The Kitchen Sisters Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva), producers of NPR's The Keepers, Hidden Kitchens, Hidden World of Girls & The Kitchen Sisters Present podcast

Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands
Linda Ronstadt
The legendary Linda Ronstadt has a new book out today, Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands. We visited Linda at home to ask her about this historical, musical, edible memoir that spans the story of five generations. Listen to the podcast: https://t.co/f3rJzGOtM2 https://t.co/KjHod7Ggeb
Hardcover, 2022
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Women Talking
Miriam Toews
The 2023 Academy Award nominations were just announced. #WomenTalking received 2—Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Several years back Frances McDormand read Women Talking, the novel by Miriam Toews based on real-life events, and decided she wanted to make it into a film.
Paperback, 2020
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
Ari Shapiro
Soooo looking forward to being in conversation with the one and only @arishapiro tonight @bookpassage in Corte Madera about his new book The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening. Hope to see you there! https://t.co/M3LAla3VID https://t.co/rJ5yqSMhsu
Paperback, 2024
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
State of Terror
Louise Penny
Late last year Hillary Rodham Clinton and best-selling Canadian mystery writer Louise Penny came out with State of Terror, a ripping political thriller that quickly hit the New York Times Best Seller List.
Paperback, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
Jessica Bruder
She had done the same with Jessica Bruder's book Nomadland several years earlier. Frances received an Academy Award for Best Actress for her startling performance in Nomadland and another as part of the producing team.
Paperback, 2018
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
Marcia Chatelain
The Kitchen Sisters Present… "The Golden Arches in Black America," a conversation with @DrMChatelain about her @PulitzerPrizes winning book "Franchise" from @foodprintorg's "What You're Eating" podcast. https://t.co/JMFkewK0BS https://t.co/1KOGAWP3v7
Paperback, 2021
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Both/And: A Memoir
Huma Abedin
At the same time, Huma Abedin, Secretary Clinton’s former close aide and Deputy Chief of Staff came out with a memoir, Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds, the story of her roots, the path that led her to work with the First Lady and the triumphs and controversies of her life.
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Farewell to Manzanar
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Akemi, artist Howard Ikemoto, Berkeley graduate Tami Takahashi, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, author of “Farewell to Manzanar,” Jimi Yamaichi of @JAMsjOfficial & @GeorgeTakei talk about how the internment forever re-shaped their lives, their food, their family https://t.co/CYU6xD0PFP https://t.co/fMeyIDU2HF
Paperback, 2017
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking
Niloufer Ichaporia King
She is an anthropologist, a kitchen botanist, a one-of-a-kind cook, a Parsi from Bombay living in San Francisco, and the author of My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking.
Hardcover, 2007
$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book