The Pizza Connection + Turnspit Dogs

The Kitchen Sisters Present

The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 14 October 2014

⏱️ 20 minutes

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A Hidden Kitchens World Podcast Trifecta with Frances McDormand and The Kitchen Sisters. In this episode Salman Rushdie talks about his Hidden Kitchen. We travel to Sicily for The Pizza Connection—a story of fighting the mafia through food. And on to England for the seldom heard saga of a small dog bred to run in a wheel that turned a roasting spit in medieval kitchens—The Turnspit Dog: The Rise and Fall of the Vernepator Cur.

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0:00.0	Radio Topia. Welcome to the Kitchen Sisters present. We're the Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson, and Nikki Silva.
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1:28.3	My name is Salmond Rushdie and I write books. In the mid-70s, there was a period when I used to do advertising for Rantries chocolates.
1:43.3	I was working at the ad agency that did a lot of the brands.
1:48.0	One of my most well-known advertising campaigns was for Rountry's Aero Chocolate.
1:53.0	It's called Aero because it's errated chocolate.
1:56.0	So it's kind of got bubbles inside.
1:58.0	We did this campaign.
2:00.0	It was words ending in bubble. So it was
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