Not From Concentrate

Catherine Smart

Booking Overview

This weekly food-focused interview show explores cooking, creativity, ADHD, parenting, and practical ways to make meals and ambitious lives more manageable, featuring chefs, authors, founders, educators, and other food-world professionals. Credible candidates include cookbook authors, chefs and restaurateurs, food entrepreneurs, sustainable-food leaders, and ADHD or executive-function experts; booking difficulty is medium because guests generally need established professional expertise, though not necessarily major mainstream celebrity.

Metrics

Episodes: 43

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

Publicly listed emails

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Host

Catherine Smart - Catherine Smart is a cook, writer, mother, and creative entrepreneur with ADHD who focuses on food, creativity, and making everyday life more manageable.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Chefs, cookbook authors, food writers, food and wellness founders, sustainable-food entrepreneurs, educators, and ADHD or executive-function specialists with practical expertise and a clear connection to cooking, family meals, creativity, or everyday routines.

Required Achievements:

Authored a cookbook or food publication, Founded a food, wellness, or local-food business, Built a restaurant group or other established food enterprise, Created an educational program, product, or resource related to cooking or executive function

Recent Guest Discussions

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

Erin Baumgartner - Local Food Systems, Sustainable Food Access, Predictive Analytics, Reducing Food Waste, Mission-driven Business, And Family Meals.

Trinity Mouzon Wofford - Cooking At Home, Convenience, Component Cooking, Building A Wellness Company, Entrepreneurship, And Writing A Cookbook While Becoming A Mother.

Will Gilson - Restaurant Leadership, ADHD, Delegation, Managing Creative Ambition, Team Building, Failure, And Sustainable Work Habits.

Sophie Mortner - Cooking And Executive Function, Task Management, Children's Independence, ADHD, And Reducing Chaos In The Kitchen.

Recent Topics

Adhd, Cooking, Food, Parenting, Entrepreneurship

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Not From Concentrate

Overcome Garden Overwhelm with Jess Zander of You Can Do It Gardening

September 08, 2026

Feeling overwhelmed by your garden? Garden coach Jess Zander of You Can Do It Gardening joins Catherine to make the whole thing feel more manageable—and much more fun.Jess explains how to prioritize garden projects, tackle invasive plants before they spread, choose native plants without becoming dogmatic, and make smart decisions about where and what to plant. She also shares why buying small plants can save money, how to divide perennials without being too precious, and why fall is one of th...

Grill Time and Letting Go of the Perfect Family Dinner with Noah Galuten

September 01, 2026

What if the best thing you could bring to family dinner wasn’t a perfectly cooked meal, but a better mood?Chef, cookbook author, and TV host Noah Galuten joins Catherine to talk about his new cookbook, Grill Time!, and why the grill deserves a place in your weeknight cooking routine. They discuss shopping according to what’s on sale, salting chicken or steak now and figuring out dinner later, and setting up groceries so they’re easier to use when your busy brain needs them.Noah also gets hone...

Back-to-School Lunches, Sheet-Pan Dinners, and Finding Joy in the Kitchen with Hillary Dixler Canavan

August 25, 2026

Back-to-School Lunches, Sheet-Pan Dinners, and Finding Joy in the Kitchen with Hillary Dixler CanavanHillary Dixler Canavan returns to Not From Concentrate as the show’s first repeat guest! Nearly one year after her first appearance, Hillary joins Catherine for a timely conversation about feeding our families, and ourselves, during the back-to-school rush.They talk about letting go of picture-perfect lunchboxes, choosing foods children will reliably eat at school, and adding joy without addin...

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