Hidden Kitchen host Frances McDormand leads us through this rich international collection of stories of land, community and food. Actor Gael Garcia Bernal takes us to his grandmother's Sinoloa kitchen in Mexico. And Salman Rushdie takes us to Chocolate Town. Werner Herzog eats his shoe and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti gives us his recipe for happiness along with a new hour of Kitchen Sisters stories that travel the globe.
From the organic olive groves and vineyards being grown on confiscated Mafia land in Sicily to secret night clubs embedded in Soviet dissident kitchens. From tales of cooking dogs in Medieval England to the little-known tale of Agricultural Explorers "The Indiana Jones of the Plant World" who introduced exotic dates from the Middle East to the Coachella Valley. And in France and Thomas Jefferson's Monticello we go underground into the world of wine, war and counterfeiting.
Produced by The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) in collaboration with listeners around the world. Stories rich in food, family, music, and sound. A new hour special perfect for the Fall and the holidays. A little audio egg nog. Perfect also for cold nights of Winter, balmy days of Spring and the sweltering heat of Summer when radios are blasting.
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About The Kitchen Sisters:
The Kitchen Sisters, Peabody Award winning producers, Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva, have been creating media projects together for over 25 years. They are the producers of the du-Pont Award-winning NPR series, Hidden Kitchens, The Hidden World of Girls, Lost & Found Sound, The Sonic Memorial Project, and The Making Of... Nikki and Davia are also the authors of the James Beard-nominated, Hidden Kitchens: Stories, Recipes and More from NPR's Kitchen Sisters, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and have produced 3 Audie-Award winning CD compilation. Their Lost & Found Sound website received a Webby Award and their collaborative interactive website sonicmemorial.org received a Peabody Award. The Kitchen Sisters teach at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Most recently, they have joined the Radiotopia collective and have launched a new Podcast ~ Fugitive Waves~. Along with Hidden Kitchens World, they are currently working on a Broadway musical based on their story WHER: 1000 Beautiful Watts, the story of the first all-girl radio station in the nation.
The Hidden Kitchens series has had a powerful resonance with audiences across the United States, and across the world. The series has been awarded the du-Pont-Columbia Award and was nominated for three James Beard Awards. In its first season NPR's Hidden Kitchens Listener Hotline received 2,789 minutes of messages from people with stories to share from around the world. Five years later, the stories keep pouring in. Live Hidden Kitchen events have been held in England, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Alabama, and across the United States and at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington DC.
