tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21629148190601481742024-03-13T21:11:11.114-07:00The Kitchen Sisters“The Kitchen Sisters are possessed. By Sound. The rich
rewarding sounds of life that might otherwise have escaped
us. The sounds of the street and of the soul.“
Peter Jennings, 1938-2005The Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-56996707442157847322011-10-13T14:45:00.000-07:002011-10-13T14:53:11.207-07:00Kitchen Sisters Workshop<table style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; width: 400px;"><tbody>
<tr><td><span class="style1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WHAT: Kitchen Sisters Recording, Interviewing & "Sound Doctor" Workshop<br />WHEN: Thursday, October 27, 2011. 10 AM—1 PM<br />WHERE: La Selva Beach, CA (Near Santa Cruz)<br />COST: $115 (payable to Kitchen Sisters Productions)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="style1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Dear Friends,<br /><br />Nikki Silva of The Kitchen Sisters, award winning producers for NPR, is conducting a recording, interviewing, and "sound doctor" workshop on Thursday, October 27 in La Selva Beach (at the commune where she lives) just south of Santa Cruz. This three-hour session is designed for people who want to acquire and hone their skills for radio, online storytelling, oral histories, audio slide shows, family histories, museum exhibits, news, documentaries, podcasts, and other multimedia platforms.<br /><br />The workshop will cover miking techniques, sound gathering, use of archival audio, field recording techniques, how to make interviewees comfortable, how to frame evocative questions that make for compelling storytelling, how to listen (which is harder than it sounds) and more. We'll talk about creating audio and multimedia content for the web, and self-publishing projects. Nikki will also give a quick tour of her studio and ProTools editing set-up.<br /><br />The workshop will be customized to fit your project and interests. People who attend come from many mediums and work worlds (from radio stations to detective agencies and beyond). The groups are lively and good contacts are made.<br />You are invited to bring a work-in-progress, a past work, or an idea you'd like to brainstorm during the "audio doctor" part of the session. Nikki will play excerpts from a few Kitchen Sisters stories that are illustrative of various problem-solving techniques.<br /><br />The session will be limited in size so that everyone can fully participate around the table at La Selva. A snack will be provided.<br /><br />If you, or someone you know is interested, email <a href="mailto:kitchen@kitchensisters.org">kitchen@kitchensisters.org</a>. Please pass this along to a friend.<br /><br />See you there,<br />The Kitchen Sisters</span></td></tr>
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</tbody></table>The Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-67947818728685160172011-04-22T16:13:00.000-07:002011-04-22T16:17:36.880-07:00UpdatesFor updates about <b>The Hidden World of Girls</b>, visit: <a href="http://hiddenworldofgirls.org/">hiddenworldofgirls.org</a> or <a href="http://facebook.com/hiddenworldofgirls">facebook.com/hiddenworldofgirls</a><br /><br />For updates about <b>The Kitchen Sisters</b> visit: <a href="http://facebook.com/kitchensisters">facebook.com/kitchensisters</a> or <a href="http://twitter.com/kitchensisters">twitter.com/kitchensisters</a>The Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-65522240494096056432010-04-29T11:48:00.000-07:002010-04-29T12:26:09.314-07:00A look inside Bay Area's YOUTH RADIO<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAbLCf5V3g3giDFkt9nzAdErlt6XP_41LY1zrd9rM-mQxbUTjbSHBcijjd33hIS9rDh-ImklO77jPQR938AGd_4AM7kJqbWny4qGzQ_fGM6Akq3sULp9YlaRNJGtgpI7bQ8sbYtdoumZ4/s1600/youthradio.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAbLCf5V3g3giDFkt9nzAdErlt6XP_41LY1zrd9rM-mQxbUTjbSHBcijjd33hIS9rDh-ImklO77jPQR938AGd_4AM7kJqbWny4qGzQ_fGM6Akq3sULp9YlaRNJGtgpI7bQ8sbYtdoumZ4/s320/youthradio.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465641721297827922" /></a><br />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.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Drop That Knowledge</span> is written by Elizabeth Soep and former Youth Radio participant Vivian Chavez (now a professor at San Francisco State University), Drop That Knowledge is the first book to go inside <span style="font-weight:bold;">Youth Radio</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Read</span><a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10806.php"> more and buy a book</a> and then tune into <span style="font-weight:bold;">Bay Area's own <a href="http://www.youthradio.org/">Youth Radio</a>!</span><br /><br /><a href="http://boingboing.net/2010/04/23/digital-literacys-ne.html"> Here is Elizabeth Soeps Blog</a><br /><br /><a href="http://kalwnews.org/audio/2010/04/29/youth-radio-one-hour-special_333420.html">Listen </a> to a conversation about the book interwoven with entertaining Youth Radio stories on KALW at <a href="http://kalwnews.org/">kalwnews.org!</a>The Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-42125199534337728802010-03-22T08:59:00.000-07:002010-03-22T09:13:26.901-07:00Hidden World of Girls Launches!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCaJ71oxFE3_YaHynfCsCH1criUtGylwATz0I8fkbm53bxuD7QY0jmdJS43QbppoY4HBnlKXNATEPp-h551KUD5dQ943dxCjCyAoiVuevEG3i_eICt_5QQ4RaywYWDyLV2AsTLvKDmf54/s1600-h/TartitDigi03-150x150.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCaJ71oxFE3_YaHynfCsCH1criUtGylwATz0I8fkbm53bxuD7QY0jmdJS43QbppoY4HBnlKXNATEPp-h551KUD5dQ943dxCjCyAoiVuevEG3i_eICt_5QQ4RaywYWDyLV2AsTLvKDmf54/s320/TartitDigi03-150x150.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451492026562550786" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">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. </span><div><b><br /></b></div><div><span style="font-weight:bold;">We'd love you to call the NPR message line with your story ideas—202-408-9576.</span><div><b><br /></b></div><div><span style="font-weight:bold;">We're also looking for photos, videos, audio. Find out how to participate at <a href="http://www.hiddenworldofgirls.org">hiddenworldofgirls.org </a></span></div></div>The Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-86057907665095402682010-03-12T16:26:00.000-08:002010-03-12T16:35:42.345-08:00Women In the World<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.tdbimg.com/files/2010/03/02/img-article---women-in-the-world-logo_140023448049.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 107px;" src="http://www.tdbimg.com/files/2010/03/02/img-article---women-in-the-world-logo_140023448049.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br />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.<br /><br />The Daily Beast is streaming the entire conference live on their website. You can watch the events as they happen here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/womenintheworldlivevideoThe Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-63781110477846866892010-01-28T15:18:00.000-08:002010-01-28T16:04:18.200-08:00Lois DeDomenico<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://lettuceeatkale.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/lois-de-domenico.jpg?w=220&h=200"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 220px; height: 200px;" src="http://lettuceeatkale.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/lois-de-domenico.jpg?w=220&h=200" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />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 the post <a href="http://lettuceeatkale.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/rice-a-roni-cocreator-judges-ultimate-chef-america-shares-granola-recipe/">here</a> (which includes Lois' Crunchy Granola recipe).<br /><br />And listen to the Hidden Kitchens story with Lois <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93067862">here</a>.The Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-79249725849254727992010-01-28T14:40:00.000-08:002010-01-28T14:54:47.917-08:00Christina Kim Installation at the Brandenburg Gate<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiREaGQ2LylWigW2Qka9tDWFs6ONhxJ3yZEzGHaZWsump7nyGKi4qJ-tsbHl2E3LfX0oCxitQgzDjzq4II_Q-wHyI4FXDaDOnjx9feq-j83bGWXUfn15Ti9EAAY32mwTWxpE9Kg97uuTWQ/s1600-h/photo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiREaGQ2LylWigW2Qka9tDWFs6ONhxJ3yZEzGHaZWsump7nyGKi4qJ-tsbHl2E3LfX0oCxitQgzDjzq4II_Q-wHyI4FXDaDOnjx9feq-j83bGWXUfn15Ti9EAAY32mwTWxpE9Kg97uuTWQ/s400/photo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431925559578588626" border="0" /></a><br />Designer <a href="http://dosainc.com/">Christina Kim</a>, 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 posters hanging at the Brandenburg Gate for the <a href="http://www.berlinale.de/en/HomePage.html">60th Berlin Film Festival</a>.The Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-21138065310683910112010-01-19T09:58:00.000-08:002010-01-19T11:16:24.711-08:00Charo on Latino USA<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiofZUvzIrH23IY8Xi9FnIuHL3aXUZo0jzjf8KdA7v3yljSbzehkJdoCe73zi_RUdJgcBQVfpIVmDqmZBRC85OTWxBPE2g7LGoKMw_XAo18ZSe_J-MvCnr2Mkht60gvkTkJjfsd_2oaxY/s1600-h/charo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiofZUvzIrH23IY8Xi9FnIuHL3aXUZo0jzjf8KdA7v3yljSbzehkJdoCe73zi_RUdJgcBQVfpIVmDqmZBRC85OTWxBPE2g7LGoKMw_XAo18ZSe_J-MvCnr2Mkht60gvkTkJjfsd_2oaxY/s400/charo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428515100860211618" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><a href="http://latinousa.kut.org/maria-hinojosa/">Maria Hinojosa</a>, one our favorite people at </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://kut.org/">KUT Austin </a><span style="font-family:verdana;">has an extended, intimate conversation with the incomparable Charo on her show <a href="http://latinousa.kut.org/">NPR's Latino USA</a>. Listen <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://latinousa.kut.org/874/">here</a></span></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://latinousa.kut.org/874/">.</a><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://latinousa.kut.org/">"Women Taking to the Streets"</a> , </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:1em;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">another series of moving stories aired last week, includes interviews with ‘Just Associates,’ a pro-feminist organization active in Mesoamerica, Southeast Asia, and Southern Africa and a moving piece on </span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span>Esther Chavez Chano</span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">, one of the leading voices against the femicide in Juarez.</span><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Since 1993, NPR’s </span><i style="font-family: verdana;">Latino USA</i><span style="font-family:verdana;"> has been documenting one of the most incredible transformations of American life and reality—the exploding Latino population and its integration in the a changing America.</span></span>The Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-68394936563256054222009-12-17T15:47:00.000-08:002009-12-17T16:10:12.655-08:00Title Contest SubmissionsRecently 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 submissions and we wanted to share some of them. Here is The List:<br /><br />The Permanent Rose Project<br />Our Stories, Our Truth<br />Our Shared and Common Destiny<br />Hear Our Voices<br />Listen, Over Here<br />Over Here<br />Congratulations, it's a girl! (Or just: It's a girl!)<br />Spinning Straw into Gold (Or just: Straw into Gold)<br />And Jill came tumbling after<br />Let the girl do it<br />That's what girls do<br />The Shape of a Women<br />Sister Songs<br />Sister Secrets<br />Girlhood<br />unrealistic expectations<br />the girl nextdoor<br />Secret Spaces<br />The Secret Lives of Babes<br />The women they became<br />Sister's Garden<br />Girlstuff<br />Dolls, Damsels and Darlings: a journey to becoming a woman.<br />The Unsilencing of Girl Voices<br />Girls To Women<br />Who Are Girls<br />Spotlight On Girls<br />The Story of Girls<br />Girl Time<br />Girls Ave<br />Time for Girls<br />Ladies First<br />In their Words: girls and the women they've become<br />In our words<br />From Our Worlds, In Our Words<br />Wise Word<br />High Heels to Bare Feet or (Foot) Chronicles<br />Bare Feet or (Foot) to High Heels Chronicles<br />SisterSpeak<br />FemaleFactor<br />Shattered Ceilings or The Shattered Ceiling(s) Stories<br />This is My Story<br />Mountain High Valley Low<br />Girl Meets<br />World Meets Girl<br />The Global Diaries<br />The Chatter Bible<br />Girls Spill<br />Storied Endings<br />The Reflective Raconteur<br />All Ears Storytelling<br />Every Girl Has a Story<br />Global Gossip<br />Now Hear This<br />Storytelling Unleashed<br />Babble<br />Tracking the Truth<br />Operation Story<br />Tracking the Truth<br />Global Reflections<br />Every Life Tells/Has a Story<br />Daisy Chains<br />The Forget-me-knot Chronicles<br />Our Stories, Ourselves<br />She, the People<br />Ophelia's Tales<br />Ophelia's Dreams<br />Ophelia's Secrets<br />Wendy's Neverland<br />The Bridge to Neverland<br />Purple Nightshade Diaries<br />Under the Purple Nightshade<br />Cherry Pits<br />Cherries: Pits and Blossoms<br />Sugar and Spice<br />Silent Keepers<br />Hush<br />Muse<br />Ain't I a Woman<br />Marienetta<br />Celine<br />All about Eve<br />Just like a Woman<br />Hear her Sing<br />Her Secret Story<br />The Jill Project<br />In Her Words<br />Fertile Voices<br />Tracing Emily<br />The Amiga Project<br />Inheriting the secrets of women's lives<br />The inheritance of women's secret lives<br />The secret inheritance of women's lives<br />Heirlooms of stories by women and girls <br />The secret heirlooms of our fair sex (sexist context?)<br />The secret inheritance of fair young maidens (sexist context?) <br />Heirlooms of women's secret lives<br />Hidden heirlooms of women's lives<br />Heirlooms of Secret Lives:<br />Heirlooms of women and girls, Lost and Found<br />Secret heirlooms lost and found: revelations of women and girls<br />Buried heirlooms of women and girls: found throughout the world<br />Buried heirlooms unearthed by women and girls around the world<br />More and more<br />Beneath the Veil<br />Turn the Stone<br />Beneath the Stone<br />Hearing Athena<br />The Quiet & Wild Roads of Girls <br />Becoming Ourselves: Stories of Trailblazing Ladies<br />Growing Inside Out<br />Secrets Out Loud<br />The Life & Times of Girl Dreams<br />Limelight Moments<br />Girl Stories<br />Growing Up a Girl<br />Grown-up Girl Stories<br />The Dreams of Ladies<br />Trails We Blaze<br />Blazing Girls<br />What girls have to say<br />Boys Drool and Girls Rule<br />Go Girls<br />Queen for a day<br />Great yarns<br />The Complexity of Girls<br />Don't Know Much About Her-story<br />The Double X Files<br />The XX Files<br />The XX Project<br />XX no Ys<br /> XX<br />XX World<br />Table Fables<br />Table Talk<br />Chewing the Fat<br />Table Tales<br />Tales from the Table<br />From Tale to Table<br />The Daily Bread<br />New Wives Tales<br />Girl Talk<br />Brown Bag Talk<br />Women Catching Fire<br />Women Stir the Pots<br />Wise Maria’s Kitchen Tales<br />Shall We Gather in the Kitchen?<br />Cooking Up Her Story<br />Kitchen Wisdom<br />Stirring Up Stories<br />Women’s Kitchens, Women’s Lives<br />Growing Up in the Kitchen<br />In Memory’s Kitchen<br />Stories from the Soul Kitchen<br />Rattling Our Pots and Pans<br />Recipes for Memory<br />Speaking from the Hearth<br />Hidden Women<br />Girls in the Mist<br />Bivouac<br />The Two Muses<br />The Muse Project<br />The Calliope Chronicles<br />The Hidden Life of Girls<br />Not So Tall Tales<br />Short Tales<br />Girl Tales<br />The Girl Chronicles<br />Girl Talk<br />Mothers, Daughters, Sisters & Friends<br />Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something You<br />She said/She said<br />Speak for Yourself<br />Sister Speak<br />True Fables<br />True Tales<br />What You Said<br />Outskirts<br />I Have No Country<br />My Country<br />Sheroes<br />Untold Story Inside<br />Gadiola Light<br />Sprung From Memory<br />Her Voice<br />Thy Name is Woman<br />Pandora's Box<br />Pandora's Vox<br />All About Eve<br />Just Like a Woman<br />Hear Her Song<br />Her Secret Story<br />The Jill Project<br />In Her Words<br />Fertile Voices<br />Tracing Emily<br />The Amiga Project<br />True North<br />Period Piece<br />Girls Undone<br />The Girls Network<br />Being a Girl<br />The Sister Next Door<br />Girl Culture<br />Who's That Girl?<br />On Becoming Women<br />Finding Her Voice<br />This One's for the Girl<br />Girls World<br />Girl Life<br />Let's Hear it for the Girl<br />Girls, Girls, Girls<br />Just Like a Woman<br />GirlView<br />1001 Kitchen Secrets<br />Stories Rising<br />Cook Until Tender<br />Voices from the Kitchen<br />Kitchen Voices<br />Secret Servings<br />The Story Feast<br />The Story Banquet<br />Steeped in Story (Stories)<br />The Kitchen Table Project<br />1001 Ways to Cook a Secret<br />Sisters at the Table<br />Feast of Secrets<br />Story Sisters<br />Story Sirens<br />Scheherazade Tells All<br />Every Daughter Has (or Tells) a Story<br />Mother Tongue<br />The Global Muse<br />Project Muse<br />Sister to Sister<br />Secret Sisters<br />Sisters of Secrets<br />The Secret Lives of Global Girls<br />The Secret Truths of Global Girls<br />My Name is Scheherazade<br />What She Said<br />Girls Gone Candid<br />Real Girls to Real Women<br />Girls Just Wanna Grow Up<br />I Enjoy Being a Girl<br />Evolution--from Girl to Woman in Non-Easy Steps<br />Becoming Real--Girls Grow Up<br />More than Lipgloss--What It Means to Become a Woman in the Twenty-First Century<br />Womanhood Defined--Girls Coming of Age<br />The Unveiling Project<br />The Blossom Project<br />Amelia's Secret<br />Life on Venus<br />Womanhood Confidential<br />she will tell you: stories from girls & women around the world<br />WOMYN<br />Women Underground<br />A Girl’s Story<br />Women of Influence<br />She, Me, Her<br />Rock, Paper, Scissors<br />Women: Lost & Found<br />Secrets and Lives: The Incredible True Stories of Women and Girls<br />The Lost Girls: True Stories of Hidden Heroines and Everyday Warriors<br />The Secret Society of Hidden Heroines<br />Forgotten Girls Found<br />The World Girls Club: The Secret Society of Hidden Heroines and Underground Rituals<br /><br />Thank you to the following for their submissions: Deborah Pardes, Marsha Weiner, Eve Epstein, David Wilson Burnham, Kate Jessup, Mina Kim, Sara Blumenstein, Eliza Hotchkiss, Venus Brown, Kate Blood, Chris Altwegg, Michelle Ito, Jolene Ketzenberger, Mika Gans, Malaika Horne, Catherine Gund, Sasha Vasilyuk, Brooke Miller, Carla Eckels, Catherine Price, Mark Bell, Sheryl Kraft, Jan Bell, Emelie Gunnison, Liza Mock, Andi McDaniel, Summer Brenner, Julie Bien, Judy O'Shea, Amy Tan, Bettina Birch, Rachel Vandagriff, Catherine Dauer, Lisa Busch, Laurie Fabiano, Catherine Pantsios, Chris Strachwitz, Henry Cordova, Mark Bell, Larry Corwin, Jenny Tonks, Jennifer Morla, Tracy Alverson Euler, Ahri Golden, Catherine Stifter, Susan Freinkel, Allison Barlett, Denise Emanuel Clemen, Carolyn Krause, Karen H. Phillips, Catherine Haley Epstein, Mae Maracek, Robert Seibert, Eloise Melzer, Rae Umsted<br /><br />If you have a title idea you would like to submit, send it to kitchen [at] kitchensisters.orgThe Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-84664027284232416582009-12-17T14:02:00.000-08:002009-12-17T14:14:29.869-08:00The Futurist Cookbook<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia75343w0QBKY9oYBVItnXxxH62FgV2ztoiNA0nw-wukFvLhqomTp6OpxOUzhB6FkG0gN2q0eKQThN2s3dPWDRySOpN5luQSzmqAbrI19hQFnkBUMWUtSuJc7vozHLUWxmv7S5EUQBL08/s1600-h/futurist+cookbook.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 191px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia75343w0QBKY9oYBVItnXxxH62FgV2ztoiNA0nw-wukFvLhqomTp6OpxOUzhB6FkG0gN2q0eKQThN2s3dPWDRySOpN5luQSzmqAbrI19hQFnkBUMWUtSuJc7vozHLUWxmv7S5EUQBL08/s320/futurist+cookbook.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416330064121889506" border="0" /></a><br />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 <a href="http://kalw.org/">kalw.org</a>.<br /><br />The story, produced with Roman Mars takes a look at F.T. Marinetti's <span style="font-style: italic;">Futurist Cookbook</span>, first published in 1932, and how a group of contemporary chefs and artists are realigning "the movement's arguably fascist palate with a more sustainable approach to life."The Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-16877904693225209702009-12-15T10:58:00.000-08:002009-12-15T11:05:09.149-08:00Los Angeles Times Feature<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IkmZQfq8JYvHQqTzAl_fkz4PV0EvFgQOKvNheG9-hiGgACtufNYBtEWXsY8-moxubqljTCI84VKNtnlgWIPM6IBoG_DlaZmcOBaGUiuRkyX8aTZC5zsaSYAq3g3mJEj7cyLiOdtoV5w/s1600-h/50895673.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 217px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IkmZQfq8JYvHQqTzAl_fkz4PV0EvFgQOKvNheG9-hiGgACtufNYBtEWXsY8-moxubqljTCI84VKNtnlgWIPM6IBoG_DlaZmcOBaGUiuRkyX8aTZC5zsaSYAq3g3mJEj7cyLiOdtoV5w/s320/50895673.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415540944017282642" border="0" /></a><br />The Kitchen Sisters were featured in the <span style="font-style: italic;">Los Angeles Times</span> Food Section. Take a look <a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-kitchensisters9-2009dec09,0,554358.story">here</a>.The Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-61426079944220103352009-12-14T12:25:00.000-08:002009-12-14T12:42:19.667-08:00Help Support The Kitchen Sisters<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU7Kajz1EOssylMlzdVe4h-8u2KLBkgLGs5BtfQmDJZAP1185hsOjnqfSHUaWnz4PnQZXsCexQ_LjAV68Iv10XM8RozmnIYO6AVvXSWSI9_HM4ifO86YVmd4TNSXfSuOSvRuAueQATyXU/s1600-h/finalheader-copy-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 58px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU7Kajz1EOssylMlzdVe4h-8u2KLBkgLGs5BtfQmDJZAP1185hsOjnqfSHUaWnz4PnQZXsCexQ_LjAV68Iv10XM8RozmnIYO6AVvXSWSI9_HM4ifO86YVmd4TNSXfSuOSvRuAueQATyXU/s320/finalheader-copy-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415194505902445090" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" >"People need stories in hard times. They go to storytellers when times are hard like these." - Bruce Springsteen</span><br /><br /><style type="text/css"><br /><!-- body { background-color: #FFFFFF; margin-left: 20px; margin-top: 20px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; } a:link { text-decoration: none; } a:visited { text-decoration: none; } a:hover { text-decoration: underline; } a:active { text-decoration: none; } a { font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; color: #999900; font-family: Lucida Grande; } .style9 {color: #CC3300} body,td,th { font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 12px; color: #333333; } .style23 {color: #444444} .style30 { color: #C3351C; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; font-family: "Lucida Sans"; } .style31 { color: #666666; font-size: 11px; font-family: "Lucida Sans"; } .style34 {color: #444444; font-weight: bold; } .style37 { font-size: 11px; font-family: "Lucida Sans"; } .style40 {color: #666666} .style46 { color: #888888; font-size: 10px; } .style48 {font-size: 12px} .style49 {font-size: 10px} --><br /></style><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Dear Friends,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">We've always said our microphone is a stethoscope listening to the complicated heart of the nation. Recently, we sent out a call for stories to our email list for our upcoming NPR series about girls and the women they become, and the stories started pouring in:</span><br /><span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><blockquote style="font-family:lucida grande;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">“I received your email about your new series about girls around the world…who doesn’t have a story to be told? Take my Aunt Sally for example..." </span>“My friend Shakundala is a painter of women. Most of the women she paints are prostitutes in India…” <span style="font-weight: bold;">“You need to go to the all-female firehouse inside the California Women’s Prison and talk to the inmate/firefighters…”</span> “I've passed this call on to our 14 year old daughter. Thank you for making this series for her, for all of us.” <span style="font-weight: bold;">“My 3 sisters and I each adopted girls from Haiti and have developed a new family with the 22 girls that are their orphanage sisters. We invite you to Haiti to document these girls yourselves…”</span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Our new NPR series goes on air in March 2010 in honor of the 100th Anniversary of International Women's Day. We'll be opening up an NPR Phone Line on Morning Edition this January inviting listeners to call in with more stories and ideas. </span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;"><a href="https://npo.networkforgood.org/Donate/Donate.aspx?npoSubscriptionId=1000601">Donate now</a> to support our new international multimedia collaboration that will be heard by millions.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Your donation will directly support our work for the next year: creating on-air and online stories about women and girls around the world; developing a new series of international stories for Hidden Kitchens World; developing WHER: 1000 Beautiful Watts, the Broadway musical; producing the Cabrillo Music Festival multimedia project based on our women and girls series; teaching audio workshops (over 100 people took part last year) and mentoring young interns and emerging producers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">We are independent producers, not on NPR's payroll. No doubt you have heard of the steep cutbacks and layoffs at NPR. It is even harder to make it as an independent in these tight times. When our community supports us, granting agencies and corporations are far more likely to give significant funds to make our work possible.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">In a world that needs education, health care, housing, good food, justice and peace, it's hard to come asking for money for storytelling. But storytelling has the transformative power to illuminate and address serious issues in ways that seep into the soul, that find the common threads of our humanity, that stir people to action. That is our mission, and what we can accomplish with your support.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: lucida grande;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://npo.networkforgood.org/Donate/Donate.aspx?npoSubscriptionId=1000601"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 57px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhybwuoSU2HOi0fu-0mXGJBVifRdHaL24mgT7ga31h3o6_NYAg1qiFSpeKJDLUrbpeu2wzOV5fptS9iyjKtGxeMdp6ajoimJbhyphenhyphenNMJKPqIX9WfiHK78gllPxs_BCjG6oJ2k4WwiKMnYdNw/s320/Orange.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415192846967962242" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">No amount is too big. No amount is too small. Your donation is tax-deductible.</span><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Thank you for supporting our efforts to chronicle little-known stories of our community, culture and history—stories filled with possibility. Think of all we can do together in the coming year.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">We thank you for being part of The Kitchen Sisterhood.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Peace,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">Davia & Nikki</span><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">The Kitchen Sisters</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">To contribute by check please make payable to: The Kitchen Sisters Productions, 916 Kearny St., San Francisco, CA 94113</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;">The Kitchens Sisters Productions is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) media organization. All contributions are tax-deductible</span>The Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-68291534325723158422009-11-24T13:06:00.000-08:002009-11-24T16:21:29.384-08:00Aminatou HaidarThe 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 with on our upcoming series about girls around the world.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfo9xIXPKkpUuRmGLyGR7vOrqY60EmTQEgLLI8NYWx1OX5JTCJ7JpS11sirfHJX2W-36FKEACpt1QzIk30j87JThmu4YOQKLtqhaz4eFLx-ELqUXTpuqnfFLoCbAU9B5mIoZdIvi8rl5k/s1600/Haidar.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfo9xIXPKkpUuRmGLyGR7vOrqY60EmTQEgLLI8NYWx1OX5JTCJ7JpS11sirfHJX2W-36FKEACpt1QzIk30j87JThmu4YOQKLtqhaz4eFLx-ELqUXTpuqnfFLoCbAU9B5mIoZdIvi8rl5k/s320/Haidar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407780306233420882" border="0" /></a><br /><blockquote>Aminatou Haidar is a peaceful non-violent activist known as the Saharawi people's Gandhi. She is a former political prisoner, human rights defender and recipient of the 2009 Civil Courage Prize, for championing non-violent resistance and the 2008 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award.<br /><br />Today, November 24th, 2009 marks Aminatou’s 10th day on hunger strike, confined to Lanzarote Airport in Spain’s Canary Islands after Morocco forcefully expelled her from her home in the Western Sahara Occupied Territories on November 14th.<br /><br />She is in a wheelchair and doctors fear for her health as she suffers a stomach ulcer. Aminatou will not abandon her demonstration until the Moroccan and Spanish Governments allow her to return to her home in El Aaiun, the capital of the Saharawi Territories.<br /><br />The Western Sahara was the last Spanish colony, under Franco. It was abandoned by Spain in 1975, as the dictator lay dying and simultaneously invaded by Morocco, violating United Nations resolutions and international law.<br /><br />From that day to this, The Saharawi people have been waiting for a referendum on self-determination. They’ve been waiting for 24 years.<br /><br />Aminatou has tirelessly, peacefully demonstrated for the return of this land to her people via referendum and the creation of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic.<br /><br />Since 1975, the Saharawi people have lived with terror, torture and kidnappings in the occupied territories. In the 2000’s, secret prisons and torture houses and mass graves were discovered in the occupied territories, including El Aaiun. Hundreds more Saharawis have simply “disappeared.”<br /><br />When Morocco invaded, Algeria allowed the Saharawis that fled into Tindouf. The Refugee Camp that stands there now is home to 150,000 refugees, separated from their family members by The Moroccan Wall.<br /><br />This monstrous 2700km structure is the world’s longest wall after the Great Wall of China. It is heavily guarded by Moroccan troops and mines and has divided the Saharawi population for over 30 years. They live in two separate territories, in equally horrific conditions, united by their cause.<br /><br />So how come we’ve never heard about all this?<br /><br />Because nobody talks about it.<br /><br />The Moroccan government is “sensitive” about letting journalists in; The UN has had a “ceasefire”, in effect (ineffectively) since 1991. Not surprisingly there’s been a strategic reluctance from France or Spain to ruffle Morocco’s feathers.<br /><br />All Amanitou wants to do is go home and continue passively demonstrating for what she believes in. Please help her, and help us to help her by raising awareness and persuading the Spanish and Moroccan governments to let her go home to her family, her people and her cause.<br /><br />“I am very grateful to all the kindness and affection signs. I am receiving calls and messages from all over the world. I believe firmly that the Saharawi peaceful struggle is a fair cause and, as Gandhi did. I have absolute faith in non-violence for a better world and for a real peace.”<br />–Aminatou Haidar November 22nd, 2009.</blockquote>The Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-38434411611975523532009-10-23T12:05:00.000-07:002009-10-23T12:11:30.672-07:00A Call for Stories and a Contest<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmUbpeLUE7o0EW7HCqeXqQOSrngngzRzmHs04acS9JzU-ShwfQtcJwfPLoVim8ORygGqGwTZDn40LnwpjN8ZJlw1-dqqSh-RYqy3-xtvszpEgft0xH7PdeosUkeBLXKdB0Q1xW_zFFp90/s1600-h/callimage_800.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 80px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmUbpeLUE7o0EW7HCqeXqQOSrngngzRzmHs04acS9JzU-ShwfQtcJwfPLoVim8ORygGqGwTZDn40LnwpjN8ZJlw1-dqqSh-RYqy3-xtvszpEgft0xH7PdeosUkeBLXKdB0Q1xW_zFFp90/s320/callimage_800.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395875104079781266" border="0" /></a>The Kitchen Sisters are looking for stories and images and videos and writings.<br /><br />We're launching a new multimedia series on NPR this January, a listener collaboration in the tradition of Hidden Kitchens, Lost & Found Sound, and The Sonic Memorial Project. This one's about girls. Girls and the women they become. Stories of coming of age, rituals and rites of passage, secret identities. Of women who crossed a line, broke a trail, changed the tide.<br /><br />Small everyday stories, dramatic life and death stories. Stories from the middle of the city, to the middle of nowhere.<br /><br />What women should we know about? What girl's story should we tell? The famous, the infamous, the unknown, the untold. Women with public lives. Women with secret lives.<br /><br />Call our NPR Storyline at 202-408-9576 and tell us your story, or the story of someone we need to chronicle. Or email us at kitchen [at] kitchensisters.org<br /><br />And here's The Contest. We want you to help us name this new NPR series. We've called it The Secret Life of Girls Around the World, The Scheherazade Project, 1001 Stories, all names we like but can't go with for one reason or another. So, we turn to you to join our brainstorming sessions. You can call or email us with your suggestions. Whoever picks the title will be featured on our website, get the full line of Kitchen Sisters products and productions, a wild boar dinner with forager, Angelo Garro, and the deep satisfaction of hearing the title you came up with on NPR throughout the year.<br /><br />This soon-to-be-titled project will be full of richly layered sound and striking images, created by people around the world who help capture these stories of eccentric, trailblazing women and ground-breaking girls.<br /><br />Join The Kitchen Sisterhood and help launch this new multimedia collaboration.The Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-2830742764896712622009-10-19T13:48:00.000-07:002009-10-19T15:52:22.138-07:00Operation Frontline's Mobile Classroom Kitchen<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We met Catherine Luu of </span><a href="http://www.ccafs.org/operationfrontline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Operation Frontline</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> at our recent Hidden Kitchens event at the California Endowment in Los Angeles, "</span><a href="http://tcenews.calendow.org/pr/tce/vidcast-post.aspx?id=1651"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Who Glues Your Community Together through Food</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">?" We thought we'd share the information Catherine sent us about what she and Operation Frontline are up to in the Los Angeles area:</span><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Operation Frontline (OFL) is a national, volunteer-based program of Share Our Strength, which provides hands-on healthy cooking and nutrition education classes to low-income families. OFL trains and mobilizes local culinary and nutrition professionals to volunteer their time to lead these courses.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvWG2zKSDFKUU0FxrpK2YTaZK70tibhPaCrgav7sdtskwKhXjGxEV8znuDkVKjJSRNATD-a8PEIRt6tJInHE2fvxIBY_O79mH3s1klG60neFaZlf42JAMCRn3i1IlmWIqAzHp7-LJA6r4/s1600-h/zesting+lemons+for+fruit+kabobs.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvWG2zKSDFKUU0FxrpK2YTaZK70tibhPaCrgav7sdtskwKhXjGxEV8znuDkVKjJSRNATD-a8PEIRt6tJInHE2fvxIBY_O79mH3s1klG60neFaZlf42JAMCRn3i1IlmWIqAzHp7-LJA6r4/s320/zesting+lemons+for+fruit+kabobs.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394417713889090850" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br />Our class kitchen is “mobile” and travels to various cities throughout Lost Angeles—Glendale, Hollywood and Long Beach—offering courses to low-income adults, teens and children. This means that every week, I pack my car with groceries and several crates of cooking supplies and head to various agencies, churches, and clinics to get cooking! It has been a fascinating experience to gather participants from many different cultures and traditions into the same kitchen.<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv8mner3Afy3TQ0Wu51k7luUwWr_i641749DKQy_9iAbTLuFQJpJzxpCkImlwch6Rbz_zyggVvOJV6AWq5AKsCeSJBpaRshBQLOmNuU-XNda4PVBvXhCoG9gzqdXiXzjYCyB72cdoDzqQ/s1600-h/catherinewithgradclass.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv8mner3Afy3TQ0Wu51k7luUwWr_i641749DKQy_9iAbTLuFQJpJzxpCkImlwch6Rbz_zyggVvOJV6AWq5AKsCeSJBpaRshBQLOmNuU-XNda4PVBvXhCoG9gzqdXiXzjYCyB72cdoDzqQ/s320/catherinewithgradclass.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394418030641623922" border="0" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Since our official program launch in May, we have graduated six Operation Frontline classes, four for adults, and two for children ages 8-12. With the help of our team of volunteers, we have directly impacted over 75 families with our hands-on healthy cooking and nutrition classes. Our wonderful volunteers are the heart of our program, and our healthy cooking classes would not be possible without them.<br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We are always looking for new volunteers! Cooking supplies, groceries and monetary contributions also help in our efforts to reach more families throughout Los Angeles County.</span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">For information, you can visit our website </span><a href="http://www.ccafs.org/operationfrontline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">www.</span></a><a href="http://www.ccafs.org/operationfrontline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">ccafs.org/operationfrontline</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> or email Catherine.luu@ccafs.org.<br /></span></blockquote><blockquote></blockquote>The Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-40971820758362453482009-10-12T17:44:00.000-07:002009-10-13T14:36:02.346-07:00Two New Recording & Interviewing Workshops this Fall<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">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 want to acquire and hone their skills for an array of projects--radio, online storytelling, oral histories, audio slide shows, family histories, and other multimedia endeavors.<br /><br />We will cover miking techniques, sound gathering, use of archival audio, how to make interviewees comfortable, how to frame evocative questions that make for compelling storytelling, how to listen (which is harder than it looks), how to use interviews in conjunction with images, field recording techniques, recording equipment and more. The workshops are customized to fit the projects you are working on.<br /><br />People who attend come from radio, newspapers, photography, oral history, historical societies, farms, music, writing, libraries, web design and beyond. The groups are always lively and good contacts are made.<br /><br />The fee is $115. Of course, there will be a snack. The workshops are held in Francis Coppola's historic Zoetrope building in North Beach.<br /><br />If you, or someone you know is interested, email kitchen@kitchensisters.org and let us know which of the two workshops you would like to attend.<br /><br />See you there.</span>The Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-11031240022014653332009-10-06T10:57:00.000-07:002009-10-07T10:53:19.039-07:00Biscuit Tour 2009—Birmingham<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiii_hn0W6GB5X9_zQ1ltTsrsayruO59U1E5o3Wo32zAZlud0wqXWQoVb7l6x3E5CG-P8-A4mO2PhQimTr3KshnBkkp-Jnbda6amzEVhGzJMZtwgP7mG3sTL6yb2k7U6rzrhBn8LP-r1Bo/s1600-h/DSC_0327.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiii_hn0W6GB5X9_zQ1ltTsrsayruO59U1E5o3Wo32zAZlud0wqXWQoVb7l6x3E5CG-P8-A4mO2PhQimTr3KshnBkkp-Jnbda6amzEVhGzJMZtwgP7mG3sTL6yb2k7U6rzrhBn8LP-r1Bo/s320/DSC_0327.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389336325953496850" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />Just returned from Birmingham, Alabama where we presented an oral history and audio production workshop as part of the series </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.bsc.edu/dialogue/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Dialogue on Food</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"> at Birmingham-Southern College. During this year-long cross-disciplinary discussion, students will be reading, writing, and creating multi-media projects about what we eat and why. Opening the series was Frances Moore Lappe, author of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span">Diet for a Small Planet</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"> the book published in 1971 that is considered the "blueprint for eating with a small carbon footprint."</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEial4RWRugiBhayrf3CeQ8aetbQv432TboivuGIHU2b_JM3ZSkCH9nYKkZjbZVFyaF-fFFhLzqPmX-XSLTEZU2j-U0nsoMVPLRNLwOUc35kX-50f5eLsmiCA1EiYrL8UoTmOlphcZXrGOA/s320/DSC_0545.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389241157003120434" border="0" /><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Jones Valley Urban Farm</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-size:85%;">, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Birmingham</span></span><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;">Our visit coincided with an </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.outstandinginthefield.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Outstanding in the Field</span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"> dinner at <a href="http://www.jvuf.org/">Jones Valley Urban Farm</a>, an unlikely secret garden tucked into a square city block surrounded by freeways, railroad tracks and public housing in Birmingham. Jones Valley Urban Farm—three acres of arugula, sunflowers, hericot vert, waxy red peppers, sweat and possibility.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span">The farm grows food enough for an after-work farm stand during the summer,</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span">a food box CSA program,</span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span"> and fresh, seasonal vegetables for a </span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span">handful of local restaurants. It has </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span">community garden plots for the neighborhood and a program for school kids to plant, harvest and learn about</span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span">how gardens can change their community.</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 132px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjONPe8uNE4AhKhoM3SMiei3_Vt9KUfRRf5lqy4BJRb7Pc1bf2wapvZqJgbe8LGYxWjhjaqHenCdCbzzbYRr87rwJpDXbWFaVnP9iqLfsUv5yBg4uHCSbpxK5Z-DWsyb2RCbx-2aaiNhII/s400/DSC_0387.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389327005409521074" border="0" /></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The mastermind behind the Jones Valley project is Edwin Marty (left), an Alabama native, who studied organic farming at University of Calfornia Santa Cruz. All roads seem to lead back to <a href="http://casfs.ucsc.edu/">UCSC's visionary agroecology program</a>. It’s been going on for 40 years and has graduated an army of disciples who have become the base of today’s organic farming and food movement. Edwin had visions of moving to China to teach organic farming until a friend pointed out that his home state might be a better place to start. Alabama has the second highest rate of obesity in the country. (Luckily, there’s Mississippi who comes in ahead of us, Frank Stitt told us). </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Frank Stitt, chef and owner of Birmingham's <a href="http://www.highlandsbarandgrill.com/">Highlands Bar and Grill</a>, Bottega and Bottega Cafe, and Chez Fonfon, was the chef for our meal in the field. He worked with farmers throughout the region who provided the food. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Here's the menu:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;">McEwen & Sons deviled eggs (Helen & Frank McEwen)<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Jones Valley Urban Farm sweet and spicy peppers, roast eggplant craklin' cornbread & Snow's Bend snap peas</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;">Lady Pea Pilau with Snow's Bend butternut squash, Soul's Food Organic's cherry tomatoes (Linda & Michael Dean), okra & basil (David Snow and Margaret Ann Tooey)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;">Porchetta with Sequatchie Cove Farms pork (Bill & Miriam Keener), McEwen & Son's stone ground grits & JVUF collard greens & turnips</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;">Petals from the Past apple cake with rum creme angalise </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl2cuvsjY7PDau2blE2a8szN2HYSQfCROKpXnbWjQyY8Y5608oJA9Pn8UOQUISHxgYcWvOwDofRHuynz6dtuGkWzlH55jyPjuPIBs226xwPQN51ljPMWqfaSKgdK2J2L7VGkndxMPrRIw/s1600-h/DSC_0505.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl2cuvsjY7PDau2blE2a8szN2HYSQfCROKpXnbWjQyY8Y5608oJA9Pn8UOQUISHxgYcWvOwDofRHuynz6dtuGkWzlH55jyPjuPIBs226xwPQN51ljPMWqfaSKgdK2J2L7VGkndxMPrRIw/s320/DSC_0505.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389553029994664546" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Davia interviews Chef Frank Stitt and Farmer Bill Keener of Sequatchie Cove Organic Farm & Dairy, TN. Bill (far right) and his wife Miriam raised the pig roasted for our meal. </span><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span">Would love to hear about other urban farm projects and farm to table community dinners. What's happening in your part of the world?</span></span></p></div></div>The Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-30860161117660360782009-09-29T11:04:00.000-07:002009-09-29T12:06:40.909-07:00Tour of the La Selva Commune<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A few months back Vanessa Bertozzi, our colleague and friend who worked with us on <a href="http://www.sonicmemorial.org/">The Sonic Memorial Project</a>, wrote us with a "little bit of a crazy proposal." She's now working for <a href="http://www.etsy.com/">Etsy</a>, an online marketplace for things handmade, and wanted to know if we'd take part in a series they're creating for their blog about peoples' homes and collections. So videographer Eric Beug spent the day at La Selva with Kitchen Sister Silva creating this piece for their series "<a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/handmade-life/theres-no-place-like-here-communal-living-with-nikki-silva-5278/">There's No Place Like Here</a>."<br /><br /><embed src="http://blip.tv/play/oF6BopZbAA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="260" width="424"></embed><br /><br /></span>The Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-13023722628948569922009-07-28T10:52:00.000-07:002009-07-28T11:11:11.765-07:00July Notes from The Kitchen Sisterhood<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGxiemwIGwD6kidRf_b0FPc5ws-EFWjCDxTzxQWwpynDrkAoMHEAEGLKTIkIHPllhdL8nMKoufdy4JiYvr_f2BX_sL6PkhBlFONBjAjPpCxxqkZmVQaDrDcViGWoPhCvVbLemESz6YJIU/s1600-h/hands.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 315px; height: 222px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGxiemwIGwD6kidRf_b0FPc5ws-EFWjCDxTzxQWwpynDrkAoMHEAEGLKTIkIHPllhdL8nMKoufdy4JiYvr_f2BX_sL6PkhBlFONBjAjPpCxxqkZmVQaDrDcViGWoPhCvVbLemESz6YJIU/s400/hands.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363570469329573282" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dear Friends,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">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 want to know about.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keep the faith,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Kitchen Sisters</span></blockquote><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Archives we're visiting</span><br /><blockquote><a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/">Free Music Archive</a>. "It's not just free music, it's good music."<br /><br />Rock'n'Roll Public Library: A five-week free archival "civic endeavor" of The Clash's Mick Jones. "These 10,000 items are relics of the last century. A part of British musical history." London, July 16-August 25</blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">Books in our pile</span><br /><blockquote><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Plenty-Enough-Suck-Go-Around/dp/0806531037">Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around</a> by Cheryl Wagner<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Farm-City-Education-Urban-Farmer/dp/1594202214/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1248728926&sr=8-1">Farm City</a> by Novella Carpenter<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/I-5-Switchblade-Summer-Brenner/dp/1604860197/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1248728971&sr=8-1">I-5</a> by Summer Brenner<br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hunger-Freedom-Story-Nelson-Mandela/dp/1770095659/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1248729014&sr=8-1"><br />Hunger for Freedom: The Story of Food in the Life of Nelson Mandela</a> by Anna Trapido<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Elizabeth-Street-novel-based-events/dp/1442152613/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1248729036&sr=8-1">Elizabeth Street</a> by Laurie Fabiano<br /><br />How to Play the Harmonica: and Other Life Lessons by <a href="http://www.redroom.com/author/sam-barry">Sam Barry</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mirrors-Stories-Everyone-Eduardo-Galeano/dp/1568584237">Mirrors</a> by Eduardo Galeano<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Labor-Day-Novel-Joyce-Maynard/dp/0061843407/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1248729166&sr=8-1">Labor Day</a> by Joyce Maynard</blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">Events on our Calendar</span><br /><blockquote><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4145349">Puckerbrush Potluck</a>, Iowa State Fair, August 19<br /><br /><a href="http://www.eatrealfest.com/">Eat Real Festival</a> in downtown Oakland, August 28-30. A tribal gathering of taco trucks, hot dog stands, and mobile food vendors all using locally sourced sustainable ingredients.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cabrillomusic.org/">Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music</a>, Santa Cruz, CA, August 2-16. Marin Alsop conducts.</blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">Movies to see</span><br /><blockquote><a href="http://www.tetro.com/">Tetro</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.thecornerdocumentary.org/">Corner Store</a>: A work-in-progress documentary feature<br /><br />Away We Go, written by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida of <a href="http://www.826valencia.org/">826 Valencia </a></blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">Websites we're browsing</span><br /><blockquote><a href="http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/">Obama Foodorama</a><br /><br /><a href="http://thegreenhorns.wordpress.com/">Irresistible Fleet of Bicycles</a><br /><br /><a href="http://mappingmainstreet.org/">Mapping Main Street</a>: A collaborative documentary media project that creates a new map of the country through stories, photos and videos recorded on actual Main Streets.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.yeswecanfood.com/Yes,_We_Can_Food/home.html">Yes, We Can</a>: A community canning project</blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">Music on our turntable</span><br /><blockquote><a href="http://www.myspace.com/luracaboverde">Lura</a>, a singer from Portugal and Cape Verde<br /><br /><a href="http://www.orquestraimperial.com.br/">Orquestra Imperial</a> from Brazil. A Samba big band fronted by Caetano Veloso's son Moreno and his friends Alexandre Kassin and Domênico Lancelotti<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thecharliepooleproject.com/home.html">High Wide and Handsome</a>. Loudon Wainwright III's tribute to Charlie Poole<br /><br />Darling Just Walk by <a href="http://www.myspace.com/tessdunn">Tess Dunn</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dai-Lam-Linh/208697055301?v=wall&viewas=0">Dai Lam Linh</a>. Our friend Nguyen Qui Duc sent us this startling new music from Vietnam.</blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">Organizations we're tracking</span><br /><blockquote>Share Our Strength's <a href="http://strength.org/operation_frontline/">Operation Frontline</a> in Los Angeles<br /><br /><a href="http://www.crpe-ej.org/">Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment</a><br /><br /><a href="http://carecensf.org/en/health/?page=cuerpo">Carecen</a>: Central American Resource Center Cuerpo Sano/Healthy Bodies Program<br /><br /><a href="http://www.csufresno.edu/ccchhs/institutes_programs/CCROPP/index.shtml">CCROPP</a>: Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program<br /><br /><a href="http://www.musicnationalservice.org/">Music National Service Initiative</a>, a new social enterprise that supports and expands the use of music to meet important civic and social goals.</blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rest In Peace</span><br /><blockquote>Artist, David Ireland<br /><br />Activist, Luke Cole<br /><br />Actor, Luis Saguar</blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;">"People need stories in hard times. We’ve had an enormous moral, spiritual, and economic collapse. People go to storytellers when times are like that."</span> -Bruce Springsteen<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"The Kitchen Sisters have done some of the best radio stories ever broadcast"</span> -Ira Glass<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Radio producers we hope you'll support</span><br /><blockquote><a href="http://www.kitchensisters.org/support/">The Kitchen Sisters</a>. Click <a href="http://www.kitchensisters.org/support/">here</a> to donate.<br /></blockquote>The Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-59261417737304101842009-07-27T11:20:00.000-07:002009-07-27T14:36:05.603-07:00Mark Arax<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz80ufEVi_lX_NnNpBO8KPlZSeWYYZe6dDnP0_qKfDv-i6VBQxa74rJQ0UZXCfk6wUCrGSgGVjx9YVVZvRYOah9ONzq1G8cTwwQAie1oUFjVmo2zSqg0UpSbvKwNxWLhisa87o3g_UX8A/s1600-h/Mark_Arax_Cover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 217px; height: 327px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz80ufEVi_lX_NnNpBO8KPlZSeWYYZe6dDnP0_qKfDv-i6VBQxa74rJQ0UZXCfk6wUCrGSgGVjx9YVVZvRYOah9ONzq1G8cTwwQAie1oUFjVmo2zSqg0UpSbvKwNxWLhisa87o3g_UX8A/s400/Mark_Arax_Cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363213619605959970" border="0" /></a>For our most recent Hidden Kitchens piece, <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106061080">The Breadbasket Blues: A Central Valley Kitchen Story</a>, we interviewed former Los Angeles Times reporter Mark Arax, author of the new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/West-Dreamers-Believers-Builders-Killers/dp/1586483900">West of the West: Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State</a>. Take a listen to this web exclusive audio clip of Mark talking about family, food, and farms of the Central Valley: <a href="http://kitchensisters.org/audio/MarkArax.mp3">Listen</a>.The Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-75516276914142521892009-07-10T10:22:00.000-07:002009-07-10T10:25:43.701-07:00The Breadbasket Blues: A Central Valley Kitchen Story<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.kitchensisters.org/images/FresnoPostcard.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 328px; height: 210px;" src="http://www.kitchensisters.org/images/FresnoPostcard.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>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 some of the local kitchen visionaries grappling with these issues. The story looks at some of the unexpected factors that impact the health of a community: no sidewalks, no streetlights, drugs, gangs, wild dogs, lack of local grocery stores with fresh produce, and fast food. It was the wild dogs that got the Kitchen Sisters thinking Hidden Kitchens. Listen to the story <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106061080">here</a>.The Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-67479326109228137852009-06-18T11:45:00.000-07:002009-06-18T12:17:44.314-07:00America EatsDuring 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 Welty, Saul Bellow, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Zora Neale Hurston, along with artists, anthropologists, librarians, and housewives fanned across the country to gather "an account of group eating as an important American social institution; its part in development of American cookery as an authentic art and the preservation of that art in the face of mass production of foodstuffs...." <br /><br />The Kitchen Sisters chronicled this vast archive of American eating in the Hidden Kitchens series, in a story called "<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4176589">America Eats</a>" that includes an interview with Mark Kurlansky, author of the new and fascinating book, "<a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781594488658">Food of a Younger Land</a>: A Portrait of American Food--before the national highway system, before chain restaurants and before frozen food, when the nation's food was seasonal, regional, and traditional--from the lost WPA files." <br /><br />You can listen to our story, "America Eats," <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4176589">here</a>.The Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-48107243355767262052009-06-04T10:52:00.000-07:002009-06-04T10:54:45.439-07:00Kitchen Sisters Interviewing & Recording WorkshopDavia is conducting a 3-hour basic recording and interviewing workshop on Thursday, June 25 at 10:00 AM in San Francisco.<br /><br />It is intended not just for people in radio, but those interested in oral history and others who would like to learn interviewing skills for the projects that they do. We will cover miking technique, sound gathering, use of archival audio, how to make interviewees comfortable, how to frame your questions, and how to listen (which is harder than it looks).<br /><br />The fee is $100. Of course, there will be a snack.<br /><br />If you'd like to attend or would like more information, please send us an email at kitchen@kitchensisters.orgThe Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-27514910361591819992009-05-14T13:32:00.000-07:002009-05-14T13:41:37.965-07:00News from Salt Part 5, from Alix Blair, Guest BloggerHello 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.<br />Next Thursday is our show of student work, Friday's the "graduation".<br />I am and will be more so, a zombie-- which is so painfully when it's the most beautiful sunshine summer weather outside.<br />I will emerge like some mole creature once all this radio work is fully-edited and bounced to an mp3 and done.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_-PnjEW2XcXBPROiFi28z8B647mQLfM9B8FdzpYpZymliRGJ0qLyLP0fv37R0DZ2grQxuKiadValn_z0PvQphEpJYmqDUwv6E_DxSIHneb_Q_488iFAmfHRksQ_r9m6Zb-NgszCKdBYA/s1600-h/IMG_0933.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_-PnjEW2XcXBPROiFi28z8B647mQLfM9B8FdzpYpZymliRGJ0qLyLP0fv37R0DZ2grQxuKiadValn_z0PvQphEpJYmqDUwv6E_DxSIHneb_Q_488iFAmfHRksQ_r9m6Zb-NgszCKdBYA/s400/IMG_0933.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335782007696534930" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">May in Maine for those who get to go outside<br /></span></div>The Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2162914819060148174.post-57554154044984229142009-05-01T14:11:00.000-07:002009-05-01T15:52:31.155-07:00Spring Notes from The Kitchen Sisterhood<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvTj_lMRbL7dBS0U4z6Dd_GWz7JqDxJ55-FwjIT9ZK-vkxx2ykn8dprl9aiUry3xNbvet9agY8EYZ3PtapVATzW6GEwfi_DvHbzo0d18MQ0hMl1F5Nhqq6zLS-r-qjL1ec-mwEbXpDa2U/s1600-h/burqa-band-300.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvTj_lMRbL7dBS0U4z6Dd_GWz7JqDxJ55-FwjIT9ZK-vkxx2ykn8dprl9aiUry3xNbvet9agY8EYZ3PtapVATzW6GEwfi_DvHbzo0d18MQ0hMl1F5Nhqq6zLS-r-qjL1ec-mwEbXpDa2U/s400/burqa-band-300.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330971194477306066" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dear Friends,</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Here are some projects and endeavors that have caught our attention and we want to pass along.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keep it rolling,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Kitchen Sisters</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Archives we're trolling</span><br /><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ealysons/library.html"></a><blockquote><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ealysons/library.html">Prelinger Library</a>: Outsider librarians, Rick & Megan Prelinger have a mission to convene community around a collection. It is a free offering, an installation, a workshop, an extension of their living room, that seeks to foster discovery and serendipity and to experiment with new forms of access to information.<br /><br />Southern Folklife Collection & Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Books/Articles we're reading</span><br /><blockquote>Hawaiian Son: The Life and Music of Eddie Kamae by <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/24/BAAS176DIN.DTL">James Houston</a><br /><br />Hillbilly Music: Source and Symbol by <a href="http://www.dailyyonder.com/archie-green-1917-2009-called-labor/2009/03/24/2015">Archie Green</a><br /><br />West of the West: Dreamers, Believers, Builders and Killers in the Golden State by Mark Arax<br /><br />The Food of a Younger Land by Mark Kurlansky. A portrait of American food--before the national highway system, before chain restaurants and before frozen food, when the nation's food was seasonal, regional, and traditional--from the lost WPA files.<br /><br />Mark Danner's articles on torture in <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/authors/285">The New York Review of Books</a> and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/24/AR2009042402654.html">The Washington Post</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/588512">Hidden Kitchens Texas</a> by The Kitchen Sisters</blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Manifestos & Presentations</span><br /><blockquote>Peter Sellars: <a href="http://montalvoarts.org/agency/peter_sellars/">Art in the Age of Obama</a><br /><br /><a href="http://forageoaklandmanifesto.blogspot.com/">Forage Oakland</a><br /><br /><a href="http://eat-ins.org/howto/manifesto.html">The Eat-In Manifesto</a></blockquote><a href="http://eat-ins.org/howto/manifesto.html"></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Movies we're watching</span><br /><a href="http://thegardenmovie.com/"></a><blockquote><a href="http://thegardenmovie.com/">The Garden</a>. The story of the 14-acre community garden in South Central Los Angeles, started as a form of healing after the 1992 LA riots. An urban farm in one of the country's most blighted neighborhoods. The film chroncles the fight to save this 14-acre community oasis from development.<br /><br /><a href="http://ferlinghettifilm.com/">Ferlinghetti</a>. A documentary portrait of poet and City Lights co-founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti.<br /><br />A Woman Under the Influence by John Cassavetes. A newly restored print by the Film Foundation and UCLA has just been completed.<br /><br /><a href="http://festival.sundance.org/2009/film_events/films/crude">Crude</a>. A new documentary about the shifting course of a lawsuit by 30,000 Ecuadoreans against Chevron over contaminated waters of the Amazon.</blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Music on our turntable</span><br /><blockquote><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpH83Vi7b9E&feature=related">The Burka Band</a>. We are chronicling this story for our upcoming series exploring the secret life of girls around the world.<br /><br />Chicano Zen by <a href="http://www.charangacakewalk.com/">Charanga Cakewalk</a></blockquote><a href="http://www.charangacakewalk.com/"></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Events</span><br /><blockquote>May 8 - The Kitchen Sisters at the Food Matters series of <a href="http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/foodmatters.html">Interdisciplinary Humanitaries Center </a>at UC Santa Barbara. 4 PM.<br /><br />May 12 - "Who Glues Your Community Together Through Food?" A Night of California Hidden Kitchens. The Kitchen Sisters and guests at the California Endowment in Downtown LA, including food from Homegirl Cafe, Let's Be Frank hot dog cart, and the Kogi Korean BBQ truck. <a href="http://tcecontacts.calendow.org/reaction/RSGenPage.asp?RSID=8C8409EDCBEF1C82CF2F1B31CE0D0B9A84780C27C1F91232A9FA0">RSVP here</a>.</blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Kitchen Sisters Manifesto</span>: We are a non-profit, independent, public radio collaboration dedicated to creating documentaries that chronicle the untold stories of American culture and tradition, to keeping the nation's airwaves vibrant, imaginative and accessible, and to training young people and others with a passion to be involved in public radio.. You can help support our work with a tax-deductible contribution: <a href="http://www.kitchensisters.org/support">www.kitchensisters.org/support</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><br /></div></div>The Kitchen Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11009705725882829628noreply@blogger.com0