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KUT 90.5 FM Austin and NPR present Hidden Kitchens Texas, a new hour-long special produced by the Peabody Award-winning Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva).
Host, Willie Nelson, Dallas-born actress Robin Wright Penn, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Los Lonely Boys, along with some extraordinary tellers, take us across The Lone Star State in this new special. Stories of cowboy kitchens, cotton picker's kitchens, oil barrel barbeques, ice houses, chili queens, the birth of the Frito, the birth of the 7-Eleven, the birth of the Slurpee, the birth of the frozen Margarita, the first barbeque pit on the moon, all laced with a soulful array of Texas music. Intimate, historic, offbeat, and wild. So many issues we all share play out in these Texas kitchen stories--oil, land, food, family, elders, war, work, immigration--issues that touch the lives of listeners everywhere.
Also in the Hidden Kitchens series
Hidden Kitchen Mama
(00:08:23)
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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.
The Birth of the Frito
(00:07:19)
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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 another Texas hidden kitchen story.
Weenie Royale; The Impact of the Internment on Japanese Cooking in America
(00:09:18)
From: The Kitchen Sisters
After Pearl Harbor, about 120,000 Japanese Americans were uprooted and forced to live for years in remote federal camps around the country. The upheaval of internment changed ...
Sugar in the Milk: A Parsi Kitchen Story
(00:08:56)
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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-of-a-kind cook, a Parsi ...
Broncos & Boudin: The Angola Prison Rodeo
(00:07:26)
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Hidden Kitchens travels to the Louisiana State Penitentiary and the world of unexpected, below-the-radar, down-home convict cooking at the Angola Prison Rodeo. The event, ...
The Sheepherder's Ball: Hidden Basque Kitchens
(00:08:10)
From: The Kitchen Sisters
In the last century, Basque people fleeing Francisco Franco's dictatorship flocked to America, herding sheep across the West. "Hidden Kitchens" explores the world of Basque ...
Garden Allotments: A London Kitchen Vision
(00:06:49)
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Hidden Kitchens travels to London to explore the old and endangered tradition of Allotments, urban communal garden plots wedged in between buildings, planted in abandoned ...
The Birth of Rice-A-Roni
(00:07:43)
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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 of "The San Francisco Treat."
Black Chefs, White House
(00:06:55)
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Hidden Kitchens explores the food of the founding fathers through the stories of Hercules and James Hemings, enslaved chefs of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, and ...
Mozart's Hidden Kitchen & The Tables of New Crowned Hope
(00:06:55)
From: The Kitchen Sisters
The Kitchen Sisters take us to Vienna to Mozart's Hidden Kitchen and The Tables of New Crowned Hope
Piece Description
KUT 90.5 FM Austin and NPR present Hidden Kitchens Texas, a new hour-long special produced by the Peabody Award-winning Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva). Host, Willie Nelson, Dallas-born actress Robin Wright Penn, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Los Lonely Boys, along with some extraordinary tellers, take us across The Lone Star State in this new special. Stories of cowboy kitchens, cotton picker's kitchens, oil barrel barbeques, ice houses, chili queens, the birth of the Frito, the birth of the 7-Eleven, the birth of the Slurpee, the birth of the frozen Margarita, the first barbeque pit on the moon, all laced with a soulful array of Texas music. Intimate, historic, offbeat, and wild. So many issues we all share play out in these Texas kitchen stories--oil, land, food, family, elders, war, work, immigration--issues that touch the lives of listeners everywhere.





Trina Sargalski
Posted on December 30, 2007 at 05:02 PM | Permalink
Review of Hidden Kitchens Texas
Amazing--I love how the Kitchen Sisters seamlessly blend words, sounds and music to create these amazing mental images. I listen to these stories over and over and they are still fascinating. I hope the Kitchen Sisters keep up this work and maybe do some other specials like this one.