Not From Concentrate

Catherine Smart

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Booking Overview

This is a food-focused interview show exploring cooking, creativity, ADHD, and the business and cultural realities surrounding food, with recurring conversations with chefs, cookbook authors, food writers, creators, and food entrepreneurs. Agencies could credibly pitch accomplished culinary professionals, cookbook authors, food-media founders, restaurant and hospitality leaders, and creative entrepreneurs with practical stories; booking difficulty is likely medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 36

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 47 subscribers

Instagram: 2.4k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Catherine Smart - Catherine Smart is a cook, writer, mother, and creative entrepreneur with ADHD.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Chefs, cookbook authors, food writers and editors, food-media founders, restaurant and hospitality operators, independent food-business owners, and creative entrepreneurs with substantial practical experience.
Required Achievements:  
Published cookbooks, Established culinary or hospitality careers, Founded or led food-media organizations, Built independent restaurants, markets, or food businesses, Recognized expertise in food culture, cooking, or creative entrepreneurship

Recent Guest Discussions

Ham El-Waylly - Home Cooking, Cultural Food Traditions, Grief, Family Recipes, ADHD, Creativity, And His Cookbook Hello, Home Cooking

Courtney E. Smith - Independent Food Media, Worker-owned Publishing, Subscriber-supported Journalism, Restaurant Coverage, Labor, Creative Entrepreneurship, And Building A Media Company

Zachary Baum - Small-business Development, Food Entrepreneurship, Independent Retail, Restaurants, Makers, Local Business Ecosystems, And Building Sustainable Community-oriented Commercial Spaces

Recent Topics

Food, Cooking, Adhd, Entrepreneurship

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Not From Concentrate
:

ADHD, Masking, and Letting Your Guard Down

July 21, 2026

In this solo episode of Not From Concentrate, Catherine Smart shares a personal essay about ADHD masking, embarrassment, and the effort of trying to seem easygoing, capable, and “normal.”She reflects on how sensitivity, people-pleasing, and a strong social radar can be exhausting—but can also make us thoughtful friends, generous hosts, and deeply caring people.This is a personal reflection on understanding old patterns with more compassion and learning when it might be okay to let your guard ...

Ham El-Waylly on Home Cooking, 90s Nostalgia, and Harnessing ADHD Powers in the Kitchen

July 14, 2026

On this episode of Not From Concentrate, Catherine Smart talks with chef and cookbook author Ham El-Waylly about the surprising journey that led him from fine dining back to the food that first shaped him.Raised between Egyptian, Bolivian, and Qatari cultures before building a career in New York restaurants, Ham shares how the sudden loss of his mother caused him to distance himself from the recipes he grew up with—and how reopening her handwritten recipe notebook during the pandemic helped h...

Courtney E. Smith on Ravenous and the Future of Independent Food Media

July 07, 2026

Courtney E. Smith joins Catherine Smart to talk about Ravenous, the new worker-owned food and culture publication founded by former Eater writers after a layoff.Courtney shares how the team built an independent media company from scratch, why they’re choosing subscriber support over VC money and branded content, and what it means to cover food, labor, restaurants, and culture with stronger ethics and sharper opinions.She and Catherine also talk about what’s missing from today’s food media lan...

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