Special Sauce with Ed Levine
Episodes
Holiday Memories and More from the Korean Vegan, Rodney Scott, and Others, Plus Some Last Minute Gift Ideas from Ed
18 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, Ed talks about the holidays with Pulitzer Prize winning author Marcia Chatelain; YouTube and Tik Tok Star T...
Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myrvhold: The Modernist Cuisine Founder's 1000+ Page-long, Myth-Busting Take on Pizza
04 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, Ed talks with former Microsoft CTO and Modernist Cuisine founder Nathan Myrvhold about why his new collecti...
T-Day Stories From The Korean Vegan, Rodney Scott, Marcia Chatelain, and Joe Yonan
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, we hear moving Thanksgiving stories from the Korean Vegan (Joanne Lee Molinaro), pitmaster and chef-owner R...
Joanne Lee Molinaro, AKA the Korean Vegan, Her Journey from Litigator to TikTok Superstar To NYT Best-Selling Author
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Special Sauce, Ed talks with Joanne Lee Molinaro, AKA The Korean Vegan, about her unlikely journey from corporate litigator, to Tik...
Joshua Weissman: An Unapologetic YouTube Star With 5M Subscribers and A Bestselling Cookbook
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, Ed talks with best-selling author (An Unapologetic Cookbook) Joshua Weissman, a YouTube star with more th...
Dorie Greenspan: On Getting Fired From Her First Kitchen Job & Her New Book
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Special Sauce, Ed talks with Dorie Greenspan about her new book Baking with Dorie and her inauspicious start baking for a living. P...
Laurie Woolever: Life alongside Anthony Bourdain
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, Ed talks with writer Laurie Woolever, author of Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography, plus Washington Po...
Diversity in Food Media, The Truth About MSG, and Sick Food with the WaPost's Aaron Hutcherson and Kenji
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, we talk to the Washington Post's Aaron Hutcherson about diversity and his deep dive into MSG. It's the f...
Best-selling writer Laura Lippman Talks About Her New Books + Kenji Weighs in on Kids' Eating Habits
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The terrific crime writer Laura Lippman (My Life as a Villainess, Dream Girl) talks about why she's afraid of not being afraid when she writes. Plus K...
Food, Music & Memoirs with Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner and Kenji
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, we talk about joyful music and an incredibly moving memoir with Michelle Zauner, the leader of the band Jap...
Celebrating Colombia with Author Mariana Velásquez and Kenji Lopez-Alt
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s Special Sauce, we’re joined by Colombiana author Mariana Velásquez who talks about the incredible cultural and culinary diversit...
Katie Quinn and Kenji Lopez-Alt on Fermentation
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Special Sauce, we’re joined by the incredible youtuber, podcaster and Cheese, Wine and Bread author Katie Quinn who says that me...
Author Reem Kassis on Palestinian Cooking, Plus Kenji on Making Falafel at Home
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, we’re joined by Reem Kassis, the thought provoking author of The Palestinian Table and her new book, The ...
NY State Senator Jessica Ramos, Plus Kenji on his Wife's Favorite Colombian Dish
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Special Sauce, we're joined by NY State Senator and Colombian-American Jessica Ramos who talks about her fearless approach to food acti...
Susie Essman on Pandemic Cooking and Comedy
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, we’re joined by the brilliant and hilarious comedian, actor, writer and producer Susie Essman. Essman exp...
Chef Nina Compton on Women of Color in Restaurant Kitchens & the dire situation in her native St. Lucia, Kenji on Jerk Chicken
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce we’re joined by Chef Nina Compton who talks about her experience working in fine dining as a woman of colo...
Nigella Lawson As You've Never Heard Her, Plus Kenji Gives Her Major Props
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's episode of Special Sauce legendary food writer and television cook Nigella Lawson gets real about both her new book "Cook, Eat, Repeat,...
Rodney Scott & Lolis Eric Elie on BBQ And Fathers & Sons, Plus Kenji’s Pork Shoulder
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s Special Sauce, we’re joined by the great pit master and James Beard Award-winning chef Rodney Scott and his coauthor Lolis Eric El...
Lolis Eric Elie on New Orleans food & diversity in Hollywood, Kenji on Red Beans & Rice
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's episode of Special Sauce, we're joined by TV and food writer Lolis Eric Elie who dishes on diversity -- or the lack thereof -- in Holl...
Fast Food: Good and/or Evil with Marcia Chatelain, Adam Chandler & Kenji
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, we continue our deep dive into the world of fast food. This time Franchise Author Marcia Chatelain, Dr...
Marcia Chatelain, Adam Chandler, Bill Oakley and Kenji Lopez-Alt on Fast Food
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode of Special Sauce, we ponder the highs and the lows of fast food culture with Marcia Chatelain, Georgetown University Professo...
Special Sauce: Mashama Bailey & Johno Morisano On the Birth of The Grey
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When the ultra-talented chef Mashama Bailey collaborated with first-time restaurateur John Morisano to open The Grey in an old abandoned Greyhound bus...
Cookbook Author Grace Young on Saving Chinatown & Wok Therapy
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Special Sauce we talk to Grace Young, renowned Chinese cookbook author, self-described wok therapist, and New York Chinatown advocate ...
Special Sauce: Jessica Harris, Marcus Samuelsson & Kenji on Fries
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's episode of Special Sauce we celebrate one of the greatest food writers, Jessica Harris, who introduced many of us to the food of the Af...
Special Sauce: Two Food Writers on Surviving Covid & Kenji Offers a Comfort Soup Recipe
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode, we talked with Washington Post food writer Tim Carman and his wife, spirits writer Carrie Allen, about their scary battle wi...
Special Sauce: A Restaurateur's Harrowing Yet Hopeful Covid-19 Story
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Special Sauce, host Ed Levine talks to Brooklyn restaurateur (BK Jani) Sibte Hassan. Hassan contracted the Coronavirus in April, and hi...
Holiday Baking with Kenji Lopez-Alt, Amanda Mack and Adam Ragusea.
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, host Ed Levine is joined by the Baltimore-based baker Amanda Mack, who defied the odds when she opened up her family-inspired bakery, Crust...
Special Sauce: Kenji on His Children's Book, Cookbook, and Gift Giving This Year
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kenji Lopez-Alt tells all about his new New York Times best seller children's book Every Night is Pizza Night on this week's episode of Special Sauce....
Special Sauce: Kenji, Jamelle Bouie on Thanksgiving vs. the Pandemic
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Special Sauce, Serious Eats founder Ed Levine's podcast, is back to stay (with new theme music, no less) with a Thanksgiving episode that explores the...
Special Sauce: Kenji on Salting Vegetables; Farmer Maggie Cheney on CSAs and Social Justice
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Much has been written during the pandemic about the increased popularity of community supported agriculture, commonly referred to as CSA. On this week...
Special Sauce: Kenji on Smashed Burgers; Susan Spungen on Sprezzatura [2/2]
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Special Sauce, Susan Spungen, author of Open Kitchen: Inspired Food for Casual Gathering and other books, regales us with her experie...
Special Sauce: Kenji on Dried Herbs; Dan Barber on the Outlook for Small Farmers
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Special Sauce we talk to Dan Barber, executive chef and co-owner of Blue Hill, about the huge changes being brought about in the food c...
Special Sauce: Kenji on Butter; Anne Saxelby and Sheila Flanagan on Being Optimistic [2/2]
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Special Sauce we're once again talking about selling cheese during the pandemic with cheesemonger Anne Saxelby of Saxelby Cheesemongers...
Special Sauce: “Ask Kenji” Is Back! And Anne Saxelby and Sheila Flanagan on Selling Cheese During the Pandemic [1/2]
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Special Sauce we are returning to the topic of the horrendous toll the pandemic has taken on the food culture. Today, we’re talking che...
Special Sauce: Alexander Smalls on How Food and Music Nurture Hope and Connection [2/2]
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"A jukebox is the musical equivalent of a well-stocked pantry," says Alexander Smalls. Poetic riffs on the relationship between food and music are jus...
Special Sauce: After a Tony, a Grammy, and a Beard, Alexander Smalls on What’s Next [1/2]
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The last Special Sauce I recorded in a studio before the coronavirus pandemic hit was with the multi-talented chef, opera singer, and restaurateur Ale...
Special Sauce: Cookbook Author Susan Spungen on Craving Togetherness [1/2]
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Special Sauce has obviously changed a lot with the advent of the pandemic. But before we changed the format a couple of months ago to adapt to the tim...
Special Sauce: NYT’s Pete Wells on the Future of Restaurant Criticism [2/2]
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Special Sauce, New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells, who's been used to eating out six nights a week, tells us about cooking lun...
Special Sauce: NYT Restaurant Critic Pete Wells on the State of the Industry [1/2]
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does a restaurant critic do when there are no restaurants to review? The San Francisco Chronicle's Soleil Ho has shifted to primarily covering ho...
Special Sauce: Why DC-Based Restaurant Owner Ezekiel Vázquez-Ger Is Feeling Optimistic
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
According to Ezekiel Vázquez-Ger, my guest on this week's Special Sauce, everything was going swimmingly at his new Washington, DC, restaurant, Seven...
Small Businesses Need More Help Now, Says Ovenly Co-Founder Agatha Kulaga
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 2010, Agatha Kulaga and Erin Patinkin founded Ovenly, which they originally envisioned as a bar-snack business, providing bars with better alternat...
Special Sauce: Will Xi'an Famous Foods Survive the Coronavirus Lockdown?
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As part of our special Special Sauce series on the pandemic's effects on the various constituents of the food community, I reached out to Xi'an Famo...
Special Sauce: Tom Colicchio on How to Save Restaurants
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As we all try to deal with the crisis confronting us, I thought we'd follow up on the Special Sauce episodes that focused on Kenji's stories with othe...
Special Sauce: Kenji on His Food Safety Article
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's obviously still not business as usual at Serious Eats (or anywhere else in the world, for that matter), so we're going to continue to produce Spe...
Special Sauce: Kenji on Coronavirus and Its Impact on Restaurants
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Editor's note: The Coronavirus story is unfolding at a breakneck pace. That means that something said that was true at the time may no longer be so. O...
Special Sauce: Claudia Fleming on the Pitfalls of Your Passion [2/2]
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Special Sauce, I continue my conversation with visionary pastry chef Claudia Fleming. But before we get to Claudia's captivating story,...
Special Sauce: Kenji on Vegetarian Chile Verde, Claudia Fleming on Lego Desserts [1/2]
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There are forgotten giants in the food world, people who have profoundly influenced what we eat, but whose names we barely know. James Beard Award-win...
Special Sauce: Misha Collins on Pasta With Jam Sauce and Random Acts of Kindness [2/2]
14 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of my conversation with Supernatural star Misha Collins, we dive into his family's eating habits, which eventually lead to The Adventurous...
Special Sauce: Supernatural Star Misha Collins [1/2]
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of the things I love about Special Sauce is how often I am surprised and moved by my guests. And this episode, in which I interview Supernatural s...
Special Sauce: Maangchi on Being the Korean Julia Child [2/2]
31 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Special Sauce features part two of my conversation with the online cooking star Maangchi, but first we get to hear from Kenji, who answere...
Special Sauce: Kenji on Cooking for His Kid, and Maangchi on Becoming a YouTube Sensation [1/2]
23 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Maangchi. Maangchi. Maangchi! Need I say more? On this week's Special Sauce I had a chance to sit down with YouTube cooking sensation Maangchi, who, ...
Special Sauce: Sean Brock on the Distinction Between Happiness and Success [2/2]
16 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's far-ranging Special Sauce we cover a lot of territory- and I mean a lot- of territory. We've got Sean Brock on the highs and lows of ...
Special Sauce: Chef Sean Brock on the Perils of Working Too Hard [1/2]
09 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On the first new Special Sauce episode of 2020, we go deep and wide on a whole range of topics. First the insanely talented chef Sean Brock, whose new...
Ask Special Sauce: Kenji and Stella Answer Your Holiday Questions
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This year, my wife and I managed to get through Thanksgiving without any major mishaps or blow-ups. That domestic and culinary tranquility was thanks ...
Special Sauce: Kenji on Eggs, Plus Wisdom From Two Master Bakers [2/2]
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of my conversation with the extraordinary bakers Amy Scherber of Amy's Bread and Melissa Weller of High Street on Hudson, we take a deep d...
Special Sauce: Kenji on Pizza Dough; Amy Scherber and Melissa Weller on the Business of Baking [1/2]
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Special Sauce episode unintentionally turned into a carb fest. Although I knew I was having on a couple of the finest bakers in the land- ...
Ask Special Sauce: Kenji and Stella Answer Your Thanksgiving FAQs
21 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I don't know about the rest of you Thanksgiving hosts out there, but my wife and I tend to become increasingly stressed as the holiday approaches each...
Special Sauce: Kenji on Competitive Cooking; Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying on Being Gaijin [2/2]
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Special Sauce, we take a deep dive into The Gaijin Cookbook: Japanese Recipes from a Chef, Father, Eater, and Lifelong Outsider, the ne...
Special Sauce: Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying on The Gaijin Cookbook [1/2]
07 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes, my Special Sauce interviews are the best way to catch up with old friends and colleagues. I was reminded of that when Chris Ying and Ivan O...
Special Sauce: Kenji on Browning Meat, Adam Chandler on Colonel Sanders's Wild Side [2/2]
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On Special Sauce this week, I had the pleasure of continuing my deep dive into the history of fast food with Adam Chandler, the author of Drive-Thru D...
Special Sauce: Kenji on Cooking With Fish Sauce and Adam Chandler on Fast Food [1/2]
24 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Special Sauce episode kicks off with Serious Eater Marc Lampert asking Kenji about the process of cooking with ingredients packed with uma...
Special Sauce: Kenji on Freezing Chicken, Simone Tong on Making Mixian [2/2]
17 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode of Special Sauce kicks off with our new culinary Q&A segment, "Ask Kenji." At the behest of listener Dave Shorr, Kenji lays do...
Special Sauce: Kenji on Cooking With Starch, Simone Tong on the Ingredient She Hates [1/2]
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Special Sauce kicks off with our new culinary Q&A segment, "Ask Kenji." This time around, Kenji schools us and serious eater Paul Ande...
Special Sauce 2.0: Kenji on Grilling Naan and Nicholas Morgenstern on Sundaes [2/2]
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For the first segment of this episode of Special Sauce 2.0, Kenji takes a question from serious eater Phil on how to make naan in a Big Green Egg. It ...
Special Sauce: Introducing Special Sauce 2.0, with guest Nick Morgenstern [1/2]
20 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week Serious Eaters get to see the all-new Special Sauce format we've cooked up for the new season. Every episode of Special Sauce 2.0 will start...
Special Sauce: Author Tom Roston on Post-9/11 New York as Victim and Survivor [2/2]
20 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Part two of my at times emotionally overwhelming interview with Tom Roston, author of The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, W...
Special Sauce: Tom Roston on the Untold Stories of Windows on the World [1/2]
13 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
No matter where you were when the two planes hit the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, you were profoundly affected by the events of that day. And if...
Special Sauce: Soleil Ho on Representation in Food Media [2/2]
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of my thought-provoking interview with San Francisco Chronicle restaurant critic Soleil Ho, we dove right into how she thinks about resta...
Special Sauce: Soleil Ho on Her Journey From Quantum Physics to Racist Sandwich [1/2]
22 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Like a great deal of food media in America, the world of restaurant criticism has a long history of hiring white writers and closing its doors to pe...
Special Sauce: Matt Rodbard and Max Falkowitz on What's Next in Food Media [2/2]
15 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of Ed Levine's conversation with Max Falkowitz and Matt Rodbard, the three discuss how Falkowitz and Rodbard got started in food media an...
Special Sauce: Matt Rodbard and Max Falkowitz on Becoming Food Writers [1/2]
08 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the next two episodes of Special Sauce, we take a deep dive into the challenges and triumphs of building a career in food media. I invited former S...
Special Sauce: Lazarus Lynch on Writing Son of a Southern Chef [2/2]
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of Ed Levine's conversation with Lazarus Lynch, who goes by more titles than any 25-year-old has any reasonable expectation to have (cookb...
Special Sauce: Lazarus Lynch on Cooking on Camera and Being Okay With Who You Are [1/2]
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Singer, author (Son of a Southern Chef), and food personality Lazarus Lynch is not your typical cookbook writer or social media star. As an openly gay...
Special Sauce: Alvin Cailan on What “American Food” Means in 2019 [2/2]
18 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In part 2 of my extraordinary chat with chef-restaurateur-activist Alvin Cailan, we delved deeply into his socio-political motivations, but we still m...
Special Sauce: Eggslut’s Alvin Cailan on Ruckus-Causing as a Career Path [1/2]
11 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Every now and then on Special Sauce, I just hit it off with a guest, feeling immediately as if I've known them all my life. That's what happened when ...
Special Sauce Live, Ed Levine Edition: Serious Eats Lives! [2/2]
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back for the second part of Special Sauce with Ed Levine, featuring Ed Levine! This week we pick up where we left off, with Danny Meyer, CEO ...
Special Sauce Live, Ed Levine Edition: A Serious Eater Is Born! [1/2]
27 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
At the end of every week, Ed Levine- a.k.a. Serious Eats founder, a.k.a. Serious Eats overlord, a.k.a. "missionary of the delicious," a.k.a. Ed "The G...
Special Sauce: Nik Sharma on the Kitchen as Laboratory [2/2]
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, in part two of my conversation with chef and food writer Nik Sharma, we dug into the science-based approach to cooking that informs his ter...
Special Sauce: Nik Sharma on the Stories Told by Seasoning [1/2]
14 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cookbook author (Seasons: Big Flavors, Beautiful Food), blogger (A Brown Table), and newspaper columnist (A Brown Kitchen) Nik Sharma made the perfect...
Special Sauce: Priya Krishna on Cooking and Being "Indian-ish" [2/2]
06 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of my delightful conversation with Priya Krishna, she delves into her book Indian-ish: Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family i...
Priya Krishna on Special Sauce: How Indian-ish Came to Be [1/2]
30 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I knew that Priya Krishna, author of Indian-ish: Recipes and Antics From a Modern American Family (I am predisposed to like any book with the word an...
Special Sauce: Joe Yonan on Charting Your Own Path [2/2]
24 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of my far-ranging interview with Washington Post food editor Joe Yonan, we talked about his career in journalism and the ever-evolving wor...
Special Sauce: Food Editor Joe Yonan on Finding the Color of His Parachute [1/2]
16 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's always fun to have a longtime friend on Special Sauce because I always learn so much about the person sitting across from me, no matter how long ...
Special Sauce: Jason Wang on Building a Xi'an Famous Foods Empire [2/2]
09 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of my conversation with Xi'an Famous Foods cofounder Jason Wang, he and I talked mostly about the struggles and challenges involved in fir...
Special Sauce: Jason Wang on the Origins of Xi’an Famous Foods [1/2]
02 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
One of the many reasons I love doing Special Sauce is I get to interview people who shed light on various parts of the food culture I know very little...
Special Sauce: Kwame Onwuachi's Journey From Setbacks to Success Story [2/2]
25 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When we last left chef and memoirist Kwame Onwuachi, he had dived back into his catering business in New York City. Business was decent, but he’d b...
Kwame Onwuachi on Special Sauce: Notes From a Young Black Chef [1/2]
19 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Special Sauce guest, chef-restaurateur (Kith/Kin in Washington, DC) and memoirist (Notes From a Young Black Chef) Kwame Onwuachi, has led ...
Special Sauce: Allison and Matt Robicelli on Moving to Baltimore [2/2]
11 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When we last left the irreverent Robicellis in the first part of their Special Sauce interview, they had decided to leave Brooklyn, their beloved home...
Special Sauce: Matt and Allison Robicelli on Cupcakes and the Bonds of Suffering [1/2]
04 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes our Special Sauce guests are just so idiosyncratic, so entertaining, so thoughtful, and so zany, I find myself alternately laughing and near...
Special Sauce: Tommy Tomlinson on Asking for Help When You Need It [2/2]
28 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of my wonderful conversation with Tommy Tomlinson, author of the impossible-to-put-down book The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest...
Special Sauce: Tommy Tomlinson on Untangling Food, Love, and Loving Food [1/2]
21 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's pretty rare for a Special Sauce interview to speak so directly to me that it feels like I've been hit in the gut. But that's exactly what happene...
Special Sauce: Osayi Endolyn on the Legacy of Southern Fried Chicken [2/2]
14 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The superb young food and culture writer Osayi Endolyn is back again for this week's episode of Special Sauce. This time our far-reaching conversation...
Special Sauce: Osayi Endolyn on Nigerian Food, Writing, and Identity [1/2]
07 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's episode of Special Sauce, Ed speaks to Osayi Endolyn, a Florida-based food writer whose work regularly appears in major food publicatio...
Special Sauce: “Is Deep Dish Pizza a Casserole?” And Other Pressing Pizza Questions [2/2]
28 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to part 2 of Ed Levine's Special Sauce conversation about pizza in the wake of the revelation by pizza historian Peter Regas about the tr...
Special Sauce: Uncovering Pizza's US Origins [1/2]
19 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We rarely deal with breaking news on Special Sauce, but when said news concerns pizza's US origins, exceptions must be made. As soon as I learned that...
Special Sauce: Doug Crowell and Ryan Angulo on the Importance of Kindness (and Salt) [2/2]
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Special Sauce, Doug Crowell and Ryan Angulo talk a lot about a lot of things, including their cookbook, the aptly titled Kindness and S...
Special Sauce: Doug Crowell and Ryan Angulo on the Neighborhood Restaurant [1/2]
07 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I am constantly on the lookout for good neighborhood restaurants. The kind of restaurants that treat me like a regular even if I'm not; where the host...
Special Sauce: Chef Anita Lo on Cooking for Yourself [2/2]
31 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Special Sauce, Chef Anita Lo talks about her new cookbook, Solo: A Modern Cookbook for a Party of One. To Anita, cooking for yourself i...
Special Sauce: Chef Anita Lo on Cooking for Michelle Obama [1/2]
25 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Special Sauce with the terrific chef and fine writer Anita Lo. Anita had Annisa, a great restaurant in Greenwich Village, for 16 years be...
Special Sauce: The White Moustache’s Homa Dashtaki on Staying Small and Flourishing [2/2]
18 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s Special Sauce I continue my delightful conversation with The White Moustache founder Homa Dashtaki. I asked her how she makes her s...