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: Matt Rodbard and Max Falkowitz on Becoming Food Writers [1/2]

In the next two episodes of Special Sauce, we take a deep dive into the challenges and triumphs of building a career in food media. I invited former Serious Eats editor/current contributor Max Falkow…

00:30:07 | Thu 08 Aug 2019

Special Sauce: Lazarus Lynch on Writing Son of a Southern Chef [2/2]

In part two of Ed Levine's conversation with Lazarus Lynch, who goes by more titles than any 25-year-old has any reasonable expectation to have (cookbook author, performer, singer...the list is incre…

00:29:28 | Thu 01 Aug 2019

Special Sauce: Lazarus Lynch on Cooking on Camera and Being Okay With Who You Are [1/2]

Singer, author (Son of a Southern Chef), and food personality Lazarus Lynch is not your typical cookbook writer or social media star. As an openly gay young Black man, Lynch is blazing his own trail …

00:27:39 | Fri 26 Jul 2019

Special Sauce: Alvin Cailan on What “American Food” Means in 2019 [2/2]

In part 2 of my extraordinary chat with chef-restaurateur-activist Alvin Cailan, we delved deeply into his socio-political motivations, but we still managed to fit in some laughs. Cailan says he's …

00:29:19 | Thu 18 Jul 2019

Special Sauce: Eggslut’s Alvin Cailan on Ruckus-Causing as a Career Path [1/2]

Every now and then on Special Sauce, I just hit it off with a guest, feeling immediately as if I've known them all my life. That's what happened when I talked with Eggslut founder, chef-restaurateur,…

00:29:32 | Thu 11 Jul 2019

Special Sauce Live, Ed Levine Edition: Serious Eats Lives! [2/2]

Welcome back for the second part of Special Sauce with Ed Levine, featuring Ed Levine! This week we pick up where we left off, with Danny Meyer, CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group and Ed's longt…

00:28:33 | Wed 03 Jul 2019

Special Sauce Live, Ed Levine Edition: A Serious Eater Is Born! [1/2]

At the end of every week, Ed Levine- a.k.a. Serious Eats founder, a.k.a. Serious Eats overlord, a.k.a. "missionary of the delicious," a.k.a. Ed "The Good Ones Eat Through the Pain" Levine- hosts inti…

00:27:44 | Thu 27 Jun 2019

Special Sauce: Nik Sharma on the Kitchen as Laboratory [2/2]

This week, in part two of my conversation with chef and food writer Nik Sharma, we dug into the science-based approach to cooking that informs his terrific new cookbook, Seasons: Big Flavors, Beautif…

00:31:23 | Thu 20 Jun 2019

Special Sauce: Nik Sharma on the Stories Told by Seasoning [1/2]

Cookbook author (Seasons: Big Flavors, Beautiful Food), blogger (A Brown Table), and newspaper columnist (A Brown Kitchen) Nik Sharma made the perfect Special Sauce guest. Why? He has a great, dramat…

00:32:38 | Fri 14 Jun 2019

Special Sauce: Priya Krishna on Cooking and Being "Indian-ish" [2/2]

In part two of my delightful conversation with Priya Krishna, she delves into her book Indian-ish: Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family in so many unexpected and revealing ways. "Indian…

00:30:30 | Thu 06 Jun 2019

Priya Krishna on Special Sauce: How Indian-ish Came to Be [1/2]

I knew that Priya Krishna, author of Indian-ish: Recipes and Antics From a Modern American Family (I am predisposed to like any book with the word antics in the title), was smart and funny and focuse…

00:31:29 | Thu 30 May 2019

Special Sauce: Joe Yonan on Charting Your Own Path [2/2]

In part two of my far-ranging interview with Washington Post food editor Joe Yonan, we talked about his career in journalism and the ever-evolving world of food media. Joe told me about his winding…

00:35:00 | Fri 24 May 2019

Special Sauce: Food Editor Joe Yonan on Finding the Color of His Parachute [1/2]

It's always fun to have a longtime friend on Special Sauce because I always learn so much about the person sitting across from me, no matter how long I've known them. And that's just what happened wh…

00:35:36 | Thu 16 May 2019

Special Sauce: Jason Wang on Building a Xi'an Famous Foods Empire [2/2]

In part two of my conversation with Xi'an Famous Foods cofounder Jason Wang, he and I talked mostly about the struggles and challenges involved in first getting the business off the ground, and then …

00:33:33 | Thu 09 May 2019

Special Sauce: Jason Wang on the Origins of Xi’an Famous Foods [1/2]

One of the many reasons I love doing Special Sauce is I get to interview people who shed light on various parts of the food culture I know very little about. People like Jason Wang. Wang and his fath…

00:33:46 | Thu 02 May 2019

Special Sauce: Kwame Onwuachi's Journey From Setbacks to Success Story [2/2]

When we last left chef and memoirist Kwame Onwuachi, he had dived back into his catering business in New York City. Business was decent, but he’d begun to see holes in his game. "The food tasted good…

00:27:06 | Thu 25 Apr 2019

Kwame Onwuachi on Special Sauce: Notes From a Young Black Chef [1/2]

This week's Special Sauce guest, chef-restaurateur (Kith/Kin in Washington, DC) and memoirist (Notes From a Young Black Chef) Kwame Onwuachi, has led an interesting life, to say the least. How intere…

00:20:44 | Fri 19 Apr 2019

Special Sauce: Allison and Matt Robicelli on Moving to Baltimore [2/2]

When we last left the irreverent Robicellis in the first part of their Special Sauce interview, they had decided to leave Brooklyn, their beloved hometown. I wondered why Allison and Matt decided on …

00:36:50 | Thu 11 Apr 2019

Special Sauce: Matt and Allison Robicelli on Cupcakes and the Bonds of Suffering [1/2]

Sometimes our Special Sauce guests are just so idiosyncratic, so entertaining, so thoughtful, and so zany, I find myself alternately laughing and near tears for an hour and a half straight. That's wh…

00:36:29 | Thu 04 Apr 2019

Special Sauce: Tommy Tomlinson on Asking for Help When You Need It [2/2]

In part two of my wonderful conversation with Tommy Tomlinson, author of the impossible-to-put-down book The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America, we talk abo…

00:45:30 | Thu 28 Mar 2019

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