Hidden Kitchens

Series produced by The Kitchen Sisters

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Secret, underground, unexpected, below-the-radar, community cooking across America

An ongoing series exploring the world of hidden kitchens: street-corner cooking, legendary meals and eating traditions...how communities come together through food.


16 Pieces

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Between Us, Bread and Salt: Kamal Mouzawak and his Lebanon Kitchen Vision
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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A road trip through the hidden kitchens of Lebanon, with kitchen activist, Kamal Mouzawak, a man with a vision of re-building and uniting this war-...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA


  • Added: Sep 27, 2016
  • Length: 25:42
  • Purchases: 1
Hidden Kitchens: The Raw & The Cooked
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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An hour-long journey into the world of clandestine cooking, kitchen rituals and traditions. Tales of kitchens that suddenly pop up, kitchens that s...

Bought by KZYX, KPIK-LP, KOSU, WITF, KUNM and more


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 54:56
  • Purchases: 51
Hidden Kitchen Mama
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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Mothers and kitchens. The food they cooked or didn’t. The stories they told or couldn’t. In honor of Mother’s Day we linger in the kitchen.

Bought by KWMR, XRAY.fm, WABE, PRX Remix, WCAI / WNAN and more


  • Added: May 04, 2010
  • Length: 08:23
  • Purchases: 11
The Birth of the Frito
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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The secret saga of a Texas corn chip, and C.E. Doolin, the can-do kitchen visionary behind it. The Kitchen Sisters travel to Dallas and discover an...

Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, WNPR, The Story, KUOW and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2009
  • Length: 07:19
  • Purchases: 10
Weenie Royale; The Impact of the Internment on Japanese Cooking in America
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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After Pearl Harbor, about 120,000 Japanese Americans were uprooted and forced to live for years in remote federal camps around the country. The uph...

Bought by WABE, KPIK-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WABE and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2009
  • Length: 09:18
  • Purchases: 17
Sugar in the Milk: A Parsi Kitchen Story
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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Niloufer Ichaporia King lives in a house with 3 kitchen. She goes to 6 farmer's markets a week. She is an anthropologist, a kitchen botanist, a one...

Bought by KWMR, WABE, KUOW, PRX Remix, and KVNF


  • Added: Mar 19, 2009
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 5
Broncos & Boudin: The Angola Prison Rodeo
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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Hidden Kitchens travels to the Louisiana State Penitentiary and the world of unexpected, below-the-radar, down-home convict cooking at the Angola P...

Bought by WABE, The Story, PRX Remix, Iowa Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 19, 2009
  • Length: 07:26
  • Purchases: 5
The Sheepherder's Ball: Hidden Basque Kitchens
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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In the last century, Basque people fleeing Francisco Franco's dictatorship flocked to America, herding sheep across the West. "Hidden Kitchens" exp...

Bought by KZYX, WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, The Story, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Mar 19, 2009
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 8
Garden Allotments: A London Kitchen Vision
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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Hidden Kitchens travels to London to explore the old and endangered tradition of Allotments, urban communal garden plots wedged in between building...

Bought by WABE, Troy Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KZYX, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Mar 19, 2009
  • Length: 06:49
  • Purchases: 7
The Birth of Rice-A-Roni
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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The worlds of a young Canadian immigrant, an Italian pasta-making family, and a 70-year-old Armenian woman converge in this story of the creation o...

Bought by KWMR, WABE, KALW, PRX Remix, KSFR and more


  • Added: Mar 19, 2009
  • Length: 07:43
  • Purchases: 6
Black Chefs, White House
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
Caption: George Washington's Chef, Hercules
Hidden Kitchens explores the food of the founding fathers through the stories of Hercules and James Hemings, enslaved chefs of George Washington an...

Bought by KZYX, Prairie Public, Marfa Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KPIK-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 03, 2009
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 11
Hidden Kitchens Texas
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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Hidden Kitchens Texas, a new hour of lively, sound-rich stories from Peabody Award-winning producers, The Kitchen Sisters, KUT Austin, and NPR. Hos...

Bought by KOSU, Wisconsin Public Radio, KAZU, Red River Radio Network, Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2007
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Mozart's Hidden Kitchen & The Tables of New Crowned Hope
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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The Kitchen Sisters take us to Vienna to Mozart's Hidden Kitchen and The Tables of New Crowned Hope

Bought by PRX Remix and WEKU


  • Added: Jan 26, 2007
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 2
Harvest on Big Rice Lake
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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Each fall, the Ojibwa tribes of northern Minnesota harvest wild rice by hand. It's a long process that brings families in canoes into tall lake gra...

Bought by Prairie Public, WABE, Vocalo.org, KUOW, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2006
  • Length: 07:51
  • Purchases: 12
Hidden Kitchens Special - Hour Two
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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Two new one-hour specials journey into the world of street corner cooking, kitchen rituals and visionaries? how communities come together through ...

Bought by KAZU, Wisconsin Public Radio, XRAY.fm, KRCB-FM "Radio 91", WRIR and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2005
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 15
Hidden Kitchens Special - Hour One
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Hidden Kitchens
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Two new one-hour specials journey into the world of street corner cooking, kitchen rituals and visionaries— how communities come together through f...

Bought by KAZU, KQED, Wisconsin Public Radio, KREV-LP, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2005
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 20

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