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Hercules and Hemings: Presidents' Slave Chefs
February 19, 2008 Hercules, a slave of George Washington, and James Hemings, owned by Thomas Jefferson, began a long connection of presidents and their African-American cooks. And President Lyndon Johnson's black cook may have influenced his work on civil rights reform.
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Kibbe at the Crossroads: A Lebanese Kitchen Story
January 31, 2008 In the late 1870s, Lebanese immigrants began arriving in the Mississippi Delta, working first as peddlers, then grocers and restaurateurs. Kibbe, a meatloaf of sorts, is part of the glue that continues to hold the Lebanese family culture together in the Delta and beyond.
Driveway Moments
Weenie Royale: Food and the Japanese Internment
December 20, 2007 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 the traditional Japanese diet and erased the family table.
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The Birth of the Frito
October 18, 2007 The Kitchen Sisters explore the saga of a Texas corn chip and C.E. Doolin, the can-do visionary behind it. Doolin, who envisioned Fritos as a side dish, never imagined anyone would consume an entire king size bag. The story of the Frito is the latest in the "Hidden Kitchens" series.
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Beyond Tang: Food in Space
June 7, 2007 NASA's Johnson Space Center invited The Kitchen Sisters to visit its "hidden kitchen." On the eve of NASA's scheduled launch of space shuttle Atlantis, The Kitchen Sisters present a brief history of space food.
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Mozart's Hidden Kitchen
January 26, 2007 On the eve of Mozart's 251st birthday, The Kitchen Sisters take us to Vienna, to Mozart's Hidden Kitchen: "The Tables of New Crowned Hope." The festival honored the composer's free-thinking philosophy, innovation and radical music.
The Kochklub Kuhn: The First Cooking Club of Vienna
January 26, 2007 Felix Muhrhofer, founder of the Kochklub Kuhn, describes the idea behind what is perhaps Vienna's first cooking club.
Mozart Loved Music... and Liver Dumplings
January 26, 2007 Read a recipe and tips for making liver dumplings, one of Mozart's favorite dishes.
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Farm Aid: Saving the Family Farm
November 23, 2006 The Kitchen Sisters visit the 21st annual Farm Aid benefit concert in Camden, N.J., for some turkey-stuffin', potato-mashin' music and some deep stories of an endangered tradition — the American family farm.
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Deep-Fried Fuel: A Biodiesel Kitchen Vision
August 24, 2006 At a truck stop between Dallas and Waco, Texas, a little energy revolution has begun. Truckers at Carl's Corner fill up on BioWillie, biodiesel named after singer Willie Nelson. The fuel is made from farm crops and recycled restaurant grease.
Last Night's Impromptu Truck-Stop Buffet
August 24, 2006 Truckers have been calling the Hidden Kitchens hotline since the beginning. Bob "Trucker Dad" Stanton shared this story.
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Texas Icehouses Melt Away
June 30, 2006 Texas Icehouses — part town hall, part tavern, icehouses have been a South Texas tradition since the 1920s. Once a vital part of everyday local culture, a cornerstone of every neighborhood in San Antonio and Houston, they are a rapidly diminishing, endangered species. A journey into this Mexican, German, Tejano, Anglo tradition.
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Hidden Kitchen Mama
May 12, 2006 In honor of Mother's Day, The Kitchen Sisters linger in the room in the house where families gather and children are fed, where all good parties begin and end. The room where the best stories are told.
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Janete's Midnight Cabyard Kitchen
March 10, 2006 The revelation that Brazilian cab drivers in San Francisco were getting a taste of home at an off-the-radar restaurant sparked the interest of radio producers The Kitchen Sisters. Soon, they were making midnight runs to Janete's Cabyard Kitchen.
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'Hidden Kitchens': Stories, Recipes and More
November 7, 2005 The new book by The Kitchen Sisters charts their ongoing series of reports exploring the world of street-corner cooking, colorful kitchen rituals and visionaries, legendary meals and eating traditions.
