“There are a lot of hypebeasts running around, for sure.” 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 Extra Spicy  Soleil IG  Useful Smart Mouth merch! Use code shipshiphooray! for free shipping. Music: Jonathan Richman - Velvet Underground  Sources: Washington Post  Seattle Times  LA Times  Columbia Journalism Review 

“I was raised in a non-smoking section.” 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 Sunday Best  Adrienne IG  Useful Smart Mouth merch! Use code shipshiphooray! for free shipping. Music: Tommy James & The Shondells - Hanky Panky  Sources:  Cincinnati Enquirer  Cook's Info, 2  Atlas Obscura  Calas in New Orleans  We Will Shoot Back  Check out: Gayest Episode Ever

“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. 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: La Roux - Bulletproof  Check out: Gayest Episode Ever

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

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. Miss Kim Instagram  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: BTS - Dynamite  Check out: Gayest Episode Ever

Had you heard of the Acadians before? 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. Sources: 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  Check out: Gayest Episode Ever

He revolutionized the oyster bar - but his other, secret, work was more important. 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. Related episode: Diversity in Native American Food with Loretta Barrett Oden  Sources: Debra Freeman, Southern Grit  Smart Mouth  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  Check out: Gayest Episode Ever

Even the farmers say the Red Delicious is a bad fruit. 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. Sources: 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  Check out: Gayest Episode Ever

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"? 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. Related episodes: 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  Check out: Gayest Episode Ever

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.) 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. 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  Related Episodes/Articles: Breadlines and Famines with Jeremy Bowditch The Settlement Cook Book Prison Food with Danny Trejo Music: Dead Kennedys - A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch  Check out: Gayest Episode Ever