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The sisters are Nikki Silva &amp; Davia Nelson, and are produced\u00a0in collaboration with Laura Folger, Nathan Dalton, and interns, Alessandra Wollner and Eloise Melzer and the segments are mixed by Jim McKee.<\/p>\n<p>Always a treat listening to each new segment of Hidden Kitchens, and the one that aired this morning entitled <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=93067862\" target=\"_self\">Birth Of Rice-a-Roni: The Armenian-Italian Treat<\/a><\/strong>, really interested me. Of course they all interest me because I have always been enamored with food history. The story goes back to the 1940&#8217;s and an Armenian\u00a0woman Pailadzo Captanian, also known as &#8220;Grandma Cap&#8221; in San Francisco who made a rice and pasta pilaf and turned over her recipe to a local pasta company, who in turn gave it a name and a new boxed side dish for American consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The online story also has the original recipe that Mrs. Cap made as well as a Baklava recipe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I listen to NPR on the way to work every morning and also in the afternoon drive home and each week they have a segment known as &#8220;Hidden Kitchens&#8221; by the Kitchen Sisters. 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