Special Sauce with Ed Levine

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.

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Anajak Thai - Justin Pichetrungsi

Anajak Thai - Justin Pichetrungsi

This week on Special Sauce we hang out with Justin Pichetrungsi, the James Beard Award-winning chef-owner of the justifiably heralded Anajak Thai in Los Angeles (Sherman Oaks to be exact). How and why he went from working in animation at Disney to taking over his family's restaurant makes for quite a story.

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Anajak Thai - Justin Pichetrungsi

Anajak Thai - Justin Pichetrungsi

This week on Special Sauce we hang out with Justin Pichetrungsi, the James Beard Award-winning chef-owner of the justifiably heralded Anajak Thai in Los Angeles (Sherman Oaks to be exact). How and why he went from working in animation at Disney to taking over his family's restaurant makes for quite a story.

Phil Rosenthal: Live & Much More

Phil Rosenthal: Live & Much More

This week on Special Sauce I talk to my old friend Phil Rosenthal about the new season of Somebody Feed Phil, his national tour, and Just Try It, the children's book that he wrote with his daughter Lily

Kenji: Teriyaki in Seattle

Kenji: Teriyaki in Seattle

This week on Special Sauce we talk teriyaki with Kenji, who is on a quest to visit every chicken teriyaki joint in Seattle.

Jacques Torres - hot chocolate

Jacques Torres - hot chocolate

This week on Special Sauce we talk hot chocolate with Mr. Chocolate himself, Jacques Torres. Jacques makes my favorite hot chocolate mix.

Kenji and Deb: The Recipe Podcast

Kenji and Deb: The Recipe Podcast

This week on Special Sauce we get the backstory of Deb Perelman and J. Kenji Lopez Alt's brand new podcast The Recipe.

Slow Noodles: A Story of Love, Loss, and Resilience

Slow Noodles: A Story of Love, Loss, and Resilience

This week on Special Sauce we hear the remarkable story of Chantha Nguon, a Cambodian woman who suffers unbearable losses and unspeakable tragedies suffered at the hands of the Khmer Rouge by imagining the taste of her mother's cooking.

Dorie Greenspan's Cookie Advice

Dorie Greenspan's Cookie Advice

This week on Special Sauce Dorie Greenspan zooms in from Paris with lots of helpful cookie baking advice.

Nancy Silverton: Foolproof Baker's Recipes

Nancy Silverton: Foolproof Baker's Recipes

This week on Special Sauce, James Beard Award-winning chef and baker Nancy Silverton talks about her new book ‘The Cookie that Changed My Life’. Any serious eater who loves to bake should check it out.

Dorie Greenspan's Low Key Baking Brilliance

Dorie Greenspan's Low Key Baking Brilliance

This week on Special Sauce we get some brilliant, common sense home baking advice from home baking wizard Dorie Greenspan.

Burlap and Barrel Pt 2

Burlap and Barrel Pt 2

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 experiences with buying, using and storing their dried spices.

Jacques Torres, Mr. Chcocolate Redux

Jacques Torres, Mr. Chcocolate 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 milk, dark, and white chocolate creations to sell in his shops and online.

Crystal Wilkinson On Kitchen Ghosts

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 Black Country Cooks.

Burlap and Barrel

Burlap and Barrel

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 to build new international spice supply chains that are equitable, transparent, and traceable.

Toni Tipton Martin 2: African American Cocktails and More

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.

Toni Tipton Martin: African-American Cookbooks

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.

Harlem Seafood Soul's Tami Treadwell Redux, Part 2

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.

Harlem Seafood Soul's Tami Treadwell Redux, Part 1

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.

George Motz: What Makes A Great Burger

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

George Motz: Hamburger America

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.

Fuschia Dunlop on Chinese Cuisine, Part 2

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 Garner.