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Smart Mouth

Smart Mouth

Written by: Katherine Spiers / TableCakes Productions
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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! Art Cooking Food & Wine World
Episodes
  • Asian Chicken Salad with Jon Kung
    Jun 25 2024

    Do we really think Cary Grant invented a salad?

    Kung Food: Chinese American Recipes from a Third-Culture Kitchen

    1 For The Table

    Related episodes:

    Chicken & Waffles with Carl Tart

    American Chinese Food with Edgar Momplaisir

    Ruth Wakefield & the Chocolate Chip Cookie

    Personal Foodways with Chris Scott

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    Music: José Feliciano - California Dreamin'

    Notes on MSG:

    Dr. Ho Man Kwok and MSG

    and it continues...

    FDA 1,2,3

    USDA

    Reddit 1,2

    Sources:

    LA TImes 1,2

    Food Network

    PBS

    Madame Wu

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Charleston with Hanna Raskin
    Jun 13 2024

    Myths and truths about one of the South's more food-focused cities.

    The Food Section

    Hanna IG

    Related Episodes:

    Ladies Who Lunch

    Pimento Cheese

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    Music: Symphony No. 3 in C Minor - III. Juba. Allegro - Florence Price

    Notes:

    The Myth of the Holy City

    BBQ hash

    Lady Baltimore cake

    Huguenot torte

    Sources:

    The Food Section 1,2

    St Andrew's Parish

    Charleston magazine

    West Of Free Press

    St Philip's Church

    Sara's Weeknight Meals

    National Park Service, House Beautiful

    The Sunday Record

    Mystic Tea Room

    "To Make the Whole World Homelike:" Gender, Space, and America's Tea Room Movement

    JSTOR Daily

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    38 mins
  • Sesame Balls with Kat Lieu
    Jun 5 2024

    You can make restaurant-quality pho at home. You just gotta believe in yourself, and also fuel up on dozens of sesame balls.

    Modern Asian Kitchen

    Kat IG

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    Music: Wassup Pham - Sabzi

    Sources:

    Modernist Cuisine

    The Fresh Loaf

    A Taste of History

    Reddit

    VolleyTalk

    Wall Street Journal

    Journal of Chinese Literature

    The Sino-Platonic Papers

    Classical Chinese Poems in English

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    36 mins
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