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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

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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Mar 15, 202440 min

Dorie Greenspan's Cookie Advice

This week on Special Sauce Dorie Greenspan zooms in from Paris with lots of helpful cookie baking advice. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Mar 08, 202422 min

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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Mar 01, 202439 min

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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Feb 24, 202426 min

Burlap and Barrel - Dried Spices

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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Feb 16, 202432 min

Jacques Torres, Mr. Chocolate 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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Feb 09, 202428 min

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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Feb 02, 202430 min

Burlap and Barrel: Socially Conscious Spices

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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jan 26, 202431 min

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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jan 12, 202426 min

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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jan 05, 202427 min

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 Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Dec 22, 202323 min

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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Dec 15, 202328 min

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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Dec 08, 202323 min

Fuchsia Dunlop on Chinese Cuisine

This week on Special Sauce, we’ll hear about Fuchsia Dunlop’s journey from her first Chinese cooking classes to the researching and writing of her 7th book, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food . We'll find out what she's learned about the country's history and culture in her many years of exploring Chinese cuisine, and why she says she'll never get bored of eating and writing about Chinese food. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...

Dec 01, 202326 min

Thanksgiving Leftovers with Kenji and Deb

On this episode of Special Sauce Kenji Lopez Alt and Smitten Kitchen's Deb Perelman come to our rescue with some helpful hints about what to do with Thanksgiving leftovers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Nov 24, 202318 min

Thanksgiving: Kenji and Deb Reduce Your Stress

On this episode of Special Sauce Kenji and Smitten Kitchen's Deb Perelman give us some tips on how to cook up a Thanksgiving feast in a small space without stressing out. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Nov 17, 202346 min

Hetty McKinnon: The Vegetable Whisperer Part 2

This week on Special Sauce we hear more about the joy of vegetables and the importance of family with “Tenderheart” author Hetty McKinnon. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Nov 10, 202332 min

Hetty McKinnon: The Vegetable Whisperer

On this week's Special Sauce I talk to food writer Hetty Liu McKinnon.With her five vegetarian cookbooks, her popular Substack newsletter, and her ingenious vegetarian recipes for the New York Times, food writer Hetty has been called the vegetable whisperer, and rightfully so. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Nov 03, 202331 min

Hunger Pangs Part 2: A Father and Son Connect Through Food

Last week, we got an inside look at the father son relationship at the heart of the YouTube series, Hunger Pangs . This time we pick up our conversation with Kevin Pak, the Editorial director of Digital at America's Test Kitchen and his dad, Jeffrey, and learn about how they transformed their success online into a new book, A Very Chinese Cookbook: 100 Recipes from China & Not China (But Still Really Chinese) . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...

Oct 27, 202329 min

Hunger Pangs Part 1: A Chinese-American Family Food Saga

On this episode of Special Sauce I talk to food writer Kevin Pang and his dad Jeffrey about how they bridged their substantial generation gap through their shared love of food and cooking. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Oct 20, 202324 min

Chrissy Kinsman: A Life of Pie

On this episode of Special Sauce the great pie baker Chrissy Kinsman of Pie Chicks on Martha's Vineyard tells us about the trials and tribulations of trying to make a living selling pies year round on a sparsely populated island. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Oct 06, 202321 min

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-forward to the fall of 2023, when many a serious eater's thoughts normally turn to baking. When I listened to Dorie's old episode I was struck by how relevant our nearly ten year-old conversation still was in 2023. So we thought it would be fun to re-post the old episode now. And rest assured that the ...

Sep 29, 202348 min

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 restaurant Pizzeria Lola. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 22, 202330 min

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. In fact, she was a working actor before she realized that it was cooking that made her happy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 15, 202335 min

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 styles for the NYT. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 08, 202324 min

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 and got their hot take on one of the world's most popular foods. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 01, 202329 min

Grilling Veggies with Kenji

On this episode of Special Sauce Kenji is back with some tips for grilling vegetables. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Aug 25, 202319 min
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