Special Sauce with Ed Levine

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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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  1. 2026-11-13 · 59 min

    Thanksgiving and the holiday season are upon us and that means this serious eater's thoughts turn to dessert! And so I thought I would perform a public service by reheating this episode from 2024 in which author and…

  2. 2026-11-06 · 40 min

    I have always known my friend, Top Chef's Gail Simmons, to be extraordinarily gracious, no matter the circumstances. So when I read that Gail had written a book on "guesting" I knew I had to have her back on Special…

  3. 2026-10-30 · 41 min

    In this episode of Special Sauce we explore the vital roles immigrants play in restaurant kitchens all over America with chef and restaurateur Marc Meyer, the editor of the important book "Voices from the Kitchen:…

  4. 2026-10-23 · 40 min

    On this episode of Special Sauce we talk to the fine documentarian Betsy West and chef Michael Lomonaco about West's superb new film "Top of the World". The film tells the heartbreaking story of Windows on the World,…

  5. 2026-10-16 · 29 min

    For Jacques Pépin, cooking has always been about bringing people together and sharing the basic skills to make something delicious. This week we return to my conversation with the legendary chef which we recorded at…

  6. 2026-10-09 · 28 min

    What a treat it was to go up to Jacques Pépin's home in Connecticut and interview Jacques, his daughter Claudine Pépin, and her husband Rollie Wesen on the occasion of the publication of the 50th Anniversary edition of…

  7. 2026-10-02 · 35 min

    This week on Special Sauce we go way back into the Internet time machine (2015!) with the brilliant Susie Essman regaling us with hilarious stories about her years of dues paying in comedy clubs, renouncing…

  8. 2026-09-25 · 40 min

    James Beard Award-Winning chef and restaurateur Meherwan Irani has written 'Number 1 Best Indian Cookbook in the World', a book that celebrates the Indian street food he serves at his restaurants Chai Pani and…

  9. 2026-09-18 · 32 min

    After reading about ICE's ongoing appalling treatment of an Argentine-born Chicago chef Carlos Cantatore in the new online food publication Ravenous, I invited Ravenous' Ashok Selvam and Marcos Carbajal, Chicago-born…

  10. 2026-09-11 · 36 min

    This week on Special Sauce, reporter Heather Haddon and columnist Adam Chandler of The Wall Street Journal give us the lowdown on why securing a restaurant reservation is damn near impossible these days.

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Oldest episode in feed
10/2015 · over 11 years
Typical length
36 min
Format
Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone

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