Smart Mouth Katherine Spiers / TableCakes Productions
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An illuminating, conversational podcast about the surprising histories behind the foods we love. Did you know Mussolini tried to ban pasta in Italy? Or that Cajun food has proud Canadian ancestry? Guests are a mix of experts in their fields and professional funny people, so you'll probably learn something and maybe have a chuckle, too. Hosted by Katherine Spiers, former food editor at LA Weekly and current manager of the website How to Eat L.A.
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Queer Food with John Birdsall
Kitsch versus camp and the politics of quiche.
The Man Who Ate Too Much
Related:
Mai tais with Allan Katz
Coconut shrimp with Julia Loken
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Music: Quiche Lorraine - The B-52s
Sources:
John Birdsall 1,2
Gastronomica
Slate
Eater
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Which Animals Have Taste? With Katie Goldin
Crows. You gotta hand it to them.
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Creature Feature
Secretly Incredibly Fascinating Podcast
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Music: I Love My Dog - Cat Stevens
Sources:
San Diego Zoo, 2
Mental Floss
ToughLittleBirds.com
Scientific American
The Condor
Science.com
Australian Broadcast Corporation
Nutrients
Carni Sostenibili
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Salt the Chicken with Susan Jung
A dream job and many dream fried chicken recipes.
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Kung Pao & Beyond
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Music: Salt - Ava Max
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First We Feast
"Identification of the Yellow Skin Gene Reveals a Hybrid Origin of the Domestic Chicken" -
Tyromancy with Jennifer Billock
There's no end of ways to tell the future. But most importantly: with cheese.
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Kitchen Witch
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Music: Big Cheese - Nirvana
Sources:
Eater
The Awl
PBS
Modern Language Notes
The Modern Language Review
Isis
Omancy Fancy
History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718
"Select Cases of Conscience Touching Witches and Witchcraft"
Witch Hunts in Europe and America: An Encyclopedia …
Marks of an Absolute Witch: Evidentiary Dilemmas in Early Modern England, Rhetoric, Science, & Magic in Seventeenth-Century England -
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: Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses
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Related Episodes:
Christmas Cookies with Kim-Joy
Maraschino Cherries with Courtney Nichols
Sources
FDA
Farmer's Almanac
A-Z of Food and Drink
Oxford Companion to Food
Eater
Punch
Time
Washington Post
Food Timeline
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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 is here.
You can listen to Smart Mouth on iTunes, on Stitcher, on Spotify. Check out all our episodes so far here. If you like, pledge a buck or two on Patreon. If you'd rather make a one-time gift, I'm on Venmo and PayPal on the TableCakes accounts.
Music: Christmas Dreaming by Harry Connick Jr
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Sources:
History.com
Martha Stewart
NPR
Christian Science Monitor
Iceland.com
Sweet Invention: A History of Dessert
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Customer Reviews
A delicious way to enjoy history!
Thank you for all of these thoughtful and impeccably researched episodes!
A great food podcast
Smart Mouth has been a wonderful look into the history of food and the future of recipes. Interviews are quick witted and the historical details are top notch (particularly the episde about Toll House cookies). If you live in the LA area, Katherine is a great follow to let you know the best places to eat each weekend. As the show has progressed, however, it has slowly started to morph into "here's why your favorite food is actually problematic/racist." In the recent episode about hotdogs, it only took three minutes to digress into a discussion about how much they hate the police.
Nerdy and awesome
Loving this podcast. The host, Katherine, is funny and passionate. I never thought I would care about highly specific morsels of food history but here we are. It’s also very much not just about food, though. This show has a POV and a personality and I have laughed out loud several times. Recommend!