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
Beverly Kim Part 2: From Cooking to Parenthood to Activism
On this episode of Special Sauce James Beard Award Winning Chicago Chef Beverly Kim tells us how how she went beyond serving food to serving her community. Kim explains how she juggles motherhood, ru…
00:26:24 |
Fri 12 May 2023
Beverly Kim: A Chicago Chef's Delicate Balancing Act
This week on Special Sauce Ed Levine talks about the difficulties of work-life balance in the restaurant biz and much more with the James Beard Award-winning chef Beverly Kim. Her first restaurant Pa…
00:30:10 |
Fri 05 May 2023
The Menu: Kenji and the NYT's Glenn Kenny
This week on Special Sauce, Kenji and film critic Glenn Kenny dig into The Menu, the satirical horror comedy film set in an exclusive restaurant on a private island. The film, starring Ralph Fiennes …
00:29:54 |
Fri 28 Apr 2023
Anthony Mangieri & Brian Koppelman Redux
This week on Special Sauce, we're revisiting a great 2022 episode about pizza featuring the great pizzaiolo Anthony Mangieri and his friend and fellow pizza lover Billions co-creator Brian Koppelman.…
00:43:36 |
Fri 21 Apr 2023
Kenji on Foolproof Pan Pizza
This week on Special Sauce Kenji goes deep into his foolproof pan pizza recipe, which is one of Serious Eats' most popular posts of all time.
00:21:06 |
Fri 14 Apr 2023
Kenji on Thin Crust Chicago Pizza
Kenji created quite a stir recently with his column on Chicago Thin Crust Pizza in the New York Times. We're gonna talk about that column and many other pizza related topics on this episode of Specia…
00:35:19 |
Fri 07 Apr 2023
Raghavan Iyer: The Healing Power of Comfort Food
*It is with much sadness that we acknowledge the passing of this week's guest on Special Sauce, Raghavan Iyer. Raghavan died just after we posted the second part of our extraordinary conversation. Iy…
00:18:17 |
Fri 31 Mar 2023
Raghavan Iyer: The Curry Whisperer
Raghavan Iyer has written 6 influential cookbooks on Indian food, including the all-time classic 660 Curries. On this episode of Special Sauce we’re going to hear about his own personal food journey,…
00:29:53 |
Fri 24 Mar 2023
Kenji on Potatoes
This week on Special Sauce Kenji waxes (pun intended) poetic on the secrets to both seriously delicious french fries that taste just like McDonald's when they are fresh out of the fryer (that's when …
00:14:37 |
Fri 17 Mar 2023
JJ Goode: America's Best Worst Cook
This week on Special Sauce hilarious cookbook author JJ Goode is back to go into detail about why he insists he's "America's best worst cook." JJ explains why and how he's ruined innumerable grilled …
00:19:34 |
Fri 10 Mar 2023
The Korean Vegan Redux
This week on Special Sauce, we're revisiting my conversation with Joanne Lee Molinaro, AKA The Korean Vegan. When we last spoke Joanne had already gone from corporate litigator to writing the James B…
00:55:18 |
Fri 03 Mar 2023
JJ Goode Part 1: A Cookbook Writer with No LImits
On this episode of Special Sauce we talk chef cookbook collaborations with the extraordinary James Beard Award-winning food writer JJ Goode. JJ has collaborated with everyone from Iron Chef Morimoto …
00:22:50 |
Fri 24 Feb 2023
Christina Tosi Redux
When I interviewed Milk Bar co-founder Christina Tosi last summer we talked about her extraordinary journey from home baker to pastry chef to entrepreneur. Tosi had an inspirational story to tell, an…
00:27:14 |
Fri 17 Feb 2023
'The Bear' Part 2 with Kenji and Helen Rosner
On this episode of Special Sauce Kenji, The New Yorker's Helen Rosner, and I dig further into the first season of ‘The Bear’ and also muse about what we'd like to see in the second season of the show…
00:19:56 |
Fri 10 Feb 2023
The Bear Reflections
Kenji and The New Yorker's Helen Rosner reflect on the first season of the compelling TV show The Bear, now streaming on Hulu. J. Kenji Lopez Alt is of course the author of bestselling cookbooks like…
00:35:43 |
Fri 03 Feb 2023
Grace Young Redux With An Update
This week I decided to revisit my interview with the extraordinary Grace Young, Why? Well, for starters Grace, cookbook author, cultural anthropologist, and wok therapist, is a wonder, a Chinese-Amer…
00:36:10 |
Fri 27 Jan 2023
Kenji on Scrambled Eggs
On this episode of Special Sauce we take a deep dive into scrambled eggs with eggspert egg maker J. Kenji Lopez-Alt. He tells us about his latest eggprerimentation with one of the world's favorite eg…
00:16:34 |
Fri 20 Jan 2023
Restaurants Now: Critic's Roundtable Part 2
On this episode of Special Sauce The New York Times’s Pete Wells and Brett Anderson, and The New Yorker's Hannah Goldfield all weigh in on what serious eaters are likely to see (and taste) when they …
00:21:38 |
Fri 13 Jan 2023
Restaurants Now: Critic's Roundtable Part 1
On this episode of Special Sauce I talk to The New York Times's Pete Wells and Brett Anderson, and the New Yorker's Hannah Goldfield about what and where they ate in 2022, and where they think restau…
00:44:15 |
Fri 06 Jan 2023
Eric Kim Redux
In 2022 I got a chance to chew the fat with so many interesting people on Special Sauce. I couldn't possibly pick a favorite episode to leave you with, but I can certainly say with confidence that my…
00:32:46 |
Fri 30 Dec 2022
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