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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Jan 7, 2016 · 40 min
David Simon on The Wire, Raw Oysters, and Richard Pryor
On this week's Special Sauce, I talk to David Simon—one of the smartest, funniest, and most thoughtful serious eaters I have ever broken bread with—about how his years as a beat reporter made their way into his television work....
Dec 17, 2015 · 49 min
Laura Lippman on the Baltimore Food Scene, Crime Writing, and Journalism
"I'm a very average cook, but I'm a very happy cook," crime novelist Laura Lippman explained to me on this week's podcast. Lippman is far from your average writer, though. The Washington Post has called her "one of the best novelists around, period."...
Dec 3, 2015 · 34 min
Susie Essman Talks Bacon, Profanity, and Vegetarianism
I've known the great comedian and actress Susie Essman for nearly 20 years, and I've always been disappointed that she'd never cursed me out the way she did her TV husband, Jeff Garlin, on Curb Your Enthusiasm. So I asked her to let me have it right...
Nov 19, 2015 · 46 min
Rich Torrisi Talks Curiosity, Craftsmanship, and Carl Sagan
Rich Torrisi's name hits headlines all the time, but the renowned chef—and managing partner of one of New York City's hottest restaurant groups—admits that he doesn't much care for all the media attention. "I don't have a taste for it, I...
Nov 12, 2015 · 44 min
Gail Simmons Shares Her Journey From Personal Assistant to Top Chef Judge
When I first met her more than a decade ago, Gail Simmons was no television personality. She was the not-at-all-lowly assistant to Jeffrey Steingarten, the feared and revered Vogue food critic. (And she had to survive a ridiculously arduous interview...
Nov 5, 2015 · 49 min
J. Kenji López-Alt on The Food Lab, Baths, Karaoke, and Becoming a Cook
Even if you've read every one of his columns on Serious Eats and every page of his weighty tome "The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science", you'll still find out some surprising—and funny—stuff about Kenji López-Alt...
Oct 29, 2015 · 25 min
A Conversation with Phil Rosenthal
The first episode features my good friend Phil Rosenthal, who's a successful restaurant investor and the creator of Emmy Award-winning TV show Everybody Loves Raymond. PBS is now airing his latest creative endeavor, I'll Have What Phil's Having, a...

Special Sauce with Ed Levine

David Simon on The Wire, Raw Oysters, and Richard Pryor

Laura Lippman on the Baltimore Food Scene, Crime Writing, and Journalism

Susie Essman Talks Bacon, Profanity, and Vegetarianism

Rich Torrisi Talks Curiosity, Craftsmanship, and Carl Sagan

Gail Simmons Shares Her Journey From Personal Assistant to Top Chef Judge

J. Kenji López-Alt on The Food Lab, Baths, Karaoke, and Becoming a Cook

A Conversation with Phil Rosenthal