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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Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman on Not Pretending to Be Perfect [1/2]

A week after sitting down with Elise Bauer of Simply Recipes, I got to reminisce with another seminal food blogger: Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen. Deb started Smitten Kitchen in 2006, the same year…

00:35:58 | Wed 02 May 2018

Elise Bauer on Turning a Food Blog Into a Business [2/2]

At the end of part 1 of my Special Sauce interview with Elise Bauer, she had just described starting Simply Recipes in 2004 after coming home to live with her parents in Sacramento to recover from a …

00:34:42 | Fri 27 Apr 2018

Simply Recipes’ Elise Bauer on Alcatraz Swims and Blogging as Medicine [1/2]

My guest on this week's Special Sauce is Simply Recipes founder Elise Bauer, who was a veteran of Silicon Valley start-ups long before she started her blog. "In the late '90's I worked with a start-u…

00:28:48 | Thu 19 Apr 2018

Sara Moulton on Why Female Chefs Should Head West [2/2]

In part 2 of my Special Sauce interview with Sara Moulton, she plunges headfirst into the issues women face as chefs. "When I first moved to New York...I couldn't get a job. But not only that, about …

00:32:32 | Thu 12 Apr 2018

Sara Moulton on Leftovers, College Gig, and Not Looking for Attention [1/2]

This week's guest on Special Sauce is food television personality and pioneering chef Sara Moulton, who is as unpretentious as she is accomplished. And when I say accomplished I mean accomplished. Sa…

00:38:11 | Thu 05 Apr 2018

Roads & Kingdoms’ Matt Goulding On Moms, Tweets, and Bourdain [1/2]

As you can probably tell, I love interviewing people for Special Sauce. That's because we book guests who have compelling food-related stories to share with us. But Roads & Kingdoms co-founder and au…

00:46:52 | Thu 29 Mar 2018

Andrew Friedman on the Evolution of Chef Culture in America [2/2]

In part two of my interview with Andrew Friedman, the author of Chefs, Drugs, and Rock & Roll, he and I take a really deep dive into the book. Here's Friedman talking about the origins of the America…

00:41:16 | Thu 22 Mar 2018

Author Andrew Friedman on Chefs, Drugs, and Rock & Roll [1/2]

No writer has spent more time working and hanging out with great chefs than Andrew Friedman. So when I heard that his long-awaited book chronicling chef culture in the US—Chefs, Drugs, and Rock & Rol…

00:32:46 | Fri 16 Mar 2018

The Knife Skills Team and Life After the Oscars [2/2]

It's been several days since the Oscars, and I'll admit it: I was keenly disappointed when Knife Skills didn't win for Best Documentary Short. But now that I've had a few days to reflect on the Oscar…

00:28:48 | Fri 09 Mar 2018

The Team Behind Knife Skills, the Oscar-Nominated Documentary [1/2]

We don't usually make a big deal about the Oscars on Special Sauce, but when I saw the brilliant Oscar-nominated documentary short Knife Skills, I knew I wanted to talk about it. The film shows what …

00:44:49 | Thu 01 Mar 2018

Phil Rosenthal on Stepping Out of His Comfort Zone [2/2]

Back in the day, we used to say that Serious Eats was a website focused on celebrating and sharing our enthusiasm for food with the online community. In Part 2 of my interview with fellow food enthus…

00:30:00 | Thu 22 Feb 2018

Phil Rosenthal Is Anthony Bourdain, Except Afraid of Everything [1/2]

My friend Phil Rosenthal, the creator and host of the new Netflix show Somebody Feed Phil is as much fun to talk to as he is to eat with. When I asked him how the show ended up on Netflix, he replied…

00:30:25 | Fri 16 Feb 2018

JJ Johnson on Hoops With Steph Curry and the Pleasures of Rice [2/2]

In part 2 of my interview with JJ Johnson, the charismatic chef and co-author of Between Harlem and Heaven: Afro-Asian-American Cooking for Big Nights, Weeknights, and Every Day, I had to ask him to …

00:24:36 | Thu 08 Feb 2018

JJ Johnson on Embracing the Food of the African Diaspora [1/2]

My guest this week on Special Sauce is chef and cookbook author Joseph "JJ" Johnson. When I say he gravitated to kitchen work at an early age, I mean really early. He started cooking with his grandmo…

00:34:41 | Thu 01 Feb 2018

Jenny Allen on the Joy of Eating a Turkey Burger All by Yourself [2/2]

Here's how the delightful and brave Jenny Allen describes the food at her family table in Part 2 of her Special Sauce interview: "Such bad food...and so little of it." As that quote can attest, you…

00:35:25 | Thu 25 Jan 2018

Author and Playwright Jenny Allen on Chocolate Mousse and Writing Funny [1/2]

Jenny Allen, the humorist and author of the guffaw-inducing new book Would Everybody Please Stop: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas, derives as much pleasure from eating as anyone I know. Consi…

00:30:38 | Fri 19 Jan 2018

Resy's Ben Leventhal on the Growing Pains of Internet Start-Ups [2/2]

When Resy's Ben Leventhal, who has been involved in at least five food-related start-ups, speaks about entrepreneurship, I am all ears. Here are just a couple of the pearls of wisdom that came out of…

00:33:12 | Thu 11 Jan 2018

Eater Cofounder Ben Leventhal on the Early Days of Web 2.0 [1/2]

The members list of the non-existent Digital Food Entrepreneur's Club would be quite small, but it would have to include Ben Leventhal, who is both this and next week's guest on Special Sauce. Ben co…

00:32:12 | Thu 04 Jan 2018

[Rerun] Ask Special Sauce, The Holiday Edition: Kenji and Stella on Pie Crusts, Fudge, and Gizzards

This week we've got a special holiday episode of Ask Special Sauce. With Kenji and Stella serving as my co-pilots from the comforts of their own homes, we endeavored to answer some of the questions S…

00:34:27 | Fri 29 Dec 2017

Ask Special Sauce, The Holiday Edition: Kenji and Stella on Pie Crusts, Fudge, and Gizzards

00:34:27 | Thu 21 Dec 2017

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