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
Dorie Greenspan Redux: Reflections of a Legendary Baker
On this episode of Special Sauce we revisit my nifty 2016 conversation with the legendary baker and cookbook author Dorie Greenspan, which became one of our most popular episodes of all time. Fast-fo…
00:48:15 |
Fri 29 Sep 2023
Ann Kim 2: A Korean-American Chef's Story
On this episode of Special Sauce Ann Kim talks about the evolution of her relationship with her Korean parents. You won't believe what happened when Ann invited her parents to her about to open first…
00:30:07 |
Fri 22 Sep 2023
Ann Kim: A Working Actor's Unusual Path to James Beard Award-winning Chefdom
On this episode of Special Sauce I talk to the James Beard award winning chef Ann Kim. Ann opened her first restaurant, Pizzeria Lola, in Minneapolis in 2010 without ever having cooked professionally…
00:34:51 |
Fri 15 Sep 2023
JJ Goode on Hot Dogs Part 2
On this episode of Special we dig still deeper into America's regional hot dog styles with food writer JJ Goode, who just wrote an entertaining and informative guide to American regional hot dog styl…
00:24:06 |
Fri 08 Sep 2023
JJ Goode on Hot Dogs Part 1
On this episode of Special Sauce we go deep into dogs, hot dogs that is, with JJ Goode, who wrote a guide to regional hot dogs styles for the NY Times. We also checked in with a few hot dog devotees …
00:28:41 |
Fri 01 Sep 2023
Grilling Veggies with Kenji
On this episode of Special Sauce Kenji is back with some tips for grilling vegetables.
00:19:26 |
Fri 25 Aug 2023
Grilling Chicken and Fish with Kenji
On this episode of Special Sauce Kenji is back with some surefire (pun intended) tips for grilling chicken and fish.
00:21:29 |
Fri 18 Aug 2023
Grilling Pizza with Kenji
On this episode of Special Sauce, we talk about the joys of grilling pizza with Kenji.
J. Kenji Lopez Alt is a New York Times cooking columnist and the host of Kenji's Cooking Show on YouTube. He’s…
00:17:52 |
Fri 11 Aug 2023
Natasha Pickowicz: Baker & Activist
This week on Special Sauce we talk to pastry chef extraordinaire Natasha Pickowicz. Natasha is as the title of her new book More Than Cake implies, much more than a baker. Natasha is an original thin…
00:34:11 |
Fri 04 Aug 2023
Hamissi Mamba Part 2
This week on Special Sauce Part 2 of my conversation with chef Hamissi Mamba, who runs the amazing East African spot Baobab Fare in Detroit with his wife Nadia Nijimbere. With the restaurant, their A…
00:26:26 |
Fri 28 Jul 2023
Hamissi Mamba Part 1: From Burundi to Detroit
This week I'm talking with Hamissi Mamba about the long road to success from his native Burundi to the vibrant food scene in Detroit.
00:29:10 |
Fri 21 Jul 2023
Kenji Live at the Bell House Redux Pt 2
On the second Special Sauce episode Kenji and I did live from the Bell House in Brooklyn, NY last March we talked about his latest book ‘The Wok’, Kenji and I successfully cooked eggs and tomatoes in…
00:25:14 |
Fri 14 Jul 2023
Kenji Live at the Bell House Redux
Last March we did our first ever live to tape episode of Special Sauce with our great friend J. Kenji Lopez Alt. It was taped before a wildly appreciative audience at the Bell House in Brooklyn. We w…
00:33:16 |
Fri 07 Jul 2023
Rodney Scott: How to Throw a Kick-Ass July 4th Barbecue
This week on Special Sauce pitmaster, chef, and whole hog barbecue evangelist Rodney Scott gives serious eaters great tips for our July 4th backyard barbecues.
00:25:45 |
Fri 30 Jun 2023
Ali Slagle: The Life of a NYT Recipe Developer
This week on Special Sauce I talk to NYT Cooking contributor Ali Slagle about her path to becoming a recipe developer. Slagle just published her first cookbook ‘I Dream of Dinner (so you don't have t…
00:28:52 |
Fri 23 Jun 2023
Rick Easton: Eat Bread, Don't Make It
This week on Special Sauce, we have a chef who suggests you DON’T try his recipes at home.It’s part 2 of my conversation with Rick Easton, owner of Bread and Salt, the casual spot in NJ that draws ra…
00:22:34 |
Fri 16 Jun 2023
Rick Easton: How To Eat Bread Pt. 1
This week's guest on Special Sauce is the extraordinary bread baker, chef and pizzaiolo Rick Easton, who owns the terrific weekends- only Bread and Salt Bakery in Jersey City. Rick and his partner Me…
00:35:59 |
Fri 09 Jun 2023
High on the Hog's Jessica Harris Redux
This week on Special Sauce, we’ll revisit my conversation with one of our greatest food writers, Jessica Harris, who introduced many of us to the food of the African Diaspora. Jessica was awarded the…
00:38:06 |
Fri 02 Jun 2023
Kenji and Deb on the movie Fresh
On this episode of Special Sauce we're talking about the film ‘Fresh’, which Amy Nicholson in the New York Times described as a wickedly funny cannibal romance. The movie stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Seb…
00:37:19 |
Fri 26 May 2023
Jing Gao Redux
On this episode we revisit our conversation with Fly by Jing founder Jing Gao. Jing has not been idle since we spoke to her last August. She's getting ready to open Sua, a restaurant/market in LA in …
00:33:18 |
Fri 19 May 2023
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