Smart Mouth

By Katherine Spiers / TableCakes Productions

An addictively illuminating, often hilarious, conversational podcast about the surprising histories

behind the foods we love.

Hosted by independent journalist and food anthropologist, Katherine Spier... more

4.8

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The podcast currently has 343 episodes available.

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March 30, 2022 History of Criticism with Soleil Ho
"There are a lot of hypebeasts running around, for sure."

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Music: Jonathan Richman - Velvet Underground

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Washington Post

Seattle Times

LA Times

Columbia Journalism Review
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March 16, 2022 Hanky Pankies with Adrienne Cheatham
"I was raised in a non-smoking section."
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Music: Tommy James & The Shondells - Hanky Panky

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Cincinnati Enquirer

Cook's Info, 2

Atlas Obscura

Calas in New Orleans

We Will Shoot Back

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March 02, 2022 Regarding Reviews with Dale Talde
"You don't like my vaccine policy. OK, go fuck yourself."

How chef and TV star Dale Talde changed his restaurant's pay structure (I hadn't heard of this before) and why he doesn't do take-out. And who goes out for lunch on Valentine's Day.

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Music: La Roux - Bulletproof

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February 16, 2022 Nora Ephron's 'Critics in the World of the Rising Souffle (Or is it the Rising Meringue?)'
Trying something new: I loved this catty essay so much I just read it to you. Find the original essay here. "Wallflower at the Orgy," where it also appeared, is here. Listen to Smart Mouth: iTunes • Google Podcasts • Stitcher • Spotify • RadioPublic • TuneIn • Libsyn Check out all our episodes so far here. If you like, pledge a buck or two on Patreon. Smart Mouth newsletter Smart Mouth IG Useful Smart Mouth merch! Use code shipshiphooray! for free shipping. Music: Paul Mauriat - Love Is Blue Check out: Gayest Episode Ever
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February 02, 2022 Running a Restaurant Now, & Korean History, with Ji Hye Kim
Ji Hye Kim on why her Korean restaurant has banh mi on the menu, the very short history of chilis in Korean cuisine, and the common thread linking restaurant work and hospital work.

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Music: BTS - Dynamite

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January 19, 2022 Acadia: History & Food
Had you heard of the Acadians before?

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Simon Thibault

Lenore Newman

Acadian Museum of the University of Moncton

Acadian Identity: The Creation and Re-Creation of Community (PDF)

The Acadian Kitchen: Recipes from Then and Now

The Perils and Possibilities of Wartime Neutrality on the Edges of Empire: Iroquois and Acadians between the French and British in North America, 1744–1760

A Century of Acadian Culture

Canadian Geographic

Music: Angèle Arsenault - Évangeline Acadian Queen

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January 05, 2022 Thomas Downing & Oyster History
He revolutionized the oyster bar - but his other, secret, work was more important.

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Diversity in Native American Food with Loretta Barrett Oden

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Debra Freeman, Southern Grit

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Splendid Table

The Virginian-Pilot

The Old Salt Blog

The Black Gotham Digital Archive

Union Oyster House

Restauranting Through History

Oxford Companion to Food

American Heritage

New York Times

The Gotham Center for New York History

Foodtimeline.org

America's Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking

History of Food

Music: Hard Times Come Again No More, Stephen Foster

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December 29, 2021 Apples & the Downfall of the Red Delicious
Even the farmers say the Red Delicious is a bad fruit.

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Purdue University (PDF)

Washington Post

The Atlantic

New York Times

Etymology Online

Apples of North America

Guide to Cultivated Plants

Music: New Riders of the Purple Sage, Garden of Eden

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December 22, 2021 Coquito and Canned Goods
First of all, this is not Puerto Rican egg nog. Secondly, it's made mostly with canned goods, which speaks to how Puerto Rico adapted to being a U.S. territory. Did you know that "Wars Are Fought With Food"?

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Egg Nog with Drew Mackie

Spam with Helen Hong

Sources:

Twitter thread

cookingcuban.com

Punch magazine

Britannica

Meryenda

NPR

BBC

CommunityScience.com

Taste

Eater

Feeding the colonial subject: Nutrition and public health in Puerto Rico

Agricultural decline and food import dependency in Puerto Rico: A historical perspective on the outcomes of postwar farm and food policies

Puerto Rico: The trials of the oldest colony in the world

Eating Puerto Rico: A history of food, culture, and identity

Factories and food stamps: The Puerto Rican model of development

Music: Roy Brown Ramirez , Boricua en la Luna

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December 15, 2021 Why Are U.S. School Lunches Like This?
School-provided lunches have existed in the US for about 130 years, if you count the early days when private welfare groups handled the gig. School lunches have never been paused since they started, but the impetus for providing them has varied widely. (And they're the reason "white people food is bland" is such a compelling concept.)

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Sources:

Foodtimeline.org

New York Times

Pacific Standard magazine

National Education Association

US Government Accountability Office (PDF)

School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program

97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement

Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet

Feeding the Family

The American and His Food

Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in America

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Breadlines and Famines with Jeremy Bowditch

The Settlement Cook Book

Prison Food with Danny Trejo

Music: Dead Kennedys - A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch

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