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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Aug 18, 2023•21 min
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.
Episodes
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 also the best selling author of The Wok, The Food Lab, and the children's book Every Night is Pizza Night. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Aug 11, 2023•18 min
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 thinker, a fine writer, and a thoughtful soul. Her path to making delicious pastries is anything but typical. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Aug 04, 2023•34 min
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 African market called Soko, and their street food pop-up Waka, Mamba and Nadia are building a cultural bridge between Detroit and their native Burundi. They fled their home country as refugees, determined to build new lives in the US with their children - and the traditional dishes they grew up with b...
Jul 28, 2023•26 min
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 21, 2023•29 min
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 a wok onstage and I didn’t get fired as his sous-chef for inadequately chopping the scallions. Kenji also answered questions from the audience ranging from the best oil to cook with in a wok to how to involve young children in cooking. He also told us what happened when he made a creme brulee for an...
Jul 14, 2023•25 min
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 were celebrating the publication of Kenji's book ‘The Wok’. With Kenji's mother and my wife in the house it was a family affair with lots of laughter and love emanating from the stage. This past May ‘The Wok’ won a James Beard Award for best Single Subject Book, so we thought it would be fun to revisi...
Jul 07, 2023•33 min
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 30, 2023•26 min
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 to)’. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 23, 2023•29 min
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 rave reviews for its Italian breads, pizza & sandwiches. We also take a deep dive into ‘Bread and How to Eat It’, the book Rick wrote with his partner Melissa McCart. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 16, 2023•23 min
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 Melissa McCart have co-authored the provocative new book ‘Bread and How To Eat It’. In his review of Bread & Salt's Roman style pizza, sandwiches and bread, NYTimes food critic Pete Wells declared: "Mr. Easton has a singular vision, and it is the reason the food is so compelling." Learn about your ...
Jun 09, 2023•36 min
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 James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020. The hit Netflix series ‘High on the Hog’, hosted by Stephen Satterfield, was based on Jessica’s book of the same name. The show is returning for its second season later this year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Jun 02, 2023•38 min
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, Sebastian Stan and Jonica T. Gibbs Helping me savor the best cuts of the film are two terrific food writers and film enthusiasts, J. Kenji Lopez Alt and the Smitten Kitchen's Deb Perelman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
May 26, 2023•37 min
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 July. And in September her first cookbook, The Book of Sichuan Chili Crisp : Spicy Recipes and Stories from Fly By Jing's Kitchen, is being published. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
May 19, 2023•33 min
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, running two restaurants, and her activism. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
May 12, 2023•26 min
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 Parachute is the critically acclaimed contemporary Korean restaurant in Chicago she runs with her husband Johnny Clark. Together they won Best Chef in the Great Lakes category, at the James Beard Awards in 2019. These days Beverly and Johnny are also busy with their second restaurant, Wherewithal, and ...
May 05, 2023•30 min
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 and Anya Taylor Joy, skewers foodies, the ultra wealthy, celebrity chefs, and so much more. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 28, 2023•30 min
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. At the time pizza purist Mangieri had just reopened Una Pizza Napoletana on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Now because Tony loves sipping espresso in cafes he has recently turned Una into a cafe on Saturday mornings serving coffee, pastries like an olive oil layer cake, and even a mortadella sandwich ...
Apr 21, 2023•44 min
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 14, 2023•21 min
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 Special Sauce. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 07, 2023•35 min
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. Iyer was a passionate, fierce advocate for Indian food and culture. As I mentioned in the episode he probably taught more Americans to cook Indian food than anyone else. And he faced his longtime battle with cancer with uncommon grace, courage, and determination. This week on Special Sauce we continue ...
Mar 31, 2023•18 min
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, from the family table in Mumbai to a publishing lunch at Betty Crocker that changed his life. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 24, 2023•30 min
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 you have to eat 'em). He also gives some seriously helpful tips on roasting potatoes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 17, 2023•15 min
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 cheese sandwiches at home. And yet JJ insists that his cooking cluelessness makes him a better collaborator on chef's cookbooks. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 10, 2023•20 min
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 Beard Award-winning ‘The Korean Vegan Cookbook’. Now less than two years later Joanne has become a social media superstar. Joanne's Youtube channel has over a million subscribers and she has over 3 million followers on Tik Tok. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Mar 03, 2023•55 min
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 to Sam Kass, who cooked for the Obamas at the White House. JJ has accomplished it all in spite of physical limitations that might have held him back. JJ's essay in Gourmet magazine about trying to cook with only one arm was selected for The Norton Anthology of Nonfiction Writing. Learn about your ad ...
Feb 24, 2023•23 min
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, and we thought it was a story worth repeating. Of course the peripatetic businesswoman has hardly been resting on her laurels since then. Boxes of Milk Bar soft baked cookies are coming to a grocery store near you, as are pints of Milk Bar ice cream. Christina published All About Cookies: A Milk Bar Ba...
Feb 17, 2023•27 min
'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, which is coming to FX this summer. We're all rooting for Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) to find some peace so that Sydney (Ayo Edibiri) can do her thing without being driven crazy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Feb 10, 2023•20 min
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 the Food Lab and the Wok and who cooks on-camera for his own YouTube series, Kenji's Cooking Show. He worked in restaurant kitchens in Boston for many years, and he did a silly thing and opened his own restaurant, Wursthall in San Mateo. The New Yorker's Helen Rosner has spent years writing about re...
Feb 03, 2023•36 min
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-American treasure. And when someone else might be resting on their laurels Young, who has won every award a cookbook author can win, has embarked on a new career and quest as a Chinese-American community activist and advocate. And as you will hear Grace, who was named the James Beard Foundation's Humanit...
Jan 27, 2023•36 min
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