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Author: 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!
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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 Listen to Smart Mouth: iTunes • Google Podcasts • Pandora • Spotify • TuneIn • Libsyn • Amazon Music • Podurama 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. Katherine TikTok Smart Mouth newsletter Smart Mouth IG 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
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 Listen to Smart Mouth: iTunes • Google Podcasts • Pandora • Spotify • TuneIn • Libsyn • Amazon Music • Podurama 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. Katherine TikTok Smart Mouth newsletter Smart Mouth IG 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
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 Listen to Smart Mouth: iTunes • Google Podcasts • Pandora • Spotify • TuneIn • Libsyn • Amazon Music • Podurama 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. Katherine TikTok Smart Mouth newsletter Smart Mouth IG 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
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 Listen to Smart Mouth: iTunes • Google Podcasts • Pandora • Spotify • TuneIn • Libsyn • Amazon Music • Podurama 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. Katherine TikTok Smart Mouth newsletter Smart Mouth IG 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
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 Listen to Smart Mouth: iTunes • Google Podcasts • Pandora • Spotify • TuneIn • Libsyn • Amazon Music • Podurama 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. Katherine TikTok Smart Mouth newsletter Smart Mouth IG Music: Une Noix - Charles Trenet Sources: Cherokee Cooklore Serious Eats Slow Food USA USDA MPR News BBC USDA Agricultural Research Service
Raw Milk

Raw Milk

2024-04-1020:03

Do I drink it? Yes. Am I a sovereign citizen? Depends on my mood. (Written version here.) Listen to Smart Mouth: iTunes • Google Podcasts • Pandora • Spotify • TuneIn • Libsyn • Amazon Music 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. Katherine TikTok Smart Mouth newsletter Smart Mouth IG 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
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 Listen to Smart Mouth: iTunes • Google Podcasts • Pandora • Spotify • TuneIn • Libsyn • Amazon Music 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. Katherine TikTok Smart Mouth newsletter Smart Mouth IG 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
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  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. If you'd rather make a one-time gift, I'm on Venmo and PayPal. Katherine TikTok Smart Mouth newsletter Smart Mouth IG Music: Quiche Lorraine - The B-52s  Sources:  John Birdsall 1,2  Gastronomica  Slate  Eater  Atlas Obscura 
Crows. You gotta hand it to them. 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. If you'd rather make a one-time gift, I'm on Venmo and PayPal. Creature Feature  Secretly Incredibly Fascinating Podcast  Katherine TikTok Smart Mouth newsletter Smart Mouth IG 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 
A dream job and many dream fried chicken recipes. 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. If you'd rather make a one-time gift, I'm on Venmo and PayPal. Kung Pao & Beyond  Susan IG  Katherine TikTok Smart Mouth newsletter Smart Mouth IG Music: Salt - Ava Max  Sources: First We Feast  "Identification of the Yellow Skin Gene Reveals a Hybrid Origin of the Domestic Chicken"
There's no end of ways to tell the future. But most importantly: with cheese. 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. If you'd rather make a one-time gift, I'm on Venmo and PayPal. Kitchen Witch  Jennifer IG  Kitchen Witch IG  Katherine TikTok Smart Mouth newsletter Smart Mouth IG 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
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   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.   Want food stories from around the world? Subscribe to the Smart Mouth newsletter here. Drew on IG  • Drew on Twitter   Follow Smart Mouth: Newsletter • Instagram • Facebook • Katherine on Twitter   Listen to Smart Mouth:  iTunes • Google Podcasts • Spotify • RadioPublic • TuneIn • Libsyn  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 Fred Opie
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 Want food stories from around the world? Subscribe to the Smart Mouth newsletter here. Kim Twitter Kim IG Christmas with Kim-Joy Smart Mouth newsletter Smart Mouth IG Katherine Twitter Sources: History.com Martha Stewart NPR Christian Science Monitor Iceland.com Sweet Invention: A History of Dessert Listen on: iTunes Google Podcasts Spotify RadioPublic TuneIn Libsyn RSS
What is “childhood”? When was it invented? The same time as candy canes? Listen to Smart Mouth: iTunes • Google Podcasts • Pandora • Spotify • RadioPublic • TuneIn • Libsyn • Amazon Music Niccole on IG • Niccole on Twitter Follow Smart Mouth: Newsletter • Instagram • Facebook Katherine TikTok Music: Last Christmas by Wham! Related Episodes: Christmas Cookies with Kim-Joy Roman Food with Erica Firpo Spaghetti Carbonara with Niccole Thurman Sources: The Imperfect Child Child labor and the division of labor in the early English cotton mills Adolescence and Youth in Early Modern England ‘A Prospect of Flowers’: Concepts of Childhood and Female Youth in Seventeenth-Century British Culture Time New York Times Snopes Today I Found Out
“Christmas candy” is just vibes. So what's your favorite? Related episodes: Peppermint with Niccole Thurman  Christmas cookies with Kim-Joy  Maraschino cherries with Courtney Nichols  Legacy & circus peanuts with Laurie Woolever  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. Candy is Dandy  Candy is Dandy TikTok  Katherine TikTok Smart Mouth newsletter Smart Mouth IG Music: Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee  Sources:  candystore.com 1, 2  CBC  Princeton  Tasting Table 
This thing's so weird. 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. Katherine TikTok Smart Mouth newsletter Smart Mouth IG Music: Mashed Potatoes - James Brown  Sources: Reagan Library 1, 2  White House History 1, 2  Washington Post 
How to go from eating soup to writing a book about it. Sohn-Mat: Recipes and Flavors of Korean Home Cooking  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. Tien IG  Katherine TikTok Smart Mouth newsletter Smart Mouth IG Music: Next Level - aespa  Sources: Toronto Star  BBC  SteakSchool.com  The Kitchn  Maui Ribs  Tablet 
Are women compared to desserts because they're sweet? Because they're unimportant? And why was everyone so weird about Liv Tyler? Related: Om Ali  Full "sugar and spice"poem  Ladies Who Lunch: Episode/Transcript  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. Valerie IG  Valerie Confections  Katherine TikTok Smart Mouth newsletter Smart Mouth IG Music: Crazy - Aerosmith  Sources: Stanford/Rebaking the Pie  GrubHub 
When two coastal elites explore Midwestern food. Related: Hotdish with Kristen Meinzer   Tater tots   Elizabeth Gilbert's meat raffle    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. Ben IG  Amanda Rettke IG  Katherine TikTok Smart Mouth newsletter Smart Mouth IG Music: Controversy - Prince  Sources: Craig Daily Press  Reddit  Allrecipes  Merriam-Webster  Dictionary.com  Britannica  I Am Baker 
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
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Bea

I just don't understand why they would do this interview with this guy? if they wanted to talk about veganism they should've talked with someone who actually knows what it is about, and if they wanted to do an interview with that guy, then talk about health food, since he seems to be really into it.. a lot of things they mentioned were just really ignorant, that man is barely plant based, nothing more, those 'hippie' vegans that don't use stuff like wool, are vegans that don't want to exploit animals and reduce their impact as much as possible, it has nothing to do with wanting to be 'special' or 'different'. and also, sheep are not here to give us wool?? what kinda logic is that? we bread them to a point where they have to be sheared and there are a lot of problems that come with that as well. but bottomline is still, that we're exploiting them... there is a lot more in this, that is just plain wrong, and I wish they would actually give us content with people that know what they're ta

Aug 10th
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Dana Gaines

This episode made me cry. Thank you so much for this interview!

Apr 4th
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