Thank you for all of these thoughtful and impeccably researched episodes!

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.

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!

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.

I found this podcast through Alie Ward, host of Ologies, and have since been unable to separate from it! I anxiously await every new episode, salivating by the end and full of knowledge and nostalgia. Learning about the history and colonization behind our most iconic dishes/ingredients, hearing the ways the host and guests pronounce or name regional/foreign dishes, and getting a glimpse of what (mainly) shapes North America’s (sometimes ignored) rich and vibrant culinary cultural heritage makes this so worth indulging in!

Fun foodie podcast with a good mix of history, humor, and the guests’s personal experiences.

Such great interviews and wonderful hidden history of the food you love.

Only listened to one episode- admittedly an old one for a specific interview but not definitively researched enough and just did not like the interview style /editorial direction. Maybe some of the history is correct but she doesn’t exude confidence, and thus I feel it is more of a “I heard this once” instead of integrated fun facts. The interview style is self-centered- i.e. instead of asking a chef about Super Bowl recipes she goes on a rant about how football is bad and hopes it turns into a good holiday and no future kids don’t even remember it was once a football event.

this podcast is for you! First of all, I’m just gonna say it: Katherine has one of the best voices in podcasting! I love history and I enjoy food, and every episode is such an interesting deep dive on topics I usually have never given thought to. The conversations are great and offer diverse perspectives. The guest’s passion for the topic at hand is matched by Katherine’s passion to research and drop all the knowledge! Consistently one of my faves!

Great interviews, great information. Every time I listen I learn something new. It’s fun, informative and makes you hungry for more.

I really like this podcast when the topic is completely food, when it strays into babbling left wing politics is when it goes down hill. The Iceland broccoli episode is a case in point. Crying about a president 20 years ago doesn’t really go with broccoli.

Audio food programs have seldom done much for me, since hearing is the only sense food doesn't stimulate. But Katherine's presentation is still quite sating. She's smart, funny and delightful. Each week she comes in well prepared on the topic. The guests on the episodes I've listened to have been interesting and engaging, and Katherine is quite capable as a host to allow them to shine and position them to be at their best. Listen and you'll see the Table Cakes crew are worthy your adoration,

Love this podcast; it’s super fun! She covers pretty much all food types. I think I like the longer episodes better because usually those delve into food history a little bit more, which I find fascinating and often wild. I do wish the host wasn’t so opposed to people who have different political views than her. This country is doomed if we don’t even want to try to come together at all. As she points out many times, she hopes to get rid of listeners of this podcast who are also Trump voters. Seems like a defeated way of thinking for either side... anyway... Fun in regards to food, though. Lol.

Love this podcast!! The host, Katherine, and her guests always have great rapport, and I love how she uses food as the centerpiece of the interviews, but the guests end up filling in the ‘food history’ aspect with their personal memories and stories AROUND the food in question. Always such a fun listen. Loving the new season!!

Host Katherine Spiers does her homework for every episode and does such an insightful job of showing all of the many different ways that food and culture intersect and how food has the power to change and shape regions and societies. I find myself learning so many new things about some foods that I thought I knew a lot about. Definitely worth a listen.

Easy listening and super interesting!! I always have fun facts to pull out at barbecues and dinner parties thanks to Katherine and her guests!

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I found this podcast as an ‘Ologies’ subscriber. I very much enjoyed the ‘Soda Pop’ trilogy, my vote for Ginger Ale was reposted in Instagram stories. Thank you.

Came across this podcast with guest Meatball! Fell in love since! Katherine is such a engaging and interesting host!

Great podcast, great chit chat, great history, just great. I have a large vocabulary

I like this podcast. Sometimes there’s a bit too much chit chat before they get to the subject at hand. I enjoy the guests but I never know who they are ( probably because of my age... I knew Jacque Pepin). Keep up the good work!

Smart Mouth is a wonderful podcast for anyone intereted in the beauty behind seemingly mundane foods, and for anyone eager to drill down into the food media scene at large. Highly recommend.

High brow, low brow, all the best and later for the rest. Katherine jas that great combo of excitement for the good stuff and healthy disrespect for the bad. My kind of podcast!

Then you’ve found the right place. I’ve listened to a couple episodes and this is so much fun and informative. Dives pretty deep. I’m subscribed!

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Katherine and her awesome guests are HILARIOUS. I laugh throughout the entirety of the episode, but somehow always end up learning a ton! They're sneaky with the education, but upfront with the entertainment. Thanks for putting out such a wonderful show Katherine - keep up the great work!

The last few episodes with food people industry people in Santa Barbara were great! I didn’t know much about Santa Barbara before and had a preconceived notion of it being pretty wealthy all around. The episodes painted a different picture. Keep up the excellent work!

The informal nature of Katherine’s interviews leads to many delightful asides & anecdotes peppered throughout the episode. They always talk through the topic du jour, delving into origins, developments, and appropriations of the various dishes or foods being discussed.

... does a person who hates so many foods host a food podcast?

Katherine always tells me the why and how of my favorite foods!

I don’t get having on interesting, accomplished guests and then the host basically lectures *them* on a subject she seems to have looked up in Wikipedia just before the show. She has the air of an overindulged college freshman just home from school, lecturing the family with all her new ideas that every adult has long processed.

I enjoy this postcard so much! I like food, I like comedy, I like listening to things, it’s a win-win-win. The host, Katherine Spiers, is so great! And she a local PNWerner, so it’s fun to hear about her food experiences growing up in my city. The conversation is always wonderfully intelligent and respectful of the host and guest.

This is my favorite food podcast and I've been listening to it every week for the past year! Being a tTaurus, I love food and Smart Mouth is the perfect blend of funny & fascinating. Thank you Katherine, (and her guests) for teaching me more about food and for representing Los Angeles!

Katherine’s podcast is informative as well as entertaining. I look forward to each episode. Katherine does her research. I enjoy her interaction with her guest. Thank you for your creating a great podcast and sharing your vast knowledge about the food culture.

LOVE Smart Mouth! Katherine talks about the type of food I love in a way I can actually understand. It's informative, digestible (pun intended) and a delight to listen to!

I love getting to know Katherine and her guests through their conversations about what we eat and why we eat it. I've learned so much from listening to this podcast! I am often afraid to think about food because of cost and healthy scarcity and I now know that I can't afford not to think about what I am eating and who I am sharing it with.

First heard Katherine on Press Play with Madeline Brand and was amazed at how much more she knew about the Chinese food I grew up eating than I even I knew. She has the answers for all the food questions I didn't know I had.

Absolutely hilarious and interesting podcast. Listen to the episode with Sam Pancake and I’ve fallen in love with this show. I’ll definitely be back for more!

I started listening after hearing Katherine on the Fork Reporter. I listened to every available podcast last week and loved them all. Funny, intelligent, and just terrific. Between podcasts I'll be looking for Katherine's articles on the internet. Everyone should be listening.

Great hostess, entertaining guests, and interesting content. Been recommending this podcast to all my friends, having so much fun learning about food while laughing along with Katherine's natural witty banter with her guests.

Smart, well paced and informative. Smart Mouth is the best.

Smart Mouth is a witty, well-researched and funny journey into the origins of food. Katherine explores the essence of her guests through one favorite dish or snack, and dives into the cultural context and implications of these meals. If you're a food lover, or just enjoy learning about history, you'll really go bananas for Smart Mouth. You might even learn about bananas in the process!

A wonderful show which balances interview, information, and healthy portions of fun. I still feel like her name should be pronounced "Spears", but that's just me. Otherwise, Katherine and the podcast are outstanding!

This might be my new fav podcast bc she talks about good food and places to find good food while interviewing some heavy hitters like my the guy I want to change lives w , Anthony Bourdain among others . Every time I listen I find something out I didn't know about someone's culture or best Korean BBQ in LA . makes me wonder what else I don't know .. I can't wait to find out . Thanks Katherine !

I hope this pans out, because who the hell is going to take care of me when I am an old man? Dad

This podcast couldn't be more fun or informative. Katherine has great guests and an accessible conversational style. It's like listening to an audible food almanac, but way more fun! Do yourself a favor and lend her your ears so that you can pass of this knowledge as your own, and impress your peers at social gatherings of the box variety!

Katherine Spiers brings a commanding knowledge of the food world to the table, and she's more fun than a party-sized bucket of flan. I heartily recommend Smart Mouth to all my friends and acquaintances!

I was a huge fan of Katherines old podcast how it got in your mouth, was so so sad to see that end. But I am really enjoying this new endeavor, the format is fun, a more personal approach to food with brief history lessons from some great chefs, looking forward to many more episodes.

Katherine Spiers is so entertaining & intelligent, it’s a privilege to be a fly on the wall and get to listen to her talk with famous chefs i’m already obsessed with (omg marcus samuelsson omg)