show More
7) Oprah, Kamala, and The New Orleans Four
There was a moment at the 2024 Democratic National Convention when Oprah took the stage — and the crowd went wild. She spoke boldly about Kamala Harris and her place in a long line of strong Black wom...Show More
8) 94 - Tequila Chamber of Commerce & The Birth of the Frozen Margarita
The Agave Goddess with 200 breasts; jimadors stripping lethal thorny leaves off agaves; farmers battling cambio climatico (climate change); distillers contemplating mono-culture production and the ...Show More
9) 211 - House/Full of Black Women
For some eight years now thirty-four Black women have gathered monthly around a big dining room table in the orange house on Orange Street in Oakland, CA—meeting, cooking, dancing, strategizing—grappl...Show More
10) 122 - Burning Man — Archiving the Ephemeral
"Hello Kitchen Sisters, I am a rogue archivist, the archivist for Burning Man. Come to Burning Man headquarters and I’ll show you the collection. Cheers.” — LadyBee, Archivist & Art Collection Manage...Show More