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: Sam Sifton on Food as the Universal Language [1/2]

Sometimes my Special Sauce conversations function as a reunion, and this week's episode represents one of those times. Almost 20 years ago, my guest, Sam Sifton, was my editor at the New York Times f…

00:38:27 | Fri 26 Oct 2018

Special Sauce: Kenji and Daniel Talk About Smashing Stuff

On this episode of Special Sauce, I asked Daniel Gritzer, our managing culinary director, to come on and talk about the work he's been doing recently, and about where he thinks the site is headed fro…

00:30:31 | Thu 04 Oct 2018

Where’s Kenji?!? (Here. He’s Here.) [1/1]

I decided to kick off the new season of Special Sauce by checking in with Kenji. It won't surprise the Serious Eats tribe that he's been a little busy lately. You probably know about Wursthall, the r…

00:36:56 | Thu 20 Sep 2018

Special (Pizza) Sauce: Adam Kuban and Scott Wiener Talk Pie, Part 3: Pie Hard With A Vengeance [3/3]

In part three of my pizza nerd-cast with Adam Kuban and Scott Wiener, we go seriously deep into New York pizza, specifically the state of the NYC slice in 2018. Scott observed that some of the best…

00:41:00 | Thu 30 Aug 2018

Special (Pizza) Sauce: Adam Kuban and Scott Wiener Talk Pie, Part 2: Pie Harder [2/3]

The self-described pizza nerds Adam Kuban and Scott Wiener are back with me on this week's Special Sauce to continue our deep dive into our favorite food. Scott took great umbrage at the widely dis…

00:30:14 | Thu 23 Aug 2018

Special (Pizza) Sauce: Adam Kuban and Scott Wiener Talk Pie [1/3]

For the next three weeks on Special Sauce I will be geeking out about pizza with Adam Kuban and Scott Wiener, two of the smartest, most passionate, and most knowledgeable pizza nerds on the planet. A…

00:44:27 | Thu 16 Aug 2018

Sam Kass on How What You See Shapes What You Eat [2/2]

In part two of my interview with former Obama personal chef and Obama White House food activist Sam Kass, I got schooled big-time about the role visuals play in how you eat at home. "The first lesson…

00:21:07 | Thu 09 Aug 2018

Sam Kass on Cooking for the Obamas [1/2]

All right, I admit it: I've always fantasized about having one of the Obamas as a guest on Special Sauce. And while I haven't given up hope entirely, I realize that Sam Kass, my guest on Special Sauc…

00:34:27 | Fri 03 Aug 2018

Rick Bragg on Why Cooks Are the High Priests of Good Living [2/2]

On this week's episode of Special Sauce, the Pulitzer Prize–winning but ridiculously down-to-earth Rick Bragg digs deep into his mom, the subject of his latest book, The Best Cook in the World. For…

00:34:33 | Wed 25 Jul 2018

Author Rick Bragg on His Mom, the Best Cook in the World [1/2]

We don't often get a chance to have a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist on Special Sauce–Jonathan Gold was the first–so I jumped at the chance to have Rick Bragg, one of my favorite writers of all ti…

00:27:30 | Tue 17 Jul 2018

Rodney Scott on Bourdain and Letting the Barbecue Speak for Itself [2/2]

In part two of my terrific conversation with James Beard Award-winning pitmaster Rodney Scott, we discuss the fact that barbecue, like jazz, was developed by African-Americans, and yet most well-know…

00:22:27 | Thu 12 Jul 2018

Rodney Scott Was Born and Raised to Be a Pitmaster [1/2]

Barbecue pitmasters are amongst our nation's greatest storytellers—they learn that all-important skill tending to their 'cue all night. But Rodney Scott, South Carolina pitmaster and James Beard Awar…

00:24:23 | Fri 06 Jul 2018

David Lebovitz on Blogging, Cookbooks, and Moving to Paris [2/2]

On this week's Special Sauce, seminal food blogger, pastry chef, and author David Lebovitz and I took a trip back into the past. And we had a blast. David worked in the Chez Panisse kitchen for 13 …

00:33:06 | Thu 28 Jun 2018

David Lebovitz on Renovating His Home in Paris [1/2]

My guest on this week's Special Sauce is the extraordinary blogger, author, and pastry chef David Lebovitz, whose latest book is L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home. David an…

00:35:53 | Thu 21 Jun 2018

Matt Goulding on Why Italian Food Can Evolve [2/2]

Listening to Roads and Kingdom co-founder Matt Goulding talk about the food culture in Italy on this week's Special Sauce was a real treat for me. Matt spent months eating his way through the country…

00:32:34 | Thu 14 Jun 2018

Chef Ed Lee on Cultural Appropriation Versus Collaboration [2/2]

In part 2 of my conversation with the remarkable chef and writer Edward Lee, we take a deep dive into his terrific new memoir-with-recipes Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s …

00:40:31 | Thu 07 Jun 2018

Edward Lee on Finding Home in a Bowl of Collard Greens [1/2]

Having chef and memoirist Edward Lee on Special Sauce was the happiest of accidents. Sitting on top of a pile of books on Special Sauce associate producer Marissa Chen's desk was Lee's evocative and …

00:34:48 | Thu 31 May 2018

Special Sauce: Artist and Author Maira Kalman on Savoring Moments of Cake [2/2]

In part 2 of the Special Sauce interview with artist and author Maira Kalman, we were joined by Barbara Scott-Goodman, who co-authored Cake, and, of course, we talked cake. What else would we talk ab…

00:35:09 | Fri 25 May 2018

Writer and Illustrator Maira Kalman on Room Service and Moments of Joy [1/2]

I don't know how many serious eaters have heard of the brilliant, food-loving, and thought-provoking artist and writer Maira Kalman, but I've been a huge fan of hers for a long time now. So when I he…

00:34:03 | Thu 17 May 2018

Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman on the Perils of Publishing [2/2]

In part two of my terrific interview with Smitten Kitchen's Deb Perelman, we move from the creation of her blog into book writing (her second book Smitten Kitchen Every Day: Triumphant and Unfussy Ne…

00:36:34 | Thu 10 May 2018

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