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Smart Mouth episodes

  • Asian Chicken Salad with Jon Kung

    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

    1 hr 7 min
  • Charleston with Hanna Raskin

    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

    39 min
  • 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.

    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

    37 min
  • 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.

    Food Gifts: 150 Irresistible Recipes for Crafting Personalized Presents

    Elle IG

    Related episodes:

    Chocolate

    Eggnog

    Fika, Sweden's Obsession

    Christmas Candy

    Breadlines & Famines

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    Music: Place Vendôme - Mathieu Lamboley

    Sources:

    Food52

    Russell Stover

    Baker's Coconut on Gutenberg.org

    Pensacola News Journal

    The Montgomery Advertiser

    The Bangor Daily News

    Press and Sun-Bulletin

    The Crowley Post-Signal

    38 min
  • Hickory, Pecans, and Soup

    A dish I had absolutely never heard of before.

    Related Episode: Diversity in Native American Food with Loretta Barrett Oden

    Corn Dance: Inspired First American Cuisine

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    Music: Une Noix - Charles Trenet

    Sources:

    Cherokee Cooklore

    Serious Eats

    Slow Food USA

    USDA

    MPR News

    BBC

    USDA Agricultural Research Service

    11 min
  • Raw Milk

    Do I drink it? Yes. Am I a sovereign citizen? Depends on my mood.

    (Written version here.)

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    Music: Freedom! '90 - George Michael

    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.):

    https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/17/garden/salmonella-outbreak-is-traced.html

    https://gidmk.substack.com/p/raw-milk-literally-kills-people?utm_source=arnoldspumpclub.schwarzenegger.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=how-to-elevate-your-mind

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5443421/

    https://www.fda.gov/media/140394/download

    https://www.nourishwithkristin.com/blog/raw-milk-history

    https://foodpolicyforthought.com/2014/05/06/the-history-of-raw-milk-and-pasteurization/

    https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-science-science-everywhere-you-asked/who-first-suggested-milk-be-pasteurized-make-it-safer-consumption

    https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/as/as-612-w.pdf

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/10/25/onions-salmonella-recall/

    https://www.tiktok.com/@paulsaladinomd2/video/7151475682936245550?q=raw%20milk&t=1697747104293

    https://www.tiktok.com/@healthanie/video/7271751825215343914?q=raw%20milk&t=1697747104293

    https://www.tiktok.com/@sammyllacey/video/7239126493102738734?q=raw%20milk&t=1697747104293 lies

    https://www.capitalpress.com/state/oregon/oregon-scraps-cafo-waiver-for-personal-raw-milk-production/article_3dd027a6-2c08-11ee-87c3-cfdb4af4b5a4.html

    https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1026&context=healthmatrix

    http://extension.msstate.edu/publications/differences-between-organic-and-conventional-cow%E2%80%99s-milk#:~:text=Dairy%20farms%20that%20sell%20milk,not%20treated%20with%20supplemental%20hormones.

    https://www.latimes.com/business/la-xpm-2011-aug-04-la-fi-milk-raid-20110804-story.html

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/30/raw-deal

    https://la.eater.com/2022/11/29/23483129/secret-mexican-ranch-parties-pajaretes-raw-milk-cocktails-los-angeles-california-feature

    https://www.cheeseprofessor.com/blog/buffalo-milk-and-cheese-in-america

    https://www.mariasbulacansweets.com/product-page/carabao-s-milk-limited-availability

    https://morseyscreamery.com/

    https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/02/20/387558373/why-some-states-want-to-legalize-raw-milk-sales

    https://www.givesendgo.com/G3NZH

    https://www.thelancasterpatriot.com/amos-miller-seeks-compromise-on-farm-case-as-tucker-carlson-takes-up-his-struggle/

    https://getrawmilk.com/content/amos-miller-food-club-charges

    https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/embattled-amish-farmers-saga-with-usda-becomes-grist-for-conservative-media/article_ad97b98e-2630-11ed-bf68-172014e8a0c1.html

    https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/lancaster-county-farmer-amos-miller-makes-30-000-payment-under-agreement-with-feds/article_50afdfe2-8ba9-11ed-9017-83da128dccdc.html

    https://www.thefp.com/p/raw-milk/comments#comment-11807602

    https://www.rawmilkinstitute.org/updates/letter-to-medical-professionals-about-raw-milk#:~:text=Raw%20milk%20has%20superior%20nutrition,immune%20system%20and%20gastrointestinal%20tract

    https://www.fda.gov/media/140394/download

    https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-science-science-everywhere-you-asked/who-first-suggested-milk-be-pasteurized-make-it-safer-consumption

    https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2023/Q4/dry-surface-foodborne-pathogens-under-scrutiny-at-purdue.html

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/dining/food-marketing-ozempic-era.html

    21 min
  • 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: Meat raffles and Snickers salads with Ben Mandelker

    IG: Black Food Fridays

    TikTok: Black Food Fridays

    Citizen Better

    Can Food Be Political?

    Who Made the Potato Salad

    YakaMein

    Ramen by Ra

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    Music: Can You Help Me - Jesse Johnson

    Sources:

    Charleston Magazine

    Washington Post, 2

    James Beard Foundation

    Trademark Office

    Refrigerated Frozen Food

    Salon

    Soul Food Scholar, 2

    Chicago Reader

    Roanoke Times

    Medill News Service

    Waterloo Region Record

    47 min
  • 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

    Atlas Obscura

    56 min
  • 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

    Science Direct

    1 hr 2 min
  • 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

    Sources:

    First We Feast

    "Identification of the Yellow Skin Gene Reveals a Hybrid Origin of the Domestic Chicken"

    37 min

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