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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 420
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Ivan Orkin on Slurping, the State of Ramen in the U.S., and More
On this week's Special Sauce, I continue my far-reaching conversation with great cook and ramen master, Ivan Orkin, aka Ivan Ramen. What is his recommendation on the best way to eat ramen, how did h…
00:26:15 |
Fri 10 Feb 2017
Ivan Orkin on Love, Loss, and the Tastiest Chicken Bits
In this first part of a Special Sauce double-header, Ivan Orkin, of Ivan Ramen and Slurp Shop in NYC, talks about life before he became a celebrity in Japan as a gaijin (foreigner) ramen chef: the Or…
00:34:39 |
Fri 03 Feb 2017
Chef Bill Telepan on Neighborhood Restaurants and School Food
This week's guest on Special Sauce is chef and school food activist Bill Telepan, who is now at the helm of New York's Oceana Restaurant. Bill shares some particularly insightful observations about …
00:53:12 |
Fri 27 Jan 2017
Marcus Samuelsson on Fried Chicken, Russian Invasions, and Jazz
In part two of my conversation with Marcus Samuelsson, we chat a little about the profound Russian influence on everyday Swedish cuisine, the driving inspiration and ethos behind opening his Harlem r…
00:19:59 |
Fri 20 Jan 2017
Marcus Samuelsson's Story Will Move You To Tears
This week's Special Sauce features Chef Marcus Samuelsson, whose restaurant, The Red Rooster, is arguably ground zero of the Harlem food and drink renaissance. I found Marcus's story so inspiring an…
00:24:35 |
Fri 13 Jan 2017
Daniel Rose on Finding Joy at the Table
Chef Daniel Rose of Le Coucou, the best new restaurant in New York City, reflects on his career and kitchen philosophy.
00:58:52 |
Fri 06 Jan 2017
Call Special Sauce: BraveTart on Bake Sale, Pie Anxiety, and Danger Brownies
Our first Call Special Sauce with Stella Parks was so nice, we decided to do it twice. Leah from DC wanted to come up with ideas for baked goods that "would just really light people on fire" at her d…
00:32:29 |
Fri 23 Dec 2016
Call Special Sauce: BraveTart, Trashy Snacks, and Holiday Baking
Let's face it: One of the main reasons we look forward to the holiday season is the copious amount of baked goods we get to make and eat. So, with that in mind, I invited our pastry wizard, Stella Pa…
00:45:58 |
Fri 16 Dec 2016
Call Special Sauce: Ed and Kenji on Boats, Galleys, and Unintentionally Aged Foods
On today's episode of Special Sauce, Kenji and I fielded a wide variety of potentially vexing questions about cooking on a boat (Mike in Cyprus), preparing acidic foods in cast iron cookware (Julia i…
00:50:34 |
Fri 09 Dec 2016
Ruth Reichl on Gourmet's Demise and the Future of Food Journalism
In a million years, I would never have guessed Ruth Reichl's guilty pleasure: "Onion rings," she told me during part two of our conversation on Special Sauce. "I can't resist a good onion ring."
Th…
00:31:49 |
Fri 02 Dec 2016
Call Special Sauce: Ed and Kenji Take Your Thanksgiving Questions
In this week's episode of Special Sauce, Kenji and I field our listeners' call-in questions, and tackle the pressing concerns that plague Thanksgiving cooks (and their guests) around the country.
W…
00:43:07 |
Fri 18 Nov 2016
Ruth Reichl on the Birth of a Food Revolution
If you've ever read one of Ruth Reichl's restaurant reviews, let alone one of her books, then you know what a wonderful, natural storyteller she is. Great storytellers and great stories are the hear…
00:32:55 |
Fri 11 Nov 2016
How Rob Kaufelt Built Murray's Cheese From the Rind Up
I like to call this week's Special Sauce guest, Rob Kaufelt, the cheese whisperer. Finding and selling great cheese seems to be what Rob was put on this earth to do. Over the years, the Murray's Chee…
00:57:32 |
Fri 04 Nov 2016
Einat Admony: From RV Park Chef to Budding Falafel Magnate
The background of this week's guest on Special Sauce—chef, restaurateur, and aspiring falafel magnate Einat Admony—isn't that of your typical chef. She grew up in Israel, learning how to make couscou…
00:43:20 |
Fri 28 Oct 2016
Lidia Bastianich: From Refugee to Culinary Star
Considering her many restaurants, books, and television shows, plus her involvement in the gourmet Italian marketplace Eataly, Lidia Bastianich might seem like a known quantity to serious eaters all …
00:40:27 |
Fri 21 Oct 2016
Serious Eats Culinary Director Daniel Gritzer Sings for His Supper
Daniel Gritzer, Serious Eats' culinary director, is in many ways our not-so-secret weapon. To learn more about the surprisingly nonlinear career path that landed him at Serious Eats (which involved t…
00:50:35 |
Fri 14 Oct 2016
Alex Guarnaschelli on Cooking for Beyoncé, Jay Z, and Prince
This week's guest on Special Sauce, Alex Guarnaschelli, is constantly juggling the roles of TV chef (she's a regular judge on Chopped), working chef (at the two Butter locations in Manhattan), and mo…
00:37:03 |
Fri 07 Oct 2016
Jane and Michael Stern on the Origins of Roadfood
Serious eaters who have been around awhile, like me, know that the idea of driving across America in search of the best regional food originated with Roadfood authors Jane and Michael Stern, not Guy …
00:44:43 |
Fri 30 Sep 2016
Paulie Gee on the Fear and Joy of Quitting Your Day Job
Pizza lovers know Paulie Gee, a.k.a. Paul Giannone, this week's Special Sauce guest, as the owner of the eponymous pizzeria founded in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. But as good as his pies are, and they're d…
00:52:19 |
Fri 23 Sep 2016
Call Special Sauce: "Taste Is Fabricated In Our Brain"
In our latest call-in episode of Special Sauce, Kenji and Ed address listener concerns over how to rebuild a pantry and how a food’s appearance affects taste. And, of course, we make some time for go…
00:33:59 |
Fri 16 Sep 2016
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