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
Kenji and Ed Tackle Listener Questions of Authenticity and More
In this third episode of Call Special Sauce, Kenji and Ed wrestle with tricky questions from Serious Eaters on food allergies, electric stovetops, and authenticity.
00:46:44 |
Fri 09 Sep 2016
Brian Polcyn and Michael Ruhlman on Why Failure Is the Key to Success
The arts of making French charcuterie and its Italian cousin, salumi, are two of the highest forms of the craft of cooking. So when I heard that chef and cooking teacher Brian Polcyn and journalist M…
00:54:30 |
Thu 01 Sep 2016
Dinosaur BBQ's John Stage on His Unlikely Path to Pitmaster
On this week's Special Sauce, John Stage, founder of the insanely popular barbecue mini-chain Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, reveals the unusual way he discovered his calling. Growing up, Stage had a soft spot …
00:43:14 |
Thu 25 Aug 2016
Pastry Wizard Stella Parks (BraveTart) on Iconic American Desserts
Serious Eats' pastry expert, Stella Parks, a.k.a. BraveTart, is so disarmingly charming as our guest on Special Sauce, you'll undoubtedly fall in love with her the way all of us have. After attending…
00:43:51 |
Fri 19 Aug 2016
Danny Meyer Tells the Shake Shack Origin Story
In the middle of part 2 of Danny Meyer's interview on Special Sauce comes a shocking admission. In 2001 the first incarnation of the enterprise that became the global phenomenon Shake Shack was a hot…
00:36:36 |
Thu 11 Aug 2016
Danny Meyer Talks Hospitality and Comfort Food
In this week's episode of Special Sauce-the first of two parts-we talk about how Meyer came to see the pursuit of restaurant-experience perfection as anathema to his own business, and take a look at …
00:38:58 |
Thu 04 Aug 2016
How Roy Choi Plans to Change the World
On this week's Special Sauce, Roy Choi told me that his new California-based fast food concept, LocoL, is merely trying to change the world, one mostly-meat burger at a time.
00:33:32 |
Thu 28 Jul 2016
Ed and Kenji Take Your Calls (Part 2)
This week's especial Special Sauce episode (I know that's redundant, but it rolls off the tongue) again features my runnin' and eatin' partner, Kenji López-Alt, Serious Eats' managing culinary direct…
00:55:41 |
Thu 21 Jul 2016
Extra-Special Sauce: Ed and Kenji Take Your Calls.
This week's episode of Special Sauce is, well, special. Inspired by Car Talk, one of our all-time favorite radio shows, we did a call-in session featuring Kenji López-Alt, Serious Eats' managing culi…
00:45:36 |
Thu 14 Jul 2016
Eric Ripert on the Making of His Memoir and What Inspires Him
I used to think of Le Bernardin chef-restaurateur Eric Ripert as a smart, impossibly charming and handsome chef's chef. But between interviewing him for Special Sauce and reading his moving and evoca…
00:52:23 |
Thu 07 Jul 2016
Tom Douglas on the Moral Imperative of Livable Restaurant Wages.
The multiple-Beard-Award-winner and proprietor of 19 Seattle restaurants is whip-smart, even though his mother has never forgiven him for being the only one of her eight children not to go to college…
00:51:20 |
Sat 02 Jul 2016
Russ & Daughters on How to Keep a 100-Year-Old Family Food Business Fresh
Family businesses are hard. Family food businesses that have lasted four generations, like the New York appetizing emporium Russ & Daughters, are practically unicorns. So, when I had a chance to have…
01:00:16 |
Fri 24 Jun 2016
Jessamyn Rodriguez on Hot Bread Kitchen, NY's Bakery Incubator
Ed Levine first met Jessamyn Waldman Rodriguez eight years ago, when he happened upon her and her mother selling handmade tortillas at a tiny farmers market in West Harlem. Even back then, he could t…
00:48:27 |
Fri 17 Jun 2016
Jim Lahey on the Accident of No-Knead Bread
This week's Special Sauce guest, bread baker extraordinaire Jim Lahey, is a man of strong opinions, provocative ideas, and many talents. He's not on the fence about anything. So I figured that if we …
00:55:52 |
Fri 10 Jun 2016
Roy Blount Jr. on Saving Room for Pie
Roy Blount Jr. is one of the funniest writers on the planet. And he loves to eat, and talk about what he's eaten, so he's a made-to-order guest on Special Sauce. On this week's episode, you'll hear R…
00:38:30 |
Thu 26 May 2016
Special Sauce: Chris Ying on the Best and Wurst of Lucky Peach Life
Who knew, in an age of huge magazine companies being sold off like rusty used cars, that you could create a quarterly, delightfully idiosyncratic food magazine and get more than a hundred thousand pe…
00:48:28 |
Thu 19 May 2016
Special Sauce: Dominique Ansel on Why He Doesn't Take Advice From Anyone
In this episode, we discuss how Dominique Ansel went from army KP duty to the kitchens of Fauchon in Paris (where he arrived in a clunker he bought for $400), to being the pastry chef at New York gas…
00:52:15 |
Fri 13 May 2016
Special Sauce: Sweetgreen’s Nicolas Jammet on His Secrets to Success
The Sweetgreen team has watched their business grow over the past nine years from a single 500-square-foot storefront location in DC's Georgetown, which they opened when they were still college stude…
00:46:28 |
Thu 05 May 2016
Special Sauce: Dan Pashman on Arguing for Fun and His Mother's Fajita Obsession
In this episode, we get into some Sporkful-inspired debates about the purpose of hot dog buns and the ideal shape of pie. We discuss the divide in the podcasting world, as well as what makes his ofte…
00:36:22 |
Thu 28 Apr 2016
Special Sauce: Francis Lam on American Identity and Chrissy Teigen's Mac and Cheese
In this episode of Special Sauce, Lam and I discuss how he tends to "go for the cheeks" and why his parents are proud of him for doing so. He also talks about how normal it is for writers to hate wri…
00:57:24 |
Thu 21 Apr 2016
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