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: Tommy Tomlinson on Untangling Food, Love, and Loving Food [1/2]

It's pretty rare for a Special Sauce interview to speak so directly to me that it feels like I've been hit in the gut. But that's exactly what happened when I talked with Pulitzer Prize-nominated aut…

00:33:41 | Thu 21 Mar 2019

Special Sauce: Osayi Endolyn on the Legacy of Southern Fried Chicken [2/2]

The superb young food and culture writer Osayi Endolyn is back again for this week's episode of Special Sauce. This time our far-reaching conversation includes a discussion of a brilliant piece on fr…

00:28:05 | Thu 14 Mar 2019

Special Sauce: Osayi Endolyn on Nigerian Food, Writing, and Identity [1/2]

On this week's episode of Special Sauce, Ed speaks to Osayi Endolyn, a Florida-based food writer whose work regularly appears in major food publications across the country, and whose column in Gravy,…

00:31:59 | Thu 07 Mar 2019

Special Sauce: “Is Deep Dish Pizza a Casserole?” And Other Pressing Pizza Questions [2/2]

Welcome back to part 2 of Ed Levine's Special Sauce conversation about pizza in the wake of the revelation by pizza historian Peter Regas about the true origins of New York City pizza. If you recal…

00:31:43 | Thu 28 Feb 2019

Special Sauce: Uncovering Pizza's US Origins [1/2]

We rarely deal with breaking news on Special Sauce, but when said news concerns pizza's US origins, exceptions must be made. As soon as I learned that Peter Regas, a Chicago-based statistician by day…

00:41:56 | Tue 19 Feb 2019

Special Sauce: Doug Crowell and Ryan Angulo on the Importance of Kindness (and Salt) [2/2]

On this week's Special Sauce, Doug Crowell and Ryan Angulo talk a lot about a lot of things, including their cookbook, the aptly titled Kindness and Salt: The Care and Feeding of Your Friends and Nei…

00:35:58 | Thu 14 Feb 2019

Special Sauce: Doug Crowell and Ryan Angulo on the Neighborhood Restaurant [1/2]

I am constantly on the lookout for good neighborhood restaurants. The kind of restaurants that treat me like a regular even if I'm not; where the host greets me warmly even when it's really crowded; …

00:29:41 | Thu 07 Feb 2019

Special Sauce: Chef Anita Lo on Cooking for Yourself [2/2]

On this week's Special Sauce, Chef Anita Lo talks about her new cookbook, Solo: A Modern Cookbook for a Party of One. To Anita, cooking for yourself is a journey of self-discovery. "I think cooking c…

00:18:45 | Thu 31 Jan 2019

Special Sauce: Chef Anita Lo on Cooking for Michelle Obama [1/2]

This week on Special Sauce with the terrific chef and fine writer Anita Lo. Anita had Annisa, a great restaurant in Greenwich Village, for 16 years before closing it in 2017. She was part of the firs…

00:26:12 | Fri 25 Jan 2019

Special Sauce: The White Moustache’s Homa Dashtaki on Staying Small and Flourishing [2/2]

On this week’s Special Sauce I continue my delightful conversation with The White Moustache founder Homa Dashtaki. I asked her how she makes her sinfully rich yogurt. Homa said, "There's nothing I'…

00:29:48 | Fri 18 Jan 2019

Special Sauce: The White Moustache’s Homa Dashtaki Makes the Best Yogurt in the US [1/2]

I have a confession: Until Daniel Gritzer told me about The White Moustache a couple of months ago, I 'd never heard of it, much less its founder, Homa Dashtaki. Now, after interviewing Homa and tryi…

00:34:33 | Thu 10 Jan 2019

Special Sauce: René Redzepi on Apprenticeships, El Bulli, and Being a Better Leader [2/2]

In this week's Special Sauce interview with René Redzepi, he describes his journey from being a 15-year-old novice cook to culinary visionary, which started when he was an apprentice at Pierre André,…

00:20:41 | Thu 03 Jan 2019

Ask Special Sauce, Holiday Edition: Stella and Daniel on What They Hate About the Holidays

Stella Parks and Daniel Gritzer are back for the second part of our Ask Special Sauce holiday edition, and we tackle some of the most pressing issues many of us face when cooking during the holidays.…

00:35:27 | Tue 18 Dec 2018

Ask Special Sauce, Holiday Edition: Stella and Daniel on Combustible Artichokes and Making a Better Cookie

I had such a good time answering your Thanksgiving questions with Kenji and Stella on our recent installment of Call Special Sauce, we thought we'd do the same thing in a two-episode series leading u…

00:36:27 | Thu 13 Dec 2018

Special Sauce: René Redzepi on Opening Noma at 25 [1/2]

It was a thrill to sit across the table from René Redzepi to record this episode of Special Sauce. The pioneering chef-restaurateur is the force behind Copenhagen's Noma, which has been declared the …

00:29:27 | Fri 07 Dec 2018

Special Sauce: Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook on What Makes Israeli Cuisine Unique [2/2]

In part two of my enlightening and heartfelt conversation with Chef Michael Solomonov and his partner Steven Cook, authors of Israeli Soul: Easy, Essential, Delicious we took a deep dive into- what e…

00:32:59 | Thu 29 Nov 2018

[Rerun] Ask Special Sauce: Kenji and Stella Troubleshoot Your Thanksgiving (2017)

When I was mulling over what we could do on Special Sauce for Thanksgiving, I immediately thought about stress reduction. Making the big dinner can be stressful for any number of reasons, and while w…

00:38:56 | Wed 21 Nov 2018

Call Special Sauce, Thanksgiving Edition: Kenji and Stella on Good Gravy and Loving White Meat

For the last couple of Thanksgivings, we've done call-in episodes of Special Sauce with Stella and Kenji to answer the holiday-cooking questions stumping the Serious Eats community. We love producing…

01:03:46 | Fri 16 Nov 2018

Special Sauce: Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook on True Partnership [1/2]

When we booked multiple James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Solomonov and his business partner Steven Cook on Special Sauce to talk about their new book [Israeli Soul: Easy, Essential, Delicious](…

00:33:47 | Thu 08 Nov 2018

Special Sauce: Sam Sifton on Food in the Internet Age [2/2]

In part two of my repartee-filled interview with New York Times food editor Sam Sifton, we delved into the intersection of food and technology. When I asked Sam how he thinks the internet has impacte…

00:26:51 | Thu 01 Nov 2018

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