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🗓️ 15 July 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Willie Nelson and Dallas-born actress Robin Wright, along with some wild and extraordinary tellers, take us across Texas and share some of their Hidden Kitchen stories. Gas station tacos, ice houses, Chili Queens, Stubb's BBQ, cowboy kitchens, car wash kitchens, space food. With special guests Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Kinky Friedman, Joe Nick Patoski, and so many more.
Produced by The Kitchen Sisters with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Texas Humanities, KUT, NPR and contributors to The Kitchen Sisters Productions.
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| 0:00.0 | Radio Topia. Welcome to the Kitchen Sisters present from PRX. We're the Kitchen Sisters, |
| 0:07.2 | Davia Nelson, and Nikki Silva. Before we get started, we want to recommend a beautiful season of the |
| 0:13.0 | heart that's coming up from fellow Radiotopian Caitlin Prest. Katelyn revisits No, the audio |
| 0:19.5 | documentary classic produced on the eve of the Harvey Weinstein |
| 0:23.5 | scandals about a topic that was supposed to be treated differently forevermore. |
| 0:28.8 | In the series, we follow the stories of a young girl navigating love, sex, and the word no, |
| 0:34.3 | and all the men in her life she tried to say no to. |
| 0:38.8 | Lauded by the New Yorker, |
| 0:45.0 | the New York Times, NPR, the Atlantic. Caitlin addresses this difficult topic in a way that ends up being heartwarming and soul-crushing and funny at the same time. Check out the no series on the |
| 0:51.0 | heart, everywhere you get podcasts. We've been thinking a lot about Texas these past |
| 0:56.2 | weeks and all the many people we've met there over the years, sitting at their tables and |
| 1:00.8 | listening to their music, eating their food, recording their stories. We thought we'd share some of |
| 1:06.8 | those voices again. Today, the Kitchen Sisters present Hidden Kitchens, Texas, with host |
| 1:12.4 | Willie Nelson. When we began searching for Hidden Kitchens a few years ago, we opened up a |
| 1:22.3 | phone line on NPR and asked listeners nationwide for their hot tips. Some 2,789 minutes of messages flooded in. |
| 1:30.3 | Over a third of those calls were from Texas. |
| 1:33.3 | So we called our friend Stuart Vanderville from KUT Austin, |
| 1:37.3 | one of our favorite stations on the planet, |
| 1:39.3 | and explained the situation. |
| 1:41.3 | He said, give into it. Go big. Why don't you just open up a hotline |
| 1:47.0 | for Texas? So we did. And hundreds of people from the Lone Star State called in. |
| 1:53.0 | And they told us about kitchens that would otherwise have been way off our radar. |
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