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.

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Update frequency: every 7 days
Average duration: 35 minutes
Episodes: 420
Years Active: 2015 - 2025

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Special Sauce: Kenji on Cooking for His Kid, and Maangchi on Becoming a YouTube Sensation [1/2]

Maangchi. Maangchi. Maangchi! Need I say more? On this week's Special Sauce I had a chance to sit down with YouTube cooking sensation Maangchi, who, in addition to being an inspiration to all of us…

00:42:19 | Thu 23 Jan 2020

Special Sauce: Sean Brock on the Distinction Between Happiness and Success [2/2]

On this week's far-ranging Special Sauce we cover a lot of territory- and I mean a lot- of territory. We've got Sean Brock on the highs and lows of an extended stay in rehab, and the joys of parentho…

00:40:13 | Thu 16 Jan 2020

Special Sauce: Chef Sean Brock on the Perils of Working Too Hard [1/2]

On the first new Special Sauce episode of 2020, we go deep and wide on a whole range of topics. First the insanely talented chef Sean Brock, whose new book, South: Essential Recipes and New Explorati…

00:38:13 | Thu 09 Jan 2020

Ask Special Sauce: Kenji and Stella Answer Your Holiday Questions

This year, my wife and I managed to get through Thanksgiving without any major mishaps or blow-ups. That domestic and culinary tranquility was thanks (at least in part) to the answers Kenji and Stell…

00:36:52 | Thu 19 Dec 2019

Special Sauce: Kenji on Eggs, Plus Wisdom From Two Master Bakers [2/2]

In part two of my conversation with the extraordinary bakers Amy Scherber of Amy's Bread and Melissa Weller of High Street on Hudson, we take a deep dive into what makes a proper (and I would say per…

00:57:07 | Fri 13 Dec 2019

Special Sauce: Kenji on Pizza Dough; Amy Scherber and Melissa Weller on the Business of Baking [1/2]

This week's Special Sauce episode unintentionally turned into a carb fest. Although I knew I was having on a couple of the finest bakers in the land- Amy Scherber, the founder of Amy's Bread, and Mel…

00:31:31 | Thu 05 Dec 2019

Ask Special Sauce: Kenji and Stella Answer Your Thanksgiving FAQs

I don't know about the rest of you Thanksgiving hosts out there, but my wife and I tend to become increasingly stressed as the holiday approaches each year. On more than one occasion, I've reached ou…

00:37:40 | Thu 21 Nov 2019

Special Sauce: Kenji on Competitive Cooking; Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying on Being Gaijin [2/2]

On this week's Special Sauce, we take a deep dive into The Gaijin Cookbook: Japanese Recipes from a Chef, Father, Eater, and Lifelong Outsider, the new cookbook from Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying. We p…

00:46:17 | Thu 14 Nov 2019

Special Sauce: Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying on The Gaijin Cookbook [1/2]

Sometimes, my Special Sauce interviews are the best way to catch up with old friends and colleagues. I was reminded of that when Chris Ying and Ivan Orkin, co-authors of The Gaijin Cookbook: Japanese…

00:42:21 | Thu 07 Nov 2019

Special Sauce: Kenji on Browning Meat, Adam Chandler on Colonel Sanders's Wild Side [2/2]

On Special Sauce this week, I had the pleasure of continuing my deep dive into the history of fast food with Adam Chandler, the author of Drive-Thru Dreams. But before I tell you more about that conv…

00:37:32 | Thu 31 Oct 2019

Special Sauce: Kenji on Cooking With Fish Sauce and Adam Chandler on Fast Food [1/2]

This week's Special Sauce episode kicks off with Serious Eater Marc Lampert asking Kenji about the process of cooking with ingredients packed with umami. "Does umami cook out like an acid would?" Mar…

00:33:07 | Thu 24 Oct 2019

Special Sauce: Kenji on Freezing Chicken, Simone Tong on Making Mixian [2/2]

This week's episode of Special Sauce kicks off with our new culinary Q&A segment, "Ask Kenji." At the behest of listener Dave Shorr, Kenji lays down the law on the best way to freeze chicken. It’s a …

00:37:06 | Thu 17 Oct 2019

Special Sauce: Kenji on Cooking With Starch, Simone Tong on the Ingredient She Hates [1/2]

This week's Special Sauce kicks off with our new culinary Q&A segment, "Ask Kenji." This time around, Kenji schools us and serious eater Paul Anderson on the differences between cornstarch and flour …

00:34:16 | Thu 10 Oct 2019

Special Sauce 2.0: Kenji on Grilling Naan and Nicholas Morgenstern on Sundaes [2/2]

For the first segment of this episode of Special Sauce 2.0, Kenji takes a question from serious eater Phil on how to make naan in a Big Green Egg. It starts with our grilled naan recipe and ends with…

00:44:26 | Thu 03 Oct 2019

Special Sauce: Introducing Special Sauce 2.0, with guest Nick Morgenstern [1/2]

This week Serious Eaters get to see the all-new Special Sauce format we've cooked up for the new season. Every episode of Special Sauce 2.0 will start off with "Ask Kenji," a brief section in which J…

00:33:26 | Fri 20 Sep 2019

Special Sauce: Author Tom Roston on Post-9/11 New York as Victim and Survivor [2/2]

Part two of my at times emotionally overwhelming interview with Tom Roston, author of The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York,…

00:24:00 | Fri 20 Sep 2019

Special Sauce: Tom Roston on the Untold Stories of Windows on the World [1/2]

No matter where you were when the two planes hit the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, you were profoundly affected by the events of that day. And if you, like me, were at all involved in the food c…

00:26:51 | Fri 13 Sep 2019

Special Sauce: Soleil Ho on Representation in Food Media [2/2]

In part two of my thought-provoking interview with San Francisco Chronicle restaurant critic Soleil Ho, we dove right into how she thinks about restaurant criticism. Soleil explained, "I like to th…

00:37:46 | Thu 29 Aug 2019

Special Sauce: Soleil Ho on Her Journey From Quantum Physics to Racist Sandwich [1/2]

Like a great deal of food media in America, the world of restaurant criticism has a long history of hiring white writers and closing its doors to people of color. So it was exciting to see the San F…

00:25:15 | Thu 22 Aug 2019

Special Sauce: Matt Rodbard and Max Falkowitz on What's Next in Food Media [2/2]

In part two of Ed Levine's conversation with Max Falkowitz and Matt Rodbard, the three discuss how Falkowitz and Rodbard got started in food media and how their careers evolved. Falkowitz begins by…

00:36:58 | Thu 15 Aug 2019

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