Season 6

28:28

Jacques Pépin Part 1: The Legend at 90+

Season 6 ·

2026/10/09

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 Pépin’s seminal work La Technique. Pépin was even more charming in person. Thank you, Jacques, for taking...

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35:15

Susie Essman Reheat: An Oldie but a Goodie

Season 6 ·

2026/10/02

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 vegetarianism when the smell of bacon just became too much for her; and coming up with comedy legends Larry David,...

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40:07

Meherwan Irani: Indian Street Food Evangelist

Season 6 ·

2026/09/25

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 Botiwalla. On Special Sauce Irani insisted that Indian street food is the best street food in the world. Bold claim! Learn...

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32:13

ICE in Chicago: Still Destroying Food People’s Lives

Season 6 ·

2026/09/18

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 restaurateur-chef and owner of the esteemed Carnitas Uruapan, on Special Sauce to bring us up to date. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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43:58

Why Are Goldbud Peaches the Best?

Season 6 ·

2026/08/21

This week on Special Sauce we talk to Goldbud Farm‘s Chuck Mansfield, who happens to grow the best peaches in the world. He’ll even tell serious eaters how he does it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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41:40

The Big Cheese: A Movie About Cheesemongering

Season 6 ·

2026/08/14

This week on Special Sauce we take a deep dive into the world of cheesemongering with two of the stars of the documentary ‘The Big Cheese’, Adam Jay Moskowitz and Courtney Johnson. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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45:11

Reheating Ramen with Sho Spaeth

Season 6 ·

2026/08/07

On this reheated episode of Special Sauce, former Serious Eats editor and writer Sho Spaeth talks to us about his book, Homemade Ramen, a 2026 James Beard Foundation Book Award nominee. Sho is the Lead Editor and Writer at ChefSteps, and the most passionate and knowledgeable ramen geek I know. He truly believes in the...

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44:49

Reheating Some Yemeni Coffee

Season 6 ·

2026/07/31

Are Yemeni coffee shops the next big thing? On this reheated episode from 2025 serious eaters will meet Mokhtar Alkhanshali who has braved gunfire and jail and AK-47s as he tries to bring single origin Port of Mokha Yemeni coffee to the world. His story is the stuff of movies! Learn about your ad choices:...

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42:04

Loving Food Can Actually Be the Secret to Eating Less...

Season 6 ·

2026/07/24

This week on Special Sauce Dr. Dana Small, a professor at McGill University and one of the leading experts on the neuroscience of food decisions, and longtime friend of the podcast Pete Wells of The New York Times join us to explain how the pleasure and enjoyment of food can be the most important element...

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43:21

The Russ and Daughters Story

Season 6 ·

2026/07/17

How does a family business survive more than a century of selling smoked fish, bagels, and candy? Russ and Daughters‘ Niki Russ Federman explains all. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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45:35

The Bear’s Final Season with the NYT’s James Poniewozik

Season 6 ·

2026/07/10

If there is a smarter or better TV critic than The New York Times‘s James Poniewozik I have yet to come across him or her. So when I was dying to talk to someone about The Bear‘s moving final season I rang up James and he graciously agreed to come on Special Sauce to talk...

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27:16

A Pie Reheat for the 4th of July

Season 6 ·

2026/07/03

Here at Special Sauce we love pie in all its forms: we love shepherd’s pie, apple pie, key lime pie, lemon meringue pie, and our absolute favorite, peach pie. And given that we’re coming up on America’s 250th birthday and Americans love pie we thought we’d reheat one of our favorite pie episodes to get...

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37:17

Summer Burgers Part 2: Kenji and George Motz

Season 6 ·

2026/06/26

This week on Special Sauce serious eaters get to eavesdrop on part 2 of my hilarious and informative conversation with burger mavens Kenji and Hamburger America‘s George Motz. Nobody knows more about cooking and eating burgers than these two burger mavens. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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35:10

The Collective Joy of Knicks Fans

Season 6 ·

2026/06/19

As one of the millions of long-suffering Knicks fans I am still basking in the afterglow of the team’s historical and magical run. I decided I had to devote another episode of Special Sauce to the the team’s amazing playoff run to the NBA championship. And who better to join me on mic is the...

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29:17

Burger Madness Part 1 with Kenji and George Motz

Season 6 ·

2026/06/12

With grilling season underway I felt the time was right to talk burgers with Kenji and Hamburger America‘s George Motz. We talk burger history, burger cooking methods, and all things burger. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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45:36

The Knicks: Orange and Blue Skies, Baby!

Season 6 ·

2026/06/05

As one of the millions of long-suffering New York Knicks fans, I decided I had to devote an episode of Special Sauce to the the team’s amazing playoff run. Joining me on the pod is the The New York Times‘s Matt Flegenheimer, who wrote a great piece about NYC coming together to celebrate this magical...

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40:11

Mateo Kehler: The Cheese Visionary Behind Jasper Hill...

Season 6 ·

2026/05/29

This week on Special Sauce we talk to Mateo Kehler, the cheese visionary behind Jasper Hill Farm. Mateo and his brother Andy, carpenters by trade, pooled together their life savings and bought a 200 acre dilapidated dairy farm in Greensboro, Vermont, in 1998. They were cheesemakers on a mission to save a disappearing way of...

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32:46

The Big Bagel Taste Test

Season 6 ·

2026/05/15

This week on the pod we are back with Part 2 of our deep dive into bageldom with bagel baker and celebrated chef Mark Strausman of Mark’s Off Madison in NYC. He and I taste-tested bagels from Wall Street darling PopUp Bagels, which was just valued at 300 million dollars, a classic traditional NY bagel...

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26:42

Bagels Are Having A Moment

Season 6 ·

2026/05/08

Like slice pizza and smash burgers bagels are having a moment. One concept Pop Up Bagels was just valued at $300 million in its most recent round of financing. Pop Up’s rip and dip bagels are a viral sensation but have left some traditional bagel purists unimpressed. One of those purists is the great chef...

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28:15

Channing Frye Reheat: Go Knicks!

Season 6 ·

2026/05/01

Like many serious eaters I am a serious NBA fan. And although the playoffs this year have just gotten underway, they are already proving to be thrillingly entertaining for people like me who have no skin in the game — other than an unabated lifelong passion for the New York Knicks and just about any...

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