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Not From Concentrate

Catherine Smart

Booking Overview

This food-focused interview podcast explores practical home cooking, family meals, creativity, and reducing kitchen stress, with recurring guests including chefs, cookbook authors, food writers, creators, and other food professionals. Agencies could credibly pitch chefs, culinary authors, food entrepreneurs, family-meal experts, and professionals with useful perspectives on accessible cooking or creative routines; booking difficulty is medium because the show mixes accessible specialists with established authors, television personalities, and culinary figures.

Metrics

Episodes: 48

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1,000 - 10,000

Listener location: USA

YouTube: 47 subscribers

Instagram: 2.6k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

hello@catherinesmart.com

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Host

Catherine Smart - Cook, writer, mother, and creative entrepreneur who explores practical cooking, creativity, and ways to make kitchen life more manageable for people with ADHD.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Chefs, cookbook authors, food writers, culinary creators, garden or food educators, and specialists with practical expertise in family meals, accessible cooking, or creative routines.
Required Achievements:  
Published cookbooks or food writing, Established culinary, gardening, or food-focused businesses, Television or streaming appearances, Newsletters, classes, guides, or other educational platforms

Recent Guest Discussions

Robyn Henderson - Simplifying Family Dinners, Seasonal Cooking, Private-chef Business Growth, Pricing, Farm Stands, And Managing Kitchen Pressure

Claudette Zepeda - Mexican Cooking, Pantry-based Flavor, Creative Freedom, Family Meals, Audhd, Single Motherhood, And Reducing Kitchen Overwhelm

Jess Zander - Managing Garden Overwhelm, Native Plants, Low-effort Gardening, Fall Planting, And Gardening As A Way To Calm A Busy Brain

Noah Galuten - Weeknight Grilling, Family Dinners, Cooking With Children, Creative Ruts, Cookbook Publishing, Television, And Letting Go Of Perfection

Hillary Dixler Canavan - School Lunches, Sheet-pan Dinners, Cooking With Children, Practical Kitchen Skills, Meal Planning, And Finding Creativity Through Constraints

Recent Topics

Food, Home Cooking, Family Meals, Adhd, Cookbooks

Episodes

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

Song Exploder's Hrishikesh Hirway on Creative Breakthroughs, Home Cooking, and His New Album

October 13, 2026

What do a perfect cookie, your mom’s cooking, and a song you can’t stop listening to have in common?This week, I’m joined by musician Hrishikesh Hirway, creator of Song Exploder and co-host of Home Cooking with Samin Nosrat. We talk about the chole and puri he requested for every birthday, the mango pie mishap that inspired an ice cream collaboration with Salt & Straw, and why he once asked a baker to make thousands of cookies for a live audience.We also get into the complicated business ...

From Olive Garden to a James Beard Award with Chef Evan Hennessey

October 06, 2026

What takes a cook from scrubbing chowder pots and working at Olive Garden to winning a James Beard Award? For chef Evan Hennessey, the path led through some of the country’s most acclaimed kitchens — and back home to Dover, New Hampshire.This week, I’m joined by the chef behind Stages at One Washington, The Living Room, and Topolino to talk about building a tiny tasting-menu restaurant in his hometown, finding inspiration in New England’s farms and fisheries, and why great food doesn’t requir...

What Makes a Recipe Work? With Recipe Tester Laura Manzano

September 29, 2026

What makes a recipe work — and when is an extra step actually worth the effort?This week, I’m joined by Laura Manzano, the recipe tester behind my forthcoming cookbook, Not From Concentrate. Laura grew up working in her dad’s restaurants, honed her skills in the Martha Stewart test kitchens, and built a freelance career helping cookbook authors make their recipes clearer, more reliable, and better suited to the people cooking them.We go behind the scenes of my cookbook to talk about what reci...

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Frequently asked questions

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Not From Concentrate
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How do I get in touch with Not From Concentrate?

Not From Concentrate is hosted by Catherine Smart. Its publicly listed email is hello@catherinesmart.com. For guest bookings, the host or producer is usually the best person to reach. Podseeker helps you find direct host and producer contacts and pitch from your own inbox.

What is the email for Not From Concentrate?

The publicly listed email for Not From Concentrate: hello@catherinesmart.com.

How many listeners does Not From Concentrate have?

Podseeker estimates Not From Concentrate reaches 1,000 to 10,000 listeners per episode. Only the publisher has exact numbers.

Who is an ideal guest for Not From Concentrate?

Not From Concentrate typically books rising experts. Typical guest background: Chefs, cookbook authors, food writers, culinary creators, garden or food educators, and specialists with practical expertise in family meals, accessible cooking, or creative routines. Common among recent guests: Published cookbooks or food writing; Established culinary, gardening, or food-focused businesses; Television or streaming appearances. Recent guests include Robyn Henderson, Claudette Zepeda, and Jess Zander.

How hard is it to get booked on Not From Concentrate?

Medium. Guests usually need solid credentials in the topic and an idea that fits the show.

What topics does Not From Concentrate cover?

Recent episodes cover Food, Home Cooking, Family Meals, Adhd, and Cookbooks. Pitch an idea tied to one of these topics and mention a recent episode.

Publicly listed emails

hello@catherinesmart.com

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