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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Andrew Rea on Life After Going Viral [2/2]

As we came to the end of the first part of our conversation, Andrew Rea had just started producing and hosting Binging with Babish, which I think is the most exciting, engaging, and just plain fun sh…

00:28:51 | Thu 14 Dec 2017

Andrew Rea on the Wild Success of Binging With Babish [1/2]

I have to say that most YouTube cooking shows leave me cold. There's a little too much shaky cam footage and a few too many unfunny asides, and not enough serious, engaged cooking for my taste. So wh…

00:29:49 | Thu 07 Dec 2017

Bill Yosses on White House Dirt and Fake News [2/2]

If you interview someone like Bill Yosses, who was the White House pastry chef for George W. Bush and Barack Obama, you hope and pray that you can shake loose some dirt to titillate your listeners. B…

00:34:37 | Thu 30 Nov 2017

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

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 | Fri 24 Nov 2017

Bill Yosses on President Obama's Love of Pie [1/2]

This week's guest on Special Sauce is Bill Yosses, who was the White House pastry chef from 2007 to 2014 and is the author of the just-published The Sweet Spot: Dialing Back Sugar and Amping Up Flavo…

00:31:51 | Fri 10 Nov 2017

David Tanis on Chez Panisse and the Hideousness of Writing Cookbooks

One of the many reasons I love doing Special Sauce is I get to talk to many people I have long admired from afar and never met. This week's guest is one of those people: David Tanis, one of the best …

00:46:58 | Thu 02 Nov 2017

Jacques Torres Explains the Chocolate Color Wheel [2/2]

Serious Eaters who are as curious about all things chocolate as I am are going to love the second part of my Special Sauce interview with Jacques Torres, a.k.a. Mr. Chocolate. Jacques gives a simpl…

00:41:55 | Thu 26 Oct 2017

Jacques Torres on Becoming Mr. Chocolate [1/2]

If you love chocolate–and what Serious Eater doesn't–you won't want to wait to savor every morsel of the Special Sauce episodes featuring Mr. Chocolate himself: chocolatier and pastry chef extraordin…

00:33:45 | Fri 20 Oct 2017

Chris Kimball on the Grateful Dead and Life After America's Test Kitchen [2/2]

I'm going to go out on a limb here, or perhaps I should say on a sprig of rosemary: For those who care deeply about the state of home cooking today, the food-journalism landscape, or the Grateful Dea…

00:38:37 | Thu 12 Oct 2017

Chris Kimball on the Joy of Arguments and the Future of Food Media [1/2]

If you're interested at all in food media you're going to love my Special Sauce conversation with Milk Street founder and seminal food publishing guru Chris Kimball. Chris is insanely smart, incredib…

00:33:45 | Thu 05 Oct 2017

Adam Driver on Choosing Roles and Eating a Chicken a Day [2/2]

When–and it should be when, not if–you listen to part two of my Special Sauce interview with Adam Driver, my guess is you'll be as awed as I was by his bandwidth, his intellectual curiosity, and the …

00:21:30 | Thu 28 Sep 2017

Adam Driver on Marines, MREs, and Postprandial Cereal [1/2]

For the first episode of the new season of Special Sauce I invited on a very special guest: the brilliant, original, and always thoughtful Adam Driver. We talked about his unusual path to an acting c…

00:25:11 | Fri 22 Sep 2017

Chris Bianco, the Pizzaiolo With a James Beard

In part two of my far-ranging conversation with chef, pizzaiolo, and pizza poet laureate Chris Bianco, we talk about so many things, including his reaction to winning the James Beard Award for Best C…

00:27:08 | Thu 31 Aug 2017

Chris Bianco, the Poet Laureate of Pizza

My guest on this week's Special Sauce is Chris Bianco, the man who makes my favorite pizza in the world. The pies he puts out at Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix, AZ, would definitely be on the table at my…

00:34:02 | Fri 25 Aug 2017

Daniel Boulud on Making Airplane Food Taste (Pretty) Good

In part two of my illuminating interview with French-American super chef Daniel Boulud, he and I talk about—believe it or not—airline food. Daniel has designed some business class meals for Air Franc…

00:25:15 | Fri 18 Aug 2017

The Culinary Education of Daniel Boulud

My guest on this week's Special Sauce is Daniel Boulud, whom I have known for more than 25 years. We first met when Alex Lee, his longtime chef de cuisine and my regular squash partner, asked me to t…

00:39:28 | Fri 11 Aug 2017

Nobu Designer David Rockwell on the Perils of Pursuing Timeless Design

Welcome back for part two of my Special Sauce interview with designer and architect David Rockwell. In this week's episode, David talks about what the initial design process for projects is like, and…

00:32:23 | Fri 04 Aug 2017

Nobu Designer David Rockwell on His Tricks of the Trade

On this week's episode of the Special Sauce podcast, host Ed Levine talks to David Rockwell, the architect and designer behind every Nobu around the globe, as well as multiple airline terminals and t…

00:33:33 | Fri 28 Jul 2017

Fuchsia Dunlop on "Magic Ingredients" and Stocking the Chinese Pantry

In part two of my Special Sauce interview with Chinese-food and -culture writer Fuchsia Dunlop, we tackle common misconceptions about cooking Chinese food at home. Fuchsia addresses those intimidated…

00:39:51 | Fri 21 Jul 2017

Fuchsia Dunlop on Her Enduring Love Affair With Chinese Cooking

What a story: A young, food-obsessed British student at Cambridge University named Fuchsia (God, I love that name) heads to China in the '90s to study, and manages to become the first Westerner to at…

00:42:56 | Fri 14 Jul 2017

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