Ranked #1
67 – The Hidden World of Girls with Tina Fey
67 – The Hidden World of Girls with Tina Fey
Stories from The Hidden World of Girls with host Tina Fey: Nigerian writer Chris Abani tells about his English-born moth... Read more
27 Mar 2017
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25mins
Ranked #2
123- San Francisco—Stories from the Model City, Part Three
123- San Francisco—Stories from the Model City, Part Three
In the late 1930s, during the depths of the Depression, 300 craftspeople came together for two years to build an enormou... Read more
27 Aug 2019
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25mins
Ranked #3
92 - The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel
92 - The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel
In the early 1970’s, radio producer and author Studs Terkel wrote a book called Working. He went around the country wi... Read more
7 May 2018
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37mins
Ranked #4
79 – Pati’s Mexican Jewish Table
79 – Pati’s Mexican Jewish Table
A walk through Oaxaca’s Ethnobotanical Garden with chef and cookbook author Pati Jinich, host of the Emmy and James Bear... Read more
25 Sep 2017
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18mins
Ranked #5
122 - Burning Man — Archiving the Ephemeral
122 - Burning Man — Archiving the Ephemeral
"Hello Kitchen Sisters, I am a rogue archivist, the archivist for Burning Man. Come to Burning Man headquarters and I’l... Read more
21 Aug 2019
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18mins
Ranked #6
3 – Eel Pie Island
3 – Eel Pie Island
The Kitchen Sisters take us to a little-known, hidden corner of London — to Eel Pie Island, a tiny slice of land in the... Read more
12 Apr 2014
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18mins
Ranked #7
4 – The French Manicure – The Long Shadow of Shirley Temple
4 – The French Manicure – The Long Shadow of Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple died on February 10. 2014. Watching the parade of clips from her 1930s movies on TV that night brought ba... Read more
15 May 2014
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22mins
Ranked #8
96 - Cry Me a River — Keepers of the Environment
96 - Cry Me a River — Keepers of the Environment
The dramatic stories of three pioneering “Keepers” and environmental activists—Ken Sleight, Katie Lee, and Mark Dubois a... Read more
9 Jul 2018
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33mins
Ranked #9
95 - Give Space A Chance: Gastrodiplomacy in Orbit
95 - Give Space A Chance: Gastrodiplomacy in Orbit
Russians preparing dinner for Americans in space? Sounds good to us. There’s been a lot of jabber these days about creat... Read more
25 Jun 2018
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19mins
Ranked #10
93 - Prince and the Technician
93 - Prince and the Technician
In 1983 Prince hired LA sound technician, Susan Rogers, one of the few women in the industry, to move to Minneapolis and... Read more
22 May 2018
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24mins
Ranked #11
94 - Tequila Chamber of Commerce & The Birth of the Frozen Margarita
94 - Tequila Chamber of Commerce & The Birth of the Frozen Margarita
The Agave Goddess with 200 breasts; jimadors stripping lethal thorny leaves off agaves; farmers battling cambio climat... Read more
12 Jun 2018
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13mins
Ranked #12
108 - The Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System
108 - The Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System
Melvil Dewey, the father of library science and the inventor of the most popular library classification system in the wo... Read more
22 Jan 2019
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22mins
Ranked #13
138 - The Keepers - Archive Fever, with host Frances McDormand
138 - The Keepers - Archive Fever, with host Frances McDormand
The Keepers, from The Kitchen Sisters and PRX with host, Academy Award-winning actress Frances McDormand. Stories of act... Read more
24 Mar 2020
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55mins
Ranked #14
36 – Tupperware
36 – Tupperware
“Somewhere in the world there’s a Tupperware Party starting every 10 seconds.” And we’re going to one with The Kitchen S... Read more
8 Dec 2015
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18mins
Ranked #15
133 - Theaster Gates — Keeping the South Side
133 - Theaster Gates — Keeping the South Side
The Archive House, The Listening House, The Stony Island Arts Bank, The Dorchester Projects. Theaster Gates is a keeper ... Read more
14 Jan 2020
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14mins
Ranked #16
107 - William Ferris—Keeper of Southern Folklife
107 - William Ferris—Keeper of Southern Folklife
Folklorist and Professor Bill Ferris, a Grammy nominee this year for his "Voices of Mississippi" 3 CD Box set, has commi... Read more
8 Jan 2019
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32mins
Ranked #17
106 - 21 Collections—Every Object has a Story
106 - 21 Collections—Every Object has a Story
Paper airplanes, photographs of men in rows, birds nests, gay bar matchbooks, dolls hats —an untraditional take on what... Read more
11 Dec 2018
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26mins
Ranked #18
50 – An Unexpected Kitchen: The George Foreman Grill
50 – An Unexpected Kitchen: The George Foreman Grill
Sometimes life without a kitchen leads to the most unexpected hidden kitchen of all—the George Foreman Grill. How immigr... Read more
12 Jul 2016
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20mins
Ranked #19
12 – The Nights of Edith Piaf
12 – The Nights of Edith Piaf
She rose every day at dusk and rehearsed, performed, ate and drank until dawn. Then slept all day, woke up and began to ... Read more
16 Dec 2014
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29mins
Ranked #20
100 - The Keepers: Archiving the Underground—The Hip Hop Archive
100 - The Keepers: Archiving the Underground—The Hip Hop Archive
This is the first episode in our new series THE KEEPERS—stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, coll... Read more
5 Sep 2018
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32mins