Join Milwaukee Kitchen's Patreon /  by Paul Druecke

Join us on our Patreon.

We recently talked to guests from Episode 20 about their interest in Milwaukee Kitchen. You can check out the video on our new Patreon page. Please join us there for the most current MK updates. We’d be ecstatic if you supported MK with a paid membership. There is also a free membership where you’ll get great insights and access.

Milwaukee kitchen Ep 20 Some Like It Hot - now streaming! /  by Paul Druecke

It’s time to bump up the heat! New episode and Patreon page, with a variety of ways to connect, support, and get behind the scenes. 

With Flora Coker, Marcie Hoffman, Anika Wilson, Santiago Cucullu, Alderperson Jonathan Brostoff, Benjamin Jackson, and special appearances  by Ann Christenson. Featuring music by Colin O’Brien. We are celebrating our guiding voice as she continues the journey. This and the next episode are dedicated to Penita 2008-2023.

Milwaukee Kitchen Ep 20 Some Like It Hot

We'd like to thank our supporters. /  by Paul Druecke

We thank our supporters for their role in keeping the kitchen warm.

Milwaukee Kitchen is possible because of your generosity. The cozy feeling when you know friends are thinking about you. Memories of meals shared as well as those yet to come. You have an open invitation to be part of Milwaukee Kitchen’s ongoing conversations about crowded soup, sourdough bread, local venues, and much more.

Check out our Wall of Support.

We would love to add your name!

Milwaukee Kitchen Call for Support on our 5 year Anniversary /  by Paul Druecke

We are asking for your support. After 5 years of largely self-funding Milwaukee Kitchen’s unique story-telling and camaraderie, we need your help to continue bringing MK to your home. Of course, we’ve created fun incentives for every contribution level.

The easiest way to support us is through our Venmo @MilwaukeeKitchen we gladly accept other methods of contributing.

In April of 2023 we began our sixth year with Ep 18 Coffee and Wine, which delivers our signature blend of personality and pick-me-up. Described by Milwaukee Record as “the antidote for modern cooking programs (and everything else).” As the new season begins, please support and/or share the request with others. 

INCENTIVES FOR SUPPORTING MK
Sparkling Beverage
Contribute $5-29 - receive your name on our support wall along with our deep gratitude.

Appetizer
Contribute $30-99 - receive a shout out on social media and custom designed postcard commemorating MK’s 5 year anniversary, signed and with a hand-written thank you. Along with the above.

Soup & Salad
Contribute $100-299 - receive your name in the episode End Credits for an entire season (4 episodes). Along with the above.

Entrée
Contribute $300-499 - receive an invitation to a MK Meet and Greet with staff and episode regulars. Snacks included. And all of the above.

Dessert
Contribute $500-899 - receive an invitation to be behind the scenes during the production of a MK episode. Along with the above.

Apertif
Contribute $900+ - receive an invitation for you and a guest of your choosing to appear on an episode of MK. Along with the above.

Do you have a favorite guest among MK’s growing list of notable visitors? Have you plugged into MK to enjoy the art of coincidence and improbable connection? Or looked forward to our slightly over-the-top neighborhood kitchen where guests are themselves? Do you like domestic routines set in the landscape with gulls soaring and eternal rivers? Or maybe you identify with the kitchen as a place of social fusion? (Page currently in progress, check back for updates.)

The easiest way to support us is through our Venmo @MilwaukeeKitchen
We are of course happy to work with you on alternative support methods. Anonymous donations are welcome and will be honored as such.

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Support Milwaukee Kitchen on our 5 year Anniversary

 

Milwaukee Kitchen Ep 17 Stir Fried /  by Paul Druecke

Break the sink, burn the rice, butt heads, ingredients for everybody’s favorite meal.

With Marcie Hoffmann, Kevin Miyazaki, Pedro Gutierrez, Ariana Vaeth, Ladi Ananna, and Flora Coker. Feature musical guest Pedro Gutierrez. Thanks to our guests and to you for joining us! We hope you enjoy, send us a note, and shout out MK. Bon apetit 

Milwaukee Kitchen /  by Paul Druecke

Video Still, Milwaukee Kitchen Episode 06, Salad Days

Milwaukee Kitchen is a made-for-Youtube cooking program with the motto: always staged, never rehearsed. The program showcases the kitchen as generative meeting ground with a rotating cast of hosts and guests. The main feature is the kitchen’s magnetic capability to bring people together and put an edge on the exchange of food and ideas.

The project explores food ways and their surrounding social rituals as a means of creating shared experiences and nuanced idiosyncrasies. A typical episode highlights the kitchen as the heart of domestic routine, cultural hybridity, social comforts, and science-like experimentation.

The project uses mainstream technologies to create and distribute an earnest, if off-kilter, love of everything the vernacular kitchen represents by way of feeding us. The project pays homage to recipes and cookbooks across a wide spectrum of cultural backgrounds, eras, and pragmatic usefulness. Since its inception in 2018, Milwaukee Kitchen has showcased dozens of recipes and over thirty guests.

Milwaukee Kitchen is produced in a cottage house, built circa 1890, in a neighborhood of equally modest housing stock situated five minutes from the urban center of a medium-sized midwestern city that continues to adapt and reinvent itself in today’s post-industrial, pandemic landscape.

Press coverage of Milwaukee Kitchen:
‘Milwaukee Kitchen’ is the antidote for modern cooking shows (and everything else)
—Milwaukee Record
Cooking and Community on Milwaukee Kitchen —Shepherd Express
Milwaukee Kitchen —Milwaukee Magazine and 88.Nine

See Current | Upcoming posts for links and additional episode information.

Screening History:
Woodland Pattern Book Center, May 9th 2019