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
Razza's Dan Richer on the Joy of Pizza
On this week's Special Sauce Dan Richer, chef and owner of Jersey City's Razza, one of the country's best pizzerias, talks to us about his obsessive Joy of Pizza, which just so happens to be the titl…
00:42:27 |
Fri 13 May 2022
Devita Davidson, Food Lab Detroit and Ji Hye Kim
On this week's Special Sauce Detroit food activist and Food Lab Detroit founder Devita Davidson has a lot to say about how government, entrpreneurs, and the private sector can and should work togethe…
00:35:30 |
Fri 29 Apr 2022
Kenji Live 2: We Cooked And A Wok Q&A
On Part II of our live Special Sauce, Kenji and I successfully cooked eggs and tomatoes in a wok onstage and I didn't get fired as his sous-chef for inadequately chopping the scallions. We also reviv…
00:24:28 |
Fri 15 Apr 2022
Kenji Live on the Wok, Family & McCartney
For our first ever live Special Sauce Kenji and I talked about his new #1 NYT Best-Seller The Wok, how family life has become the center of his existence, and how Sir Paul McCartney gave him an autog…
00:33:14 |
Fri 01 Apr 2022
Justice Activist Jessica Ramos On the Dignity of Work & Kenji On His Wife's Favorite Soup
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, NY State Senator and Food and Labor Activist Jessica Ramos returns to talk about the next set of problems she's tackling. And Kenji tells us about the Colombi…
00:40:37 |
Fri 18 Mar 2022
Michelle Zauner on Screenwriting and her Grammy Nominations & Kenji Weighs in on the Kinship Between Food & Music
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner returns to talk about her two Grammy nominations and writing the script for a Crying in H Mart feature film. Plus, Kenji…
00:49:16 |
Fri 04 Mar 2022
Laurie Woolever Second Helping: On Bourdain & Her New Life
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, Ed catches up with writer Laurie Woolever, author of Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography. Like many people during the pandemic she's turned to sourdough b…
00:53:53 |
Fri 18 Feb 2022
Jessica Harris On the Netflix Adaptation of High on the Hog, Plus Marcus Samuelsson on Jessica's OG Status
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, writer and national treasure Jessica Harris talks about what's new in her world, including the wild ride she has been on since the Netflix adaptation of her b…
00:40:03 |
Fri 04 Feb 2022
Grace Young On Saving Chinatowns from Extinction During the Pandemic
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, cookbook author and now independent Chinese restaurant advocate Grace Young talks about both the pandemic-related dire straits Chinatowns all over America are…
00:49:38 |
Fri 21 Jan 2022
Simply Julia author Julia Turshen and the Washington Post's Daniela Galarza On the Many Pleasures of Simple Cooking
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, Ed talks about the many pleasures, gustatory and otherwise, derived from cooking simply with Simply Julia author Julia Turshen and the Washington Post's Danie…
00:36:54 |
Fri 07 Jan 2022
Holiday Memories and More from the Korean Vegan, Rodney Scott, and Others, Plus Some Last Minute Gift Ideas from Ed
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, Ed talks about the holidays with Pulitzer Prize winning author Marcia Chatelain; YouTube and Tik Tok Star The Korean Vegan, AKA Joanne Lee Molinaro; James Bea…
00:42:04 |
Sat 18 Dec 2021
Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myrvhold: The Modernist Cuisine Founder's 1000+ Page-long, Myth-Busting Take on Pizza
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, Ed talks with former Microsoft CTO and Modernist Cuisine founder Nathan Myrvhold about why his new collection Modernist Pizza required 3+ volumes and 1000 plu…
00:49:07 |
Sat 04 Dec 2021
T-Day Stories From The Korean Vegan, Rodney Scott, Marcia Chatelain, and Joe Yonan
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, we hear moving Thanksgiving stories from the Korean Vegan (Joanne Lee Molinaro), pitmaster and chef-owner Rodney Scott, Pulitzer Prize winner Marcia Chatelain…
00:48:43 |
Mon 22 Nov 2021
Joanne Lee Molinaro, AKA the Korean Vegan, Her Journey from Litigator to TikTok Superstar To NYT Best-Selling Author
On this episode of Special Sauce, Ed talks with Joanne Lee Molinaro, AKA The Korean Vegan, about her unlikely journey from corporate litigator, to TikTok and YouTube superstar, and now to NYT best-se…
01:12:37 |
Fri 12 Nov 2021
Joshua Weissman: An Unapologetic YouTube Star With 5M Subscribers and A Bestselling Cookbook
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, Ed talks with best-selling author (An Unapologetic Cookbook) Joshua Weissman, a YouTube star with more than 5M subscribers, about life in the social media fa…
00:56:52 |
Fri 29 Oct 2021
Dorie Greenspan: On Getting Fired From Her First Kitchen Job & Her New Book
On this episode of Special Sauce, Ed talks with Dorie Greenspan about her new book Baking with Dorie and her inauspicious start baking for a living. Plus, the Washington Post's Becky Krystal weighs i…
00:52:31 |
Fri 15 Oct 2021
Laurie Woolever: Life alongside Anthony Bourdain
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, Ed talks with writer Laurie Woolever, author of Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography, plus Washington Post Food Reporter Emily Heil taste-tests plant-based…
01:08:26 |
Fri 01 Oct 2021
Diversity in Food Media, The Truth About MSG, and Sick Food with the WaPost's Aaron Hutcherson and Kenji
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, we talk to the Washington Post's Aaron Hutcherson about diversity and his deep dive into MSG. It's the first segment in Special Sauce's new collaboration wit…
00:42:08 |
Fri 17 Sep 2021
Best-selling writer Laura Lippman Talks About Her New Books + Kenji Weighs in on Kids' Eating Habits
The terrific crime writer Laura Lippman (My Life as a Villainess, Dream Girl) talks about why she's afraid of not being afraid when she writes. Plus Kenji and Laura both weigh in on how they get thei…
01:00:39 |
Fri 03 Sep 2021
Food, Music & Memoirs with Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner and Kenji
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, we talk about joyful music and an incredibly moving memoir with Michelle Zauner, the leader of the band Japanese Breakfast. She’s the author of the heart-rend…
00:45:13 |
Fri 20 Aug 2021
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