246 episodes

Smart Mouth is a podcast that cares mostly about food. We talk to the most interesting people we know, working in all kinds of industries, about their favorite dishes. It's a way of finding out what makes them tick. The podcast is brought to you by Katherine Spiers, the former food editor at L.A. Weekly and co-author of Rogue 99.

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    • Arts
    • 4.8 • 220 Ratings

Smart Mouth is a podcast that cares mostly about food. We talk to the most interesting people we know, working in all kinds of industries, about their favorite dishes. It's a way of finding out what makes them tick. The podcast is brought to you by Katherine Spiers, the former food editor at L.A. Weekly and co-author of Rogue 99.

    Beans with Sejal Sukhadwala

    Beans with Sejal Sukhadwala

    Beans, meat substitutes, and capitalism with our century's Samuel Johnson.
     

    Related:

    Hot Sauce with Llewellyn Clarke

    California's Punjabi-Mexican Communities

    Gujarati New Year's Dish

    Beans and Gin
     

    Listen to Smart Mouth: iTunes • Google Podcasts • Pandora • Spotify • RadioPublic • TuneIn • Libsyn • Amazon Music
     

    Check out all our episodes so far here. If you like, pledge a buck or two on Patreon.
     

    Sejal IG
     

    The Philosophy of Curry
     

    Katherine TikTok
     

    Smart Mouth newsletter
     

    Smart Mouth IG

     
    Music:

    The Dictionary Song - Don Robertson

     
    Sources:

    The World of Soy

    Harvard’s School of Public Health

    “Mesoamerican origin of the common bean is revealed by sequence data”

    Seedchange.org

    • 52 min
    Correct Episode! With Maya Lau

    Correct Episode! With Maya Lau

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    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:

    Community Cookbooks with Paula Forbes

    All About Bananas

    Gwyneth Paltrow

    Listen to Smart Mouth: iTunes • Google Podcasts • Stitcher • Spotify • RadioPublic • TuneIn • Libsyn • Amazon Music

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    Maya IG

    Other People's Pockets

    Katherine TikTok

    Smart Mouth newsletter

    Smart Mouth IG

    Music: Los Manos Quietas - Carlos Perez

    Sources:

    Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    Serious Eats 1,2

    Daily Mail

    Paula Forbes

    Stained Page News

    Washington Post

    • 48 min
    Bay Leaves with Maya Lau

    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:

    Community Cookbooks with Paula Forbes

    All About Bananas

    Gwyneth Paltrow

    Listen to Smart Mouth: iTunes • Google Podcasts • Stitcher • Spotify • RadioPublic • TuneIn • Libsyn • Amazon Music

    Check out all our episodes so far here. If you like, pledge a buck or two on Patreon.

    Maya IG

    Other People's Pockets

    Katherine TikTok

    Smart Mouth newsletter

    Smart Mouth IG

    Music: Los Manos Quietas - Carlos Perez

    Sources:

    Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    Serious Eats 1,2

    Daily Mail

    Paula Forbes

    Stained Page News

    Washington Post

    • 48 min
    Industrial Meat and Coca-Cola with Jamie Loftus

    Industrial Meat and Coca-Cola with Jamie Loftus

    Did you know you can sue objects? Coca-Cola does. 
    Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs 
    Listen to Smart Mouth: iTunes • Google Podcasts • Stitcher • Spotify • RadioPublic • TuneIn • Libsyn • Amazon Music
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    Jamie Twitter 
    Jamie IG 
    Katherine TikTok
    Smart Mouth newsletter
    Smart Mouth IG
    Music: Hot Dog - Led Zeppelin 

    • 39 min
    From Other People’s Pockets: Katherine’s Journey from Food Writer to Business Owner

    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.

    • 35 min
    PBR with Sam Sanders

    PBR with Sam Sanders

    Meghan Markle drinks Pacifico, we’re sure of it.
     

    Vibe Check

    Into It
     

    Listen to Smart Mouth: iTunes • Google Podcasts • Stitcher • Spotify • RadioPublic • TuneIn • Libsyn • Amazon Music
     

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    Sam IG
     

    Katherine TikTok

    Smart Mouth newsletter

    Smart Mouth IG
     

    Music: Party in the USA - Miley Cyrus
     

    Sources:

    Atlas Obscura

    Journal of Antiques

    Houston Chronicle

    Pabst Blue Ribbon

    • 44 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
220 Ratings

220 Ratings

Nick McNulty ,

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.

Over the Loon ,

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!

Dan1777999877 ,

Fun listen!

Smart Mouth has me laughing out loud and learning something new every episode - which is a rare combo! Big fan of Katherine and the guests that she has on. Everyone brings such a unique perspective.

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