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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.

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38:32

Asheville After the Flood with Pete Wells

Special Sauce with Ed Levine ·

2025/04/04

Last September Asheville, North Carolina was devastated by Hurricane Helene. The damage is estimated to be $60 billion. Especially hard hit was the close-knit food community that has attracted millions of visitors to Asheville every year. The New York Times's Pete Wells did some stellar reporting last fall when he spent a few days interviewing chefs and farmers in the picturesque western Carolina city. Now, six months down the road, Special Sauce checked in with Pete and James Beard

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39:24

Bob Jones of The Chef’s Garden on Farming's Future

Special Sauce with Ed Levine ·

2025/03/28

When the documentary Food and Country came out last year, we had Ruth Reichl on Special Sauce to talk about the film as a whole and the farmers that are actually the stars and heroes of the movie. One of those farmers is Bob Jones, CEO of The Chef's Garden in Ohio. Given the various extraordinary challenges farmers are set to face in the coming years, we thought it would be great to have Bob on the podcast to tell us his story and to tell us what the future might hold for all

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36:21

Remembering New Orleans' Pableaux Johnson

Special Sauce with Ed Levine ·

2025/03/21

The great street photographer, red beans and rice cook, and New Orleans food community organizer Pableaux Johnson died recently while doing what he was put on this earth to do: taking pictures of a second line parade. Here to talk about Pableaux Johnson and what he meant to the hundreds of people who called him a friend and the thousands of people who admired his work are my old friend New York Times food writer, Brett Anderson, and television and food writer, my good pal, Lolis Eric

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40:20

Is the L.A. Smorgasburg the best street food festival...

Special Sauce with Ed Levine ·

2025/03/14

Is the L.A. Smorgasburg the best street food festival in America? We talk to the two people most responsible for it, Zach Brooks and Fernando Lopez. Zach has the dream job of tasting all the food and choosing the vendors; and Fernando runs the beer garden at Smorgasburg in Los Angeles and also helps run his family's famous James Beard Award-winning Oaxacan restaurant Gualaguetza. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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38:55

Laurie Woolever on Bourdain, Batali, and Herself

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2025/03/07

Today on Special Sauce we welcome back writer and former assistant to both Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever. Laurie has just published 'Care and Feeding', a candid, funny, and often devastating memoir about her adventures and misadventures making her way through the food world while navigating addiction, motherhood, a cultural reckoning, and an unexpected tragedy.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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37:46

Remembering the Pizza OG Patsy Grimaldi

Special Sauce with Ed Levine ·

2025/02/28

With the passing of legendary pizzaiolo Patsy Grimaldi, the pizza world has lost one of its true giants. I discuss his legacy with Scott's Pizza Tours founder and pizza scholar Scott Wiener, and another great pizzaiolo, Una Pizza Napoletana's Anthony Mangieri on this episode of Special Sauce. For more on the show, visit thespecialsaucepodcast.com.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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38:45

Food in the Aftermath of the L.A. Fires

Special Sauce with Ed Levine ·

2025/02/21

On this episode of Special Sauce we talk to the Los Angeles Times' Bill Adddison and Jenn Harris about the calamitous effect of the recent devastating fires on the L.A. food community.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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37:32

Adam Chandler on Work in America

Special Sauce with Ed Levine ·

2025/02/14

On this episode of Special Sauce, Adam Chandler talks about his new book '99% Perspiration' which explores the history of work in America. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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24:25

'Reheating' Hot Chocolate With Jacques Torres

Special Sauce with Ed Levine ·

2025/02/07

On this episode of Special Sauce we revisit our chocolate-centric conversation with Mr. Chocolate himself Jacques Torres just in time for Valentine's Day.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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31:00

Kenji on Super Bowl Food

Special Sauce with Ed Levine ·

2025/01/31

The Super Bowl is coming up, so for Super Bowl party food advice who better to turn to than Kenji. The man loves chicken wings and pizza and he gives us some sage advice about making them at home. But he does not love football. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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29:55

Robert Lang On Becoming A Vintner in Italy

Special Sauce with Ed Levine ·

2025/01/24

After falling in love with Italy, my good friend engineer and serial entrepreneur Bob Lang and his wife, environmental writer Alice Outwater, decided to buy a three acre vineyard called La Collina Delle Amici (The Hill of Friends) in Piedmont in 2021. How's it going for them so far? Well, we're going to find out in this week's episode of Special Sauce.Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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42:40

Karen Washington, Food Warrior

Special Sauce with Ed Levine ·

2025/01/17

On this episode of Special Sauce, grassroots food activist and farmer Karen Washington joins us to spread her message of food justice, the concept that healthy, nutritious food is a human right.

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40:39

Scott Wiener on the New York Pizza Slice

Special Sauce with Ed Levine ·

2025/01/10

On this episode of Special Sauce we go deep into the definition, history, and evolution of the New York pizza slice with Scott's Pizza Tours founder Scott Wiener.

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45:21

Raghavan Iyer: The Tribute Reheat

Special Sauce with Ed Levine ·

2025/01/03

On this episode of Special Sauce we pay tribute to the great author, chef and cooking teacher Raghavan Iyer. He introduced much of America to the joys of cooking and eating Indian food. We talked to Raghavan last in March of 2023 about his life, his work, and the last book he ever wrote, "On The Curry Trail". Raghavan talked openly and movingly about his terminal Stage 4 cancer diagnosis and the work he was doing on healing comfort food. His voice occasionally wavered -- you could hear the

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46:21

Michelle Zauner and Kenji, Reheated

Special Sauce with Ed Levine ·

2024/12/27

With the new year fast approaching we thought we would help bring it in by re-releasing -- or should I say reheating -- one of our favorite 'Special Sauce' episodes of all time. It features both my extraordinary conversation with Michelle Zauner and a great talk about the relationship between food and music with Kenji. Michelle is the founder and lead singer of the great indie rock band Japanese Breakfast. And her NYT best-selling memoirist is titled 'Crying in H Mart'.

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35:15

Roy Shvartzapel

Special Sauce with Ed Levine ·

2024/12/21

On this episode of Special Sauce serious eaters will meet Roy Shvartzapel, who makes transcendent panettone at his LA online bakery From Roy.

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30:10

Erin McDowell On Holiday Cookies

Special Sauce with Ed Levine ·

2024/12/13

With the holiday season in full swing, this serious eater's attention turns to eating and baking cookies. And who better to shoot the breeze with on this rich topic than author and baker Erin Jeanne McDowell, who has been called the fairy godmother of baking. She's got some tricks for us.

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26:58

Eric Asimov Part 2

Special Sauce with Ed Levine ·

2024/12/07

As we go about planning our upcoming holiday feasts, it's a pretty good bet that at some point we're going to pick up a bottle of wine or two to share with family and friends. That's why I'm returning to my conversation with someone who's been a guiding light for wine connoisseurs and beginners alike, Eric Asimov, the wine critic for The New York Times.

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19:08

Kenji and Deb Thanksgiving Leftovers Reheat

Special Sauce with Ed Levine ·

2024/11/29

Thanksgiving leftovers can sometimes be a freighted topic for serious eaters. Last year, trying to quell my own Thanksgiving leftovers anxiety and confusion, I had Deb Perelman and J. Kenji Lopez Alt, longtime friends and co-hosts of their own podcast The Recipe, on Special Sauce. We covered a lot of ground in our discussion, everything from the joys of eating leftover cold pie for breakfast to the wisdom of waffling your leftover stuffing. We had so much fun that I decided it was worth

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31:43

Erin McDowell On Pie

Special Sauce with Ed Levine ·

2024/11/22

Thanksgiving and the holiday season are upon us and that means this serious eater's thoughts turn to pie! And so I thought I would perform a public service by inviting perhaps our greatest pie baking teacher, Erin Jeanne McDowell from the YouTube series 'Happy Baking', to come on Special Sauce and talk about all things pie.

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