Hidden Kitchens

Hidden Kitchens is a duPont award-winning ongoing series of sound-rich stories on NPR's Morning Edition that explores how communities across the nation come together through food. Producers The Kitchen Sisters travel the country and chronicle all kinds of American kitchen cultures, past and present. Here's what you can expect in May 2 through 16...followed by a special WKMS produced Hidden Kitchens featuring culinary treasures right here in our region!

Fridays, May 2 & 9 at Noon
Explore secret, underground, unknown, unofficial, below the radar kitchen stories from across America with narrator and Oscar-winning actress Frances McDormand, including: Hidden Kitchens Calling; An Unexpected Kitchen: The George Foreman Grill; NASCAR Kitchens: Feed the Speed; Listener Phone Messages: An Impromptu Trucker's Buffet, and much more!

Friday, May 16 at Noon
Hosts Willie Nelson and Dallas-born actress Robin Wright Penn, along with singer Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Los Lonely Boys, and some extraordinary tellers take us across Texas and share their own hidden kitchens!

And Coming Friday, May 23 at Noon...
WKMS presents stories of hidden chefs and culinary treats throughout our region. More details to come in the May 15 issue of WIRED.

If YOU want to tell us about a tucked-away eatery in our region that delights your senses, send an e-mail to Stephanie Nutter-Osborne at stephanie.nutterosborne@murraystate.edu.

May's Hidden Kitchens series is underwritten in part by SereniTea Tea Company in Paducah.

For more information about NPR's Hidden Kitchens series, click here.