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Tuesday, April 15: The Kitchen Sisters: A Night of Radio, Reading, and Hidden Kitchens

Solano County Library Foundation’s National Library Week Program
Vacaville Performing Arts Center in Vacaville, 7-9 PM
To order tickets call the VPAT Box Office at 707-449-6217 or go to www.vpat.net.
For more information visit: www.solanolibraryfoundation.org

Thursday Morning, April 17: The Angola Rodeo: A Prison Kitchen Vision
Hidden Kitchens on NPR's Morning Edition

Saturday, April 26: Kitchen Sisters Radio Workshop in Dublin, Ireland
Hosted by the Association of Irish Independent Radio Producers
www.radioproducers.ie

Thursday Evening, May 1: Kitchen Sisters Radio Workshop in London
Hosted by Alan Hall and Falling Tree Productions
Location to be announced

Tuesday, May 6: Eleanor Coppola in conversation with Davia Nelson about her new book, Notes on a Life
Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, 6 PM
http://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/auto_choose_ga.asp?area=1

Sunday, June 1: Third Coast Festival Listening Room with The Kitchen Sisters
Café du Nord, San Francisco

Sunday, June 8: Hidden Kitchens Texas nominated for James Beard Award
James Beard Foundation Award Ceremony
Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York

October 9-11: The Kitchen Sisters Favorite Things Session
Third Coast Festival Conference
Hotel Orington in Evanston, Il.
The Kitchen Sisters are closing the conference with the annual Favorite Things session

We hope you can join us somewhere along the route.

 
 
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January 31, 2008

Hidden Kitchens Story #25
Kibbe at the Crossroads: Lebanese Cooking in the Mississippi Delta


December 20, 2007
Hidden Kitchens Story #24 "Weenie Royale" - On NPR's Morning Edition airs on NPR's Morning Edition.

December 7, 2007
Yale University’s Program in Agrarian Studies colloquium series

November 2007

Nov. 15, 2007
Julia Child Day - Kitchen Sisters to Serve Up Heaping Helping of Stories
The Kitchen Sisters will visit Smith on Thursday, Nov. 15, as part of the college’s fourth annual Julia Child Day. They will give a highly interactive, multimedia presentation titled “How Communities Come Together Through Food” beginning at 4:15 p.m. in the Campus Center Carroll Room. A gala reception will follow. Recipes of Julia Child and the Kitchen Sisters will be featured during the day at the Campus Center Café, the Smith College Club for lunch, and at the reception and in residence dining rooms. What the Kitchen Sisters dish out on their award-winning National Public Radio show Hidden Kitchens doesn’t only concern food and its preparation. They talk about food, to be sure. But they also talk about community and how people interact, share their lives and grow together. They tell inspiring stories of struggle and triumph, about women, children and people overcoming daunting odds to succeed.
Details Smith College web site


November 14, 2007
NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Education public forum on storytelling
Join us for an inspired and inspiring evening with the Kitchen Sisters , the renowned creators of the NPR series Lost and Found Sound, Sonic Memorial Project, and Hidden Kitchens. Winner of two Peabody Awards and a duPont-Columbia Award for their work, the Kitchen Sisters bring together independent producers, artists, writers, archivists, and public radio listeners throughout the country to create richly layered, highly produced, intimate and provocative radio documentaries that chronicle untold stories of American culture and traditions. Their series, Hidden Kitchens, heard on Morning Edition, explores the world of secret, unexpected, below the radar cooking across America—how communities come together through food.
7PM-9PM Eisner and Lubin Auditorium / Kimmel Center for University Life
60 Washington Square South, 4th Floor

November 2-4, 2007 Texas Festival of Books, Austin Texas

October 24-28, 2007 Southern Foodways Alliance 10th Annual Symposium.

May 2007

The Contemporary Issues Series - a periodic exploration by leading experts of critical topics shaping contemporary life, culture and community.
Thursday, May 31, 7PM
Jackson Theater at Sonoma Country Day School, Santa Rosa, CA


A stellar lineup of Sonoma County's most notable kitchen denizens join The Kitchen Sisters for a night of radio, readings and some local hidden kitchen cooking.

KRCB's Robin Pressman;Jimtown Store's Carrie Brown: DaVero's Colleen McGlynn; Tierra Vegetables' Lee James; and chefs Evelyn Cheatham, Mark Malicki and special Slow Food guests with tales of Terra Madres along with chef Max La Riviere-Hedrick and New Langton Art Director Sandra Percival. Guests wll enjoy spicy tastes from the Salsitas, the Secrets of Salsa Project women and hidden kitchen cooking featuring chef Mateo Granados, accompanied by local DaVero wines and Dempsey's microbrew.

$10 in advance / $15 at the door / purchase tickets online at www.scdsevents.org
Jackson Theater at Sonoma Country Day School / 4400 Day School Place, Santa Rosa / 707.284.3200»



Commonwealth Club - San Francisco
Wednesday, April 11, 5 PM
Davia Nelson in conversation with Marion Nestle at the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco. website » Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University currently at UC Berkeley. Nestle has made a career of letting people know things the food industry often does its best to obscure. Her new book, "What to Eat" starts with a question that never used to be so hard to answer: What are we supposed to be eating?


Voicings 2007: Frontlines Women Documentary Artists
Paramount Theatre in St. Cloud State University, MN
Wednesday, April 18, 7 PM

Voicings 2007, a project directed by SCSU mass communications assistant professor Mark Eden, portrays the art and celebration of language. This is the third year Voicings has brought events to the St. Cloud area.

NPR's Peabody award-winning Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva), will be speaking about their national Public Radio series "Lost and Found Sound" and "The Sonic Memorial Project." The Sisters will be speaking at 7 p.m. Wednesday night.

Both of these events are free and open to the public.For more information about Voicing 2007, "FRONTLINES: Women Documentary Artists," go to St. Cloud Voicings website

» St. Cloud Times : Voicings: The Kitchen Sisters By Adam Hammer

» Voicings 2007 brings artists from film, radio

March 2007

The Hammer Museum - Los Angeles
Thursday, March 29, 8 - 10PM
A Night of Radio, Readings, Guest Stars & Some Secret, Below-the-radar,
Los Angeles hidden kitchens stories.

The Sisters come to The Hammer to play their stories from their many series - Lost & Found Sound, The Sonic Memorial and Hidden Kitchens and share tales of their sonic adventures.
With special guests— NPR’s Renée Montagne, Songwriter & Producer Van Dyke Parks
Actor/comedian/All-Around Great Guy Taylor Negron and Author/Screenwriter/TV Writer/Playwright/All-Around Great Guy Too Alan Zweibel.

We’re still collecting LA hidden kitchen stories. Got one? Who’s cooking on your street corner, in your family? Who glues your community together through food? What LA cooking traditions do we need to know about? The event is the 29th, so point us towards your unusual, little known and clandestine kitchens soon. Send us an email with your story

Hammer Museum - Billy Wilder Theatre
10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles / Free admission

January 2007


Hidden Kitchens Story #21 on NPR's Morning Edition
- Friday, January 26
The Tables of New Crowned Hope: Mozart's Hidden Kitchens
For the past year Austria has been Mozart-crazy, commemorating his 250th birthday with every kind of celebration, including “New Crowned Hope”, a month-long festival produced by theater director Peter Sellars, It isn’t every day an arts festival presents a new John Adams opera, an avant garde Maori dance troupe, Ethopian mud dome installations, Alice Waters and lunch ladies from across Europe.  On the eve of his 251st birthday, The Kitchen Sisters take us to Vienna, to Mozart's Hidden Kitchen and The Tables of New Crowned Hope.»»listen

KQED 88.5 FM
Thursday, January 11, 8 PM
Tune into the broadcast of Davia & Nikki on stage at Stanford University's Aurora Forum as they talk about their radio work over the last 25 years. In conversation with Alan Acosta on KQED FM.

December 2006


Aurora Forum at Stanford University
Thursday, December 7, 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.Free
Aurora Forum - An Evening with The Kitchen Sisters at Stanford University
Moderator - Alan Acosta
The Kitchen Sisters, a night of Hidden Kitchens radio, readings and conversation. info >>
Stanford University, Kresge Auditorium, 555 Nathan Abott Way, Palo Alto, Ca.

West Coast Live Radio Broadcast
The Kitchen Sisters join host Sedge Thomson
Saturday, December 9, broadcastlive 10 am - 12pm
The Empire Plush Room, York Hotel, San Francisco
940 Sutter between Leavenworth & Hyde

Linden Tree
Wednesday, December 13,2006 7:00 (presentation starts at 8:00
Sagan Piechota Architecture
315 Linden Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 (Hayes Valley)

KAZU Radio Salon Series
Thursday, December 14, 2006 6:00-8:00 PM
A Hidden Kitchens presentation for KAZU's annual fundraiser at the Monterey Museum of Art.
An evening of radio, reading and some fine hidden kitchens cooking.


October 2006


City Lights Bookstore

Wednesday,October 11, 7:00 pm
261 Columbus Avenue,  San Francisco 

Celebrate the release of Hidden Kitchens in Paperback with The Kitchen Sisters and friends --
Lou the Glue, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Armistead Maupin, Randy Thom, Janete and her Brazilian cabyard kitchen, and King and his Freelines.

San Francisco Public Library

Thursday, October 12,  6:30 pm
100 Larkin St., San Francisco

This I Believe Book Release Event. Jay Allison, Curator of the Quest for Sound & Hidden Kitchens, and now Curator of the NPR series, This I Believe, comes to San Francisco on a nationwide book tour to celebrate the release of the powerful book inspired by the series. The Kitchen Sisters join Jay, and Armistead Maupin, SF Chronicle Editor, Phil Bronstein and an array of guest readers to present this project that Edward R. Murrow spearheaded in the 1950's and has come to life again.

Open Studios at the Kitchen Commune
Saturday & Sunday, October 7 & 8 and October 14 & 15 — 11-6PM

Kitchen Brother Charles Prentiss (Nikki's husband)is taking part in Santa Cruz County's Open Studios -- folks are invited out to their commune in La Selva Beach to take a look at his fabulous artwork and tour The Kitchen Sisters' studio south.

Dallas Women's Club
Thursday, October 19,  6:30 pm
Dinner and Presentation - Hilton Dallas/Park Cities Hotel, 5954 Luther Lane, Dallas

A radio restrospecive. The Kitchen Sisters do Dallas. A night of radio, readings and stories --
from the tale  of the first all girl radio station in the nation to the saga of the Chili Queens of
San Antonio. and the ice houses of Texas. The birth of the 7-11, the birth of the Slurpee, the birth of the Frozen Margarita and the birth of the Frito — all conceived in Dallas.

Illy Lounge at Borders Books - The Taste of Beauty
Sunday, October 1, 11:30 - 12:30
Time Warner Center, 2nd floor, 10 Columbus Circle
Join us for a secret Sunday neighborhood nosh and book signing.
A Hidden Kitchens brunch with readings, and hot tips from The Kitchen Sisters, and special guests, actress Joan Allen, novelist Amy Tan, NY Times Food Writer Kim Severson, and NoshWalks leader Myra Allperson, author of Nosh New York: The Food Lovers Guide to
New York city's Most Delicious Neighborhoods


September 2006


The Sonic Memorial Project
On Public Radio, the week of September 11

chronicling the life and history of the World Trade Center and its neighborhood.

Public Radio Program Director's Conference
Thursday, September 14
Sheraton Philadelphia City Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
The Kitchen Sisters Radio Session--"Making Your Own Driveway Moments: Finding and Telling
Stories"

Capitola Book Cafe
Monday, September 18, 7:30 pm
1475 41st Ave., Capitola, Ca.
Hidden Kitchens Book Reading

The American Museum of Natural History
Wednesday, September 27, 7:00 pm
Kaufmann Theatre, 1st Floor. Central Park West & 79th St.

A night of Hidden Kitchens stories, radio and below-the-radar street cooking.
Meet us at Yvonne Yvonne's Jamaican street truck kitchen in fron of the Museum's 77th Street entrance at 6:30 pm for some of the best West Indian food you'll ever eat. The join us in The Kaufman Theater to find out about some of the gems of Gotham's street food, neighborhood kitchen pioneers and visionaries, also, a dig into the hidden kitchens of the Museum of Natural History. Come hear stories and tell us yours. Dinner & Presentation $25.00 ( $22 members, students & Seniors)

Tales of the Cocktail >link
Celebrating the history and culture of New Orleans
The “Kitchen Sisters” from NPR, local author Poppy Brite, Chef Bob Iacovone of Cuvee, Chef Frank Brigtsen of Brigtsen’s and Chef Jared Tees of The Bourbon House discuss trends in classic dishes and how liquor plays a role in dining and cooking. Explore how tastes, dishes and drinks are shaped by local flavors, like anise, pralines, satsumas and more. It's all about the taste of New Orleans.

KERA / DALLAS
Live interview - Hidden Kitchens Texas
You've probably heard the Lost and Found Sound series on All Things Considered. And chances are good that you're familiar with the Morning Edition series Hidden Kitchens. Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, The Kitchen Sisters, are here in North Texas this week - searching for hidden kitchens, captivating stories, and great audio for their Hidden Kitchens Texas series. They'll be with us for the hour. Jeff Whittington will host.


Boston
Association for the Study of Food and Society
Saturday from 6 to 7 p.m.

Boston University's George Sherman Student Union Conference Auditorium,
775 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston / 617-353-9852 >website

Keynote Address: Hidden Kitchens: Secret, Underground, Unexpected, Below-the-Radar, Community Cooking Across America, or What is it About Men and Meat and Midnight and a Pit?
Presented by The Kitchen Sisters

"Ever wonder what really goes on in other people's kitchens? You may find out when the Kitchen Sisters -- Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva -- co-producers of NPR's "Hidden Kitchens" series, give the keynote address at the joint conference of the
Association for the Study of Food and Society, and the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (admission for public is $5) . They're sure to open the door to kitchens you've never thought of. Case in point: the George Foreman Grill. Until a listener called in to suggest the topic, says Silva, "we had never considered an appliance as a hidden kitchen before." The two will pull vignettes from their radio series, playing many audio tracks of the original stories, recordings that combine dialogue, music, and kitchen sounds. The result is something Silva calls "little movies for your ears." -- Emily Schwab /Boston Globe

-Texas

The Texas Folklife Festival
NPR's Kitchen Sisters to appear June 8 at Texas Folklife Festival
On Stage Presentation:
7:00pm

Texas Public Radio Booth: 6:00 and 7:30pm

Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva, will be joining their friends at Texas Public Radio to make a special appearance at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, where they will be featured guests on Thurs., June 8, on the grounds of UTSA's Institute of Texan Cultures. They will be on two stages the evening of the TFF opening, talking about the art of storytelling and their newest project, Hidden Kitchens Texas, which they are researching now and will release Fall 2006. When they are not on stage, they will be at the Texas Public Radio booth and exploring Texas food and culture on site.
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May 2006

Sunday, May 7. 2006
Trends & Transitions
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Book signing by The Kitchen Sisters
2006 James Beard Foundation Cookbook Award and Restaurant Award nominees
NYU Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square South at LaGuardia Place, NYC. Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th Floor
Open to students and general public


April 2006

KUER RADIO, SALT LAKE CITY
Thursday, April 6, 2006

SONOMA VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
Davia Nelson interviews Film Festival Honoree, Danny Glover, for festival opening.

RADIO MAGIC: The Art of Storytelling
2006 North Gate Professional Seminar
Saturday, April 8
3:00-4:00 PM Listening Session
What’s New & Good by The Kitchen Sisters >Seminar info


AN EVENING WITH MICHAEL POLLAN
Monday, April 17

The Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley presents Michael Pollan,
Professor of Journalism and author of Omnivore's Dilemma, in conversation with Kitchen Sister, Davia Nelson. Introduced by Orville Schell.

7:00 p.m. Anderson Auditorium, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Free event.


March 2006

Hidden Kitchens Story # 16: The Cabyard Kitchen
Airs Friday, March 10, on NPR's Morning Edition

THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA
Thurs, March 2, 6:00 - 7:30pm
Berkeley Mills Event
2870 7th Street, Berkeley, CA

THE STANFORD WRITING CENTER
Conversation with The Kitchen Sisters
March 14, 2006, 7:00pm
Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg 460)
450 Serra Mall Drive
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

PACIFICA LIBRARY
Wednesday, March 15, 7:30pm
104 Hilton Way
Pacifica, CA 94044

PORCHLIGHT SERIES
Hidden Kitchens Listening
With Davia Nelson
Monday, March 27

Cafe DuNord, San Francisco

KWMR, BOLINAS
Thursday, March 30, 2006

January 2006

BOOK PASSAGE/ Corta Madera
Saturday, Jan. 28, 2006, 4:00 pm

December 2005

BOOKWORKS, APTOS
Saturday, December 3, 2005
36 Rancho Del Mar, Aptos, CA 95003


November 2005


BOOK SHOP SANTA CRUZ
Tuesday, November 1, 2005, 7:30 p.m.
Santa Cruz, CA


BOOK PASSAGE

Saturday, November 5, 1:00 p.m.
San Francisco, CA / bookpassage.com


"KRON 4 NEWS DAYBREAK WEEKEND"

8:40-8:50 a.m. live interview KRON-TV

NPR's MORNING EDITION

interview
Tuesday, November 7


WRITERS BLOCK RADIO - KQED FM
interview and podcast >link

“KARE 11 TODAY

Wednesday, November 9, 10:00-11:00 a.m.
KARE-TV (NBC affil.)
Live Interview

“All Things Considered" Minnesota Public Radio
45 East 7th Street
St. Paul, MN 55101

“Chowhounds" - Food Works Inc.
taped interview, in studio
St. Paul, MN


Micawber Books
Wednesday, November 9, 7:00 p.m.
2238 Carter Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108
micawbers.com


“Real Good Words”
- KAXE-FM (NPR affil.)
Thursday, November 10
Grand Rapids, MN


Book People, Austin
Thursday, November 10, 7:00 p.m.

603 N. Lamar Blvd.
Austin, TX 78703
bookpeople.com


INA's / Women & Children First
Monday, November 14, 8:00 a.m.
1235 W. Randolphs
Chicago, IL 60607
Restaurant: 312-226-8227
breakfastqueen.com


Fresh Air - WGBH
Interview with Terry Gross

848 WITH STEVE EDWARDS
WBEZ-FM
Interview: 10:00-10:30 a.m.

Anderson's Bookstore
Tuesday, November 15, 7:00 p.m.
123 W. Jefferson Ave.
Naperville, IL 60540
andersonbookshop.com


Afternoon Edition-
WILL-AM (Illinois Public Radio)
HOST: Celeste Quinn

Olsson's Bookstore
Wednesday, November 16, 7:00 p.m.
Arlington Courthouse
2111 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22314
olssons.com

The Bob Edwards Show - XM SATELLITE RADIO
Wednesday, November 17
. 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Washington, DC 20002


The Brian Lehrer Show - WNYC-FM

BORDERS BOOKS- NYC
Thursday, November 17, 7:00 p.m.
10 Columbus Circle
NY, NY 10019
bordersstores.com


“Talk of Alaska”
with Steve Heimel
Alaska Public Radio
Thursday, November 17, 2:30pm

Shop with the Chef/CUESA

Saturday, November 19, 12:00 p.m.
1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA
ferryplazafarmersmarket.com


READERS BOOKS
Saturday, November 19, 4:30 p.m.
130 E. Napa St. Sonoma, CA
readersbooks.com


COPIA
Hidden Kitchens: Stories, Recipes & More
from NPR’s The Kitchen Sisters

Sunday, November 20, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.
500 First Street, Napa, CA
copia.org

KQED-FM “Forum” with Michael Krasney
Saturday, November 26

A CLEAN WELL LIGHTED PLACE FOR BOOKS
Monday, November 21, 7:00 p.m.
601 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco


KRON-TV / SAN FRANCISCO
Tuesday, November 22

October 2005

RICK KOGAN'S “SUNDAY PAPERS”
Radio Show, WGN
Sunday, October 23, 6:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.


DAVIS KIDD BOOKSELLERS
Wednesday, October 26, 6:00 p.m.
387 Perkins Road Extended
Memphis, TN 38117
daviskidd.com


THACKER MOUNTAIN RADIO SHOW
Thursday, October 27, 5:30 p.m.

GOOD MORNING MEMPHIS - WHBQ-TV (FOX affil.)
Wednesday, October 26 8:45-9:00 a.m.

WREG-TV LIVE AT 9 AM (CBS affil.), MEMPHIS
Wednesday, October 26, 9:30-10:00 a.m.

WKNO-RADIO(NPR affil.), MEMPHIS
Wednesday, October 26, 12:00 p.m.

Sugar Symposium - The Sweet Life: Sugar in the South
October 27-30, 2005
We’ll be teaching an oral history workshop and presenting some of the sweetest stories from Hidden Kitchens at the eighth annual Southern Foodways Symposium held on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

OFF SQUARE BOOKS
Friday, October 28, 6:00 p.m.
160 Courthouse Square
Oxford, MS 38655
squarebooks.com

 
     
   
 
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