Special Sauce with Ed Levine
Serious Eats' podcast Special Sauce enables food lovers everywhere to eavesdrop on an intimate conversation about food and life between host and Serious Eats founder Ed Levine and his well-known/famous friends and acquaintances both in and out of the food culture.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 420
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Celebrating Colombia with Author Mariana Velásquez and Kenji Lopez-Alt
On this week’s Special Sauce, we’re joined by Colombiana author Mariana Velásquez who talks about the incredible cultural and culinary diversity of her beloved native country. Plus, Kenji shares his …
00:46:48 |
Fri 06 Aug 2021
Katie Quinn and Kenji Lopez-Alt on Fermentation
On this episode of Special Sauce, we’re joined by the incredible youtuber, podcaster and Cheese, Wine and Bread author Katie Quinn who says that metaphorically speaking, people ferment just like chee…
01:04:50 |
Fri 23 Jul 2021
Author Reem Kassis on Palestinian Cooking, Plus Kenji on Making Falafel at Home
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, we’re joined by Reem Kassis, the thought provoking author of The Palestinian Table and her new book, The Arabesque Table. Plus, Kenji gives us some helpful ti…
00:56:33 |
Fri 09 Jul 2021
NY State Senator Jessica Ramos, Plus Kenji on his Wife's Favorite Colombian Dish
On this week's Special Sauce, we're joined by NY State Senator and Colombian-American Jessica Ramos who talks about her fearless approach to food activism as she fights for both her diverse constitue…
00:53:19 |
Fri 25 Jun 2021
Susie Essman on Pandemic Cooking and Comedy
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, we’re joined by the brilliant and hilarious comedian, actor, writer and producer Susie Essman. Essman explains how her pandemic cooking increased her husbands…
00:29:09 |
Fri 11 Jun 2021
Chef Nina Compton on Women of Color in Restaurant Kitchens & the dire situation in her native St. Lucia, Kenji on Jerk Chicken
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce we’re joined by Chef Nina Compton who talks about her experience working in fine dining as a woman of color, how her restaurants have grappled with the pandemi…
00:55:45 |
Fri 28 May 2021
Nigella Lawson As You've Never Heard Her, Plus Kenji Gives Her Major Props
On this week's episode of Special Sauce legendary food writer and television cook Nigella Lawson gets real about both her new book "Cook, Eat, Repeat," and the remarkable arc of her life and career. …
00:54:46 |
Fri 14 May 2021
Rodney Scott & Lolis Eric Elie on BBQ And Fathers & Sons, Plus Kenji’s Pork Shoulder
On this week’s Special Sauce, we’re joined by the great pit master and James Beard Award-winning chef Rodney Scott and his coauthor Lolis Eric Elie talking about their new book "Rodney Scott's World …
01:02:06 |
Fri 30 Apr 2021
Lolis Eric Elie on New Orleans food & diversity in Hollywood, Kenji on Red Beans & Rice
On this week's episode of Special Sauce, we're joined by TV and food writer Lolis Eric Elie who dishes on diversity -- or the lack thereof -- in Hollywood and tells us about the joys of eating in and…
00:57:07 |
Fri 16 Apr 2021
Fast Food: Good and/or Evil with Marcia Chatelain, Adam Chandler & Kenji
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, we continue our deep dive into the world of fast food. This time Franchise Author Marcia Chatelain, Drive-Thru Dreams Author Adam Chandler, and Kenji discuss…
00:39:37 |
Fri 02 Apr 2021
Marcia Chatelain, Adam Chandler, Bill Oakley and Kenji Lopez-Alt on Fast Food
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, we ponder the highs and the lows of fast food culture with Marcia Chatelain, Georgetown University Professor of history and African American studies and autho…
00:47:58 |
Fri 19 Mar 2021
Special Sauce: Mashama Bailey & Johno Morisano On the Birth of The Grey
When the ultra-talented chef Mashama Bailey collaborated with first-time restaurateur John Morisano to open The Grey in an old abandoned Greyhound bus depot in Savannah Georgia, they knew that their …
00:48:37 |
Fri 05 Mar 2021
Cookbook Author Grace Young on Saving Chinatown & Wok Therapy
On this week's Special Sauce we talk to Grace Young, renowned Chinese cookbook author, self-described wok therapist, and New York Chinatown advocate during the Pandemic #SaveChineseRestaurants. Plus…
01:04:17 |
Fri 19 Feb 2021
Special Sauce: Jessica Harris, Marcus Samuelsson & Kenji on Fries
On this week's episode of Special Sauce we celebrate one of the greatest food writers, Jessica Harris, who introduced many of us to the food of the African Diaspora. Jessica talks about her new book …
00:52:32 |
Fri 05 Feb 2021
Special Sauce: Two Food Writers on Surviving Covid & Kenji Offers a Comfort Soup Recipe
On this week’s episode, we talked with Washington Post food writer Tim Carman and his wife, spirits writer Carrie Allen, about their scary battle with the Coronavirus and the lasting impact it has ha…
00:39:10 |
Fri 22 Jan 2021
Special Sauce: A Restaurateur's Harrowing Yet Hopeful Covid-19 Story
On this week's Special Sauce, host Ed Levine talks to Brooklyn restaurateur (BK Jani) Sibte Hassan. Hassan contracted the Coronavirus in April, and his long road (including a 12 day stint in the hosp…
00:44:47 |
Fri 08 Jan 2021
Holiday Baking with Kenji Lopez-Alt, Amanda Mack and Adam Ragusea.
This week, host Ed Levine is joined by the Baltimore-based baker Amanda Mack, who defied the odds when she opened up her family-inspired bakery, Crust By Mack, in the middle of the pandemic. Then, fo…
00:46:34 |
Wed 23 Dec 2020
Special Sauce: Kenji on His Children's Book, Cookbook, and Gift Giving This Year
Kenji Lopez-Alt tells all about his new New York Times best seller children's book Every Night is Pizza Night on this week's episode of Special Sauce.
It turns out that for Kenji writing a 48 page…
00:53:14 |
Fri 11 Dec 2020
Special Sauce: Kenji, Jamelle Bouie on Thanksgiving vs. the Pandemic
Special Sauce, Serious Eats founder Ed Levine's podcast, is back to stay (with new theme music, no less) with a Thanksgiving episode that explores the seemingly antithetical nature of the pandemic an…
00:53:55 |
Mon 23 Nov 2020
Special Sauce: Kenji on Salting Vegetables; Farmer Maggie Cheney on CSAs and Social Justice
Much has been written during the pandemic about the increased popularity of community supported agriculture, commonly referred to as CSA. On this week's Special Sauce, we had a far-reaching conversat…
00:42:12 |
Thu 30 Jul 2020
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