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
Burlap and Barrel - Dried Spices
This week on Special we continue our deep dive into the world of dried spices with Ethan Frisch and Ori Zohar, founders of Burlap & Barrel. And we hear from some serious eaters about their experience…
00:31:45 |
Fri 16 Feb 2024
Jacques Torres, Mr. Chocolate Redux
For Valentine's Day I dug up this classic interview with Mr. Chocolate, Jacques Torres. He gives us a succinct master class in making bean to bar chocolate, from growing the cacao beans to making mil…
00:28:17 |
Fri 09 Feb 2024
Crystal Wilkinson On Kitchen Ghosts
This week on Special Sauce I talk with former Kentucky Poet Laureate Crystal Wilkinson, author of the culinary memoir, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of …
00:30:15 |
Fri 02 Feb 2024
Burlap and Barrel: Socially Conscious Spices
This week on Special Sauce we talk to the good guy spice whisperers Ethan Frisch and Ori Zohar, who are the founders of the socially conscious spice company Burlap & Barrel. They are on a mission to …
00:31:21 |
Fri 26 Jan 2024
Toni Tipton Martin 2: African American Cocktails and More
This week on Special Sauce we delve deeper into Toni Tipton Martin's seminal research into African-American cooking and cocktails.
00:23:14 |
Fri 19 Jan 2024
Toni Tipton Martin: African-American Cookbooks
This week on Special Sauce we talk African American Cookbooks with Cook's Country editor in chief, food historian, and writer Toni Tipton Martin.
00:26:20 |
Fri 12 Jan 2024
Harlem Seafood Soul's Tami Treadwell Redux, Part 2
This week on Special Sauce we hear part 2 of one of our favorite interviews of 2022 with the inimitable Tami Treadwell, the charismatic founder of Harlem Seafood Soul.
00:27:13 |
Fri 05 Jan 2024
Harlem Seafood Soul's Tami Treadwell Redux, Part 1
This week on Special Sauce we're repeating the first of two great interviews with Harlem Seafood Soul's Tami Treadwell.
00:38:22 |
Fri 29 Dec 2023
George Motz: What Makes A Great Burger
This week on Special Sauce we hear more about what makes a great burger with Hamburger America's George Motz
00:22:40 |
Fri 22 Dec 2023
George Motz: Hamburger America
Ths week on Special Sauce I catch up with my old running partner George Motz, America's first bona fide burger scholar. George has just opened his very own burger joint Hamburger America.
00:28:04 |
Fri 15 Dec 2023
Fuschia Dunlop on Chinese Cuisine, Part 2
This week on Special Sauce we go really deep into Fuschia Dunlop's latest book, ‘Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food’. It just got a rave front page review from NYT book critic Dwight …
00:23:03 |
Fri 08 Dec 2023
Fuchsia Dunlop on Chinese Cuisine
This week on Special Sauce, we’ll hear about Fuchsia Dunlop’s journey from her first Chinese cooking classes to the researching and writing of her 7th book, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chin…
00:25:36 |
Fri 01 Dec 2023
Thanksgiving Leftovers with Kenji and Deb
On this episode of Special Sauce Kenji Lopez Alt and Smitten Kitchen's Deb Perelman come to our rescue with some helpful hints about what to do with Thanksgiving leftovers.
00:18:09 |
Fri 24 Nov 2023
Thanksgiving: Kenji and Deb Reduce Your Stress
On this episode of Special Sauce Kenji and Smitten Kitchen's Deb Perelman give us some tips on how to cook up a Thanksgiving feast in a small space without stressing out.
00:45:48 |
Fri 17 Nov 2023
Hetty McKinnon: The Vegetable Whisperer Part 2
This week on Special Sauce we hear more about the joy of vegetables and the importance of family with “Tenderheart” author Hetty McKinnon.
00:31:48 |
Fri 10 Nov 2023
Hetty McKinnon: The Vegetable Whisperer
On this week's Special Sauce I talk to food writer Hetty Liu McKinnon.With her five vegetarian cookbooks, her popular Substack newsletter, and her ingenious vegetarian recipes for the New York Times,…
00:31:00 |
Fri 03 Nov 2023
Hunger Pangs Part 2: A Father and Son Connect Through Food
Last week, we got an inside look at the father son relationship at the heart of the YouTube series, Hunger Pangs. This time we pick up our conversation with Kevin Pak, the Editorial director of Digit…
00:29:29 |
Fri 27 Oct 2023
Hunger Pangs Part 1: A Chinese-American Family Food Saga
On this episode of Special Sauce I talk to food writer Kevin Pang and his dad Jeffrey about how they bridged their substantial generation gap through their shared love of food and cooking.
00:23:33 |
Fri 20 Oct 2023
Chrissy Kinsman Part 2: Pie Baking Tips For All of Us
On this episode of Special Sauce the great "pie-stress" Chrissy Kinsman is back with pie tips for amateur baking.
00:29:21 |
Fri 13 Oct 2023
Chrissy Kinsman: A Life of Pie
On this episode of Special Sauce the great pie baker Chrissy Kinsman of Pie Chicks on Martha's Vineyard tells us about the trials and tribulations of trying to make a living selling pies year round o…
00:21:12 |
Fri 06 Oct 2023
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