by Katherine Spiers "Continuing the hibachi/teppanyaki journey from last week! This profile of the founder of Benihana, Rocky Aoki, is interesting, and it features my favorite restaurant critic (and total, unabashed shill), Clementine Paddleford." Read the article here: Roasting Cocktail Weiners on the Hibachi iTunes • [...]
by Katherine Spiers "I recently noticed that people often use “hibachi” and “teppanyaki” interchangeably, especially when talking about Benihana-style restaurants where diners sit at the griddle and the cook puts on a show with onion towers and flying ingredients. Technically, that is teppanyaki." Read the article here: Hibachi [...]
by Katherine Spiers "After all that hubbub, David Chang has announced he will no longer be pursuing trademark protection for “chili crunch.” It’s so wild that Momofuku thought its cease and desists would be received differently than they were." Read the article here: Cultivated Chicken; Japanese 7-11 [...]
by Katherine Spiers "In January of last year PBS NewsHour ran a segment that got me so worked up. The topic was the rising price of eggs, but that’s old news; what made me mad was the angle that NewsHour took. Because it was wrong, you see. And [...]
by Katherine Spiers " I worked in a sandwich shop in college and to this day I want this setup in my own kitchen: Come to find out, there used to be all kinds of refrigerator options on the market for residential use; having a prep fridge in [...]
by Katherine Spiers "One of those newsletters that send out gig listings included Smart Mouth in a round-up last week, even though I’ve announced I’m not taking pitches, it’s written at the bottom of every issue, and I wrote an entire edition about it. I’m displeased with the [...]
by Katherine Spiers - with a piece by Jennifer Henry "Did you hear about all the Napa Valley winery owners getting subpoenaed by the FBI? WHY are all these millionaires in at least a little bit of trouble? Something has gone wrong. I bet it has to do [...]
by Katherine Spiers " We had a discussion a while back in the Smart Mouth Patreon about raw milk, but since then it’s become an ever more popular topic. And, a few weeks ago, the farm I buy raw milk from had a recall. I came to raw [...]
by Katherine Spiers " We eat the way we do because the powers that be have us normies existing to serve the economy. So many of our processed foods were initially invented to feed the troops during wartime; some others were invented to make a profit off by-products. [...]
by Katherine Spiers " Here are your food talking points for the week " Read the article here: Food Fights & Bakeries iTunes • Google Podcasts • Stitcher • Spotify • RadioPublic • TuneIn • Libsyn Check out all of The Smart Mouth episodes here. If you [...]
