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An addictively illuminating, often hilarious, conversational podcast about the surprising histories behind the foods we love. Hosted by independent journalist and food anthropologist, Katherine Spiers (LA Times, LA Weekly, KCET, Eater, How to Eat L.A.). Guests include Anthony Bourdain, Georgia Hardstark, Jacques Pepin, Llewellyn Clarke, Sarah Kuhn, Claudette Zepeda, Jon Garbus, Danny Trejo, Flula Borg and many other compelling people who eat food!

Asian Chicken Salad with Jon Kung 06/25/2024

Asian Chicken Salad with Jon Kung Do we really think Cary Grant invented a salad? Related episodes: Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . If you'd rather make a one-time gift, I'm on and . Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Music: Notes on MSG: FDA ,, Reddit , Sources: LA TImes , /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/31871732

Charleston with Hanna Raskin 06/13/2024

Charleston with Hanna Raskin Myths and truths about one of the South's more food-focused cities. Hanna Related Episodes: Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . If you'd rather make a one-time gift, I'm on and . Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Music: Notes: Sources: The Food Section , /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/31738297

Sesame Balls with Kat Lieu 06/05/2024

Sesame Balls with Kat Lieu You can make restaurant-quality pho at home. You just gotta believe in yourself, and also fuel up on dozens of sesame balls. Kat Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . If you'd rather make a one-time gift, I'm on and . Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Music: Sources: /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/31609242

Food Gifts with Elle Simone Scott 05/22/2024

Food Gifts with Elle Simone Scott The resident food stylist at America's Test Kitchen on the history of boxes of chocolate ... and where she might find Lupin. Elle Related episodes: Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . If you'd rather make a one-time gift, I'm on and . Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Music: Sources: /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/31397027

Hickory, Pecans, and Soup 04/26/2024

Hickory, Pecans, and Soup A dish I had absolutely never heard of before. Related Episode: Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . If you'd rather make a one-time gift, I'm on and . Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Music: Sources: /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/31004853

Raw Milk 04/10/2024

Raw Milk Do I drink it? Yes. Am I a sovereign citizen? Depends on my mood. (.) Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . If you'd rather make a one-time gift, I'm on and . Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Music: Sources (I over-researched this one. I may or may not have used info from every source here, but I figured I'd include them all to be safe.): lies . /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/30556668

Soul Rolls with KJ Kearney 03/27/2024

Soul Rolls with KJ Kearney Soul rolls and other culinary smash ups; should legacy publications stay in their lane; activists who are not empaths. Related episode: IG: TikTok: Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . If you'd rather make a one-time gift, I'm on and . Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Music: Sources: , , /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/30536753

Queer Food with John Birdsall 02/28/2024

Queer Food with John Birdsall Kitsch versus camp and the politics of quiche. Related: Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . If you'd rather make a one-time gift, I'm on and . Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Music: Sources: John Birdsall , /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/30023043

Which Animals Have Taste? With Katie Goldin 02/14/2024

Which Animals Have Taste? With Katie Goldin Crows. You gotta hand it to them. Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . If you'd rather make a one-time gift, I'm on and . Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Music: Sources: , /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/29882843

Salt the Chicken with Susan Jung 01/24/2024

Salt the Chicken with Susan Jung A dream job and many dream fried chicken recipes. Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . If you'd rather make a one-time gift, I'm on and . Susan Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Music: Sources: "" /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/29568138

Tyromancy with Jennifer Billock 01/17/2024

Tyromancy with Jennifer Billock There's no end of ways to tell the future. But most importantly: with cheese. Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . If you'd rather make a one-time gift, I'm on and . Jennifer Kitchen Witch Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Music: Sources: … , /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/29423878

Replay: Eggnog with Drew Mackie 12/26/2023

Replay: Eggnog with Drew Mackie Do you enjoy eggnog without alcohol? Plus, peach schnapps trauma, a detour through Television Without Pity, and Her Majesty's Milk Punch. Music: Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . If you'd rather make a one-time gift, I'm on and on the TableCakes accounts. Want food stories from around the world? . Drew on • Drew on Follow Smart Mouth: • • • Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • Related Episodes: Sources /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/29103718

Replay: Christmas Cookies with Kim-Joy 12/20/2023

Replay: Christmas Cookies with Kim-Joy The GBBO star on reassuring baking, the invention of Christmas bribery, and the uniquely American "cookies and milk" combo. Transcript for this episode . You can listen to Smart Mouth on , on , on . Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . If you'd rather make a one-time gift, I'm on and on the TableCakes accounts. Music: Want food stories from around the world? . Kim Kim Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Katherine Sources: Listen on: /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/29103583

Replay: Peppermint with Niccole Thurman 12/13/2023

Replay: Peppermint with Niccole Thurman What is “childhood”? When was it invented? The same time as candy canes? Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Niccole on • Niccole on Follow Smart Mouth: • • Katherine Music: Related Episodes: Sources: /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/29052993

Christmas Candy with Daniel Zafran 12/06/2023

Christmas Candy with Daniel Zafran “Christmas candy” is just vibes. So what's your favorite? Related episodes: Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . Candy is Dandy Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Music: Sources: , /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/28900283

The Official Turkey Pardon 11/21/2023

The Official Turkey Pardon This thing's so weird. Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Music: Sources: Reagan Library , White House History , /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/28677713

Eating Korean Food and Writing Books with Tien Nguyen 11/15/2023

Eating Korean Food and Writing Books with Tien Nguyen How to go from eating soup to writing a book about it. Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . Tien Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Music: Sources: /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/28638903

Lady Desserts with Valerie Gordon 10/18/2023

Lady Desserts with Valerie Gordon Are women compared to desserts because they're sweet? Because they're unimportant? And why was everyone so weird about Liv Tyler? Related: Ladies Who Lunch: / Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . Valerie Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Music: Sources: /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/28337852

Meat raffles and Snickers salads with Ben Mandelker 10/04/2023

Meat raffles and Snickers salads with Ben Mandelker When two coastal elites explore Midwestern food. Related: Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . Ben Amanda Rettke Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Music: Sources: /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/28150982

Beans with Sejal Sukhadwala 09/20/2023

Beans with Sejal Sukhadwala Beans, meat substitutes, and capitalism with our century's Samuel Johnson. Related: Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . Sejal Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Music: Sources: /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/28017066

Correct Episode! With Maya Lau 06/14/2023

Correct Episode! With Maya Lau There was an uploading error to some platforms. So listen to this one if the previous version isn't working for you! Maya Lau joins Smart Mouth for the last episode of the season! She and Katherine talk about the universal herb and living in foreign countries, and then compare Oprah and Gwyneth. Related: Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . Maya Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Music: Sources: Serious Eats , /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/27143949

Bay Leaves with Maya Lau 06/08/2023

Bay Leaves with Maya Lau Maya Lau joins Smart Mouth for the last episode of the season! She and Katherine talk about the universal herb and living in foreign countries, and then compare Oprah and Gwyneth. Related: Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . Maya Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Music: Sources: Serious Eats , /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/27072810

Industrial Meat and Coca-Cola with Jamie Loftus 05/24/2023

Industrial Meat and Coca-Cola with Jamie Loftus Did you know you can sue objects? Coca-Cola does. Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . Jamie Jamie Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Music: /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/26933664

From Other People’s Pockets: Katherine’s Journey from Food Writer to Business Owner 05/09/2023

From Other People’s Pockets: Katherine’s Journey from Food Writer to Business Owner In this special episode, I’m sharing a conversation I had on a new podcast, Other People’s Pockets. On Other People’s Pockets, journalist Maya Lau asks people from all walks of life to get radically transparent about their personal finances in order to learn more about who we are and level the financial playing field along the way. Maya and I chatted about eating my way through L.A and what it means for my finances, along with how I went from food writing to business ownership. If you like what you hear, be sure to listen to Other People’s Pockets at apple.co/pockets. /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/26794308

PBR with Sam Sanders 05/03/2023

PBR with Sam Sanders Meghan Markle drinks Pacifico, we’re sure of it. Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . Sam Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Music: Sources: /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/26711436

Using Your Food with Tamar Adler 04/19/2023

Using Your Food with Tamar Adler Tamar Adler does such cool work with cooking - her new book, The Everlasting Meal Cookbook: Leftovers A-Z, outlines how to actually use all the food you have in your kitchen. It’s extremely helpful and I really appreciate her point of view - there’s a tendency in the US to be like "here are things to buy to be more earth-friendly.” No. That is not the vibe today. Also I bonded with Tamar over the dirty looks we get in the grocery store for doing something that is considered so gross - but it’s not! Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . Tamar Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Related: Music: Sources: /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/26545554

Hotdish with Kristen Meinzer 04/05/2023

Hotdish with Kristen Meinzer Yes, it's one word - because it's one word in Swedish, too. Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . Kristen Meinzer Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Related: Music: Sources: /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/26448648

Popcorn with Dan Pashman 03/22/2023

Popcorn with Dan Pashman Agriculture and movie theatres, working together since the Depression - but at absolute odds before that. Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . Dan Pashman Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Related: Apples () Apples () Music: Sources: /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/26241069

Fika, Sweden's Obsession 03/08/2023

Fika, Sweden's Obsession When you'll take any excuse for "coffee and cake." Related: Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Music: Sources: /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/26093778

Comfort Food with Niccole Thurman 02/22/2023

Comfort Food with Niccole Thurman What is your comfort food and why do you call it that? Listen to Smart Mouth: • • • • • • • Check out all our episodes so far . If you like, pledge a buck or two . Niccole Niccole Katherine Smart Mouth Smart Mouth Music: Sources: /episode/index/show/smartmouthpod/id/25941051

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