The Kitchen Sisters

The making of dinner...

M.K. Lee from San Francisco makes amigurumi animals...

Theresa Laquey is a seamstress and comes from a long line of seamstresses...

Paul Kangis from San Francisco is making the future...

A call from Oakland, about the salaries we make...

From Dana Yares from My Urban Farm in Petaluma.

The World's Champion One-handed Pool Player. "It just got in your blood like a man on dope, or drinking whiskey, you gotta have it. I'd die if I didn't get to play every day a little bit. The football shot, I'll show you that in a minute..." Ernie Morgan traveled the pool halls of America shooting exhibition pool nightly, telling his life story.

Some of the most surprising contributions to the Sonic Memorial project were the many tales of romance and marriage that took place at the top of the World Trade Center. We share some of those tales in this story.

The Kitchen Sisters and KQED are launching The Making Of... a new series that explores what people make in the Bay Area and why. What are you making? Call The Making Of... phone line and tell us your story: 415-553-3362.

The Making of a Beat. A call from Dr. Elliot Gann who co-founded Today's Future Sound a non-profit that teaches beat-making to youth throughout the Bay Area. http://todaysfuturesound.bandcamp.com/ What are YOU making? Call 415-553-3362 or visit http://kqed.org/makingof

WHER: 1000 Beautiful Watts. The first all-girl radio station in the nation. From our Peabody Award winning NPR series, Lost & Found Sound.

The Kitchen Sisters and KQED Public Radio are launching a new series, The Making Of... What people make in the Bay Area and why. The making of the Bay Bridge, the making of the iPhone, a jar of jam, an opera, a surfboard... What are you making? Call The Making Of... phone line and tell us your story: 415-553-3362. The Making Of...coming soon.

A story of transportation, civil rights and glitter, coming soon to The Making Of... a new multimedia community documentary project produced by The Kitchen Sisters and KQED Public Radio. This is an excerpt of a work-in-progress.

The Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, take us to Eel Pie Island, a tiny slice of land in the middle of the River Thames. Now a small bohemian community of artists, inventors, river gypsies and boat builders, Eel Pie Island has a flamboyant history that stretches from Henry VIII to the Rolling Stones.

The Hidden Kitchens hotline received hundreds of messages from across America. We share some of the stories about food and the fellowship it fosters.

Route 66: The Hard Road & The Ghost Road Produced by The Kitchen Sisters

On July 11, American cooking legend, Marion Cunningham died. She was 90. Elegant, down-to-earth, a lover of life, people, iceberg lettuce, waffles, desserts and the family table, Marion helped transform American home cooking. Hand-picked by James Beard to revise the Fannie Farmer cookbooks, Marion began her career at 50. An elegant woman, long skirt, silver pony tail, big laugh, wicked twinkle in...

"We met through our boyfriends, Peter Barnowsky and Robert Mapplethorpe.... In the Summer of '68, we became friends. At first Patti and I spent our afternoons drawing. When I started to photograph her, it seemed as easy as sharing colored pencils. It was simple. Patti liked being photographed.... Patti and I were friends the way children are friends. With Chirpy little voices, we daydreamed a futu...

Listen. It's 6:30 pm in Montevideo. The streets are full of traffic, and the radio is on everywhere. Tune into CX22 Radio Universal AM 970 and you can hear Elena Fonseca present Nunca en Domingo (Never on Sunday) her daily women's radio show. Elena is 81 years old, elegant and on fire. Sam Robinson, from London, has been interning with The Kitchen Sisters. He heard the tape we brought back from Ur...

A group of babushkas, or elderly women, who live in Buranovo, Russia, have become a musical sensation. They sing Beatles tunes and songs by iconic Russian rocker Viktor Tsoi. They fly around the country for concerts. And it all started because they turned to music during tough times. Produced by David Greene.

In 2011, Amira Al-Sharif came to New York City to document the lives of young American women. The 28-year-old was born in Saudi Arabia, grew up in Yemen and was the first person from her family to graduate from university. And while western journalists often document Arab women, Al-Sharif wanted to flip the script. Produced by Shereen Marisol Meraji.

Gen. Vang Pao, an exiled leader from the Hmong hill tribe in communist Laos, was a CIA ally during the Vietnam War. Now, shortly after his death and six-day funeral in California, NPR’s Doualy Xaykaothao — Vang Pao’s grandniece — is delving into her family history. Who was Vang Pao, and what stories can his surviving sisters share?

The termite queen may be the mother who makes the ultimate sacrifice for her swarms of children. Isolated in an earthen capsule, she lays more than a quarter-billion eggs in her lifetime. On the eve of Mother’s Day, NPR honors this species’ story of struggle, rebirth and death below ground.

About 1 million Muslim women live in America; 43 percent of them wear headscarves full time. But now, a generation of Muslim women is taking off the headscarf, or hijab. For many, their choice is an attempt to balance their private lives with a very public symbol of their religion. Produced by Asma Khalid. Edited by Steve Drummond

Many girls fantasize about horses, dolphins and unicorns. One theory about why is that it helps them express their power. Others say the animals — real and mythical — symbolize dreaming and achieving. Still for many, it’s a way to run away with their imaginations.