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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/famou... Read more

Ranked #1

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The Team Behind Knife Skills, the Oscar-Nominated Documentary [1/2]

The Team Behind Knife Skills, the Oscar-Nominated Documentary [1/2]

We don't usually make a big deal about the Oscars on Special Sauce, but when I saw the brilliant Oscar-nominated documen... Read more

1 Mar 2018

44mins

Ranked #2

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[Rerun] Ask Special Sauce: Kenji and Stella Troubleshoot Your Thanksgiving (2017)

[Rerun] Ask Special Sauce: Kenji and Stella Troubleshoot Your Thanksgiving (2017)

When I was mulling over what we could do on Special Sauce for Thanksgiving, I immediately thought about stress reduction... Read more

21 Nov 2018

38mins

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Ivan Orkin on Love, Loss, and the Tastiest Chicken Bits

Ivan Orkin on Love, Loss, and the Tastiest Chicken Bits

In this first part of a Special Sauce double-header, Ivan Orkin, of Ivan Ramen and Slurp Shop in NYC, talks about life b... Read more

3 Feb 2017

34mins

Ranked #4

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Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman on Not Pretending to Be Perfect [1/2]

Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman on Not Pretending to Be Perfect [1/2]

A week after sitting down with Elise Bauer of Simply Recipes, I got to reminisce with another seminal food blogger: Deb ... Read more

2 May 2018

35mins

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Ranked #5

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Chris Bianco, the Poet Laureate of Pizza

Chris Bianco, the Poet Laureate of Pizza

My guest on this week's Special Sauce is Chris Bianco, the man who makes my favorite pizza in the world. The pies he put... Read more

25 Aug 2017

34mins

Ranked #6

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Mario Batali on the Joys of Pig Jell-O

Mario Batali on the Joys of Pig Jell-O

"Hot pig Jell-O" may not sound like a draw to most people, but that's exactly how Mario Batali describes the headcheese ... Read more

31 Mar 2017

35mins

Ranked #7

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Sara Moulton on Leftovers, College Gig, and Not Looking for Attention [1/2]

Sara Moulton on Leftovers, College Gig, and Not Looking for Attention [1/2]

This week's guest on Special Sauce is food television personality and pioneering chef Sara Moulton, who is as unpretenti... Read more

5 Apr 2018

38mins

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Special Sauce: Uncovering Pizza's US Origins [1/2]

Special Sauce: Uncovering Pizza's US Origins [1/2]

We rarely deal with breaking news on Special Sauce, but when said news concerns pizza's US origins, exceptions must be m... Read more

19 Feb 2019

41mins

Ranked #9

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Dan Barber on Mentors, Tough Love, and Anger Management

Dan Barber on Mentors, Tough Love, and Anger Management

I think it's safe to say that Dan Barber, the visionary chef of Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns, has led an inter... Read more

28 Apr 2017

28mins

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Resy's Ben Leventhal on the Growing Pains of Internet Start-Ups [2/2]

Resy's Ben Leventhal on the Growing Pains of Internet Start-Ups [2/2]

When Resy's Ben Leventhal, who has been involved in at least five food-related start-ups, speaks about entrepreneurship,... Read more

11 Jan 2018

33mins

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Author and Playwright Jenny Allen on Chocolate Mousse and Writing Funny [1/2]

Author and Playwright Jenny Allen on Chocolate Mousse and Writing Funny [1/2]

Jenny Allen, the humorist and author of the guffaw-inducing new book Would Everybody Please Stop: Reflections on Life an... Read more

19 Jan 2018

30mins

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Ivan Orkin on Slurping, the State of Ramen in the U.S., and More

Ivan Orkin on Slurping, the State of Ramen in the U.S., and More

On this week's Special Sauce, I continue my far-reaching conversation with great cook and ramen master, Ivan Orkin, aka ... Read more

10 Feb 2017

26mins

Ranked #13

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Special (Pizza) Sauce: Adam Kuban and Scott Wiener Talk Pie [1/3]

Special (Pizza) Sauce: Adam Kuban and Scott Wiener Talk Pie [1/3]

For the next three weeks on Special Sauce I will be geeking out about pizza with Adam Kuban and Scott Wiener, two of the... Read more

16 Aug 2018

44mins

Ranked #14

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Special Sauce: Kenji on Cooking With Fish Sauce and Adam Chandler on Fast Food [1/2]

Special Sauce: Kenji on Cooking With Fish Sauce and Adam Chandler on Fast Food [1/2]

This week's Special Sauce episode kicks off with Serious Eater Marc Lampert asking Kenji about the process of cooking wi... Read more

24 Oct 2019

33mins

Ranked #15

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Fuchsia Dunlop on Her Enduring Love Affair With Chinese Cooking

Fuchsia Dunlop on Her Enduring Love Affair With Chinese Cooking

What a story: A young, food-obsessed British student at Cambridge University named Fuchsia (God, I love that name) heads... Read more

14 Jul 2017

42mins

Ranked #16

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Elise Bauer on Turning a Food Blog Into a Business [2/2]

Elise Bauer on Turning a Food Blog Into a Business [2/2]

At the end of part 1 of my Special Sauce interview with Elise Bauer, she had just described starting Simply Recipes in 2... Read more

27 Apr 2018

34mins

Ranked #17

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Sam Kass on Cooking for the Obamas [1/2]

Sam Kass on Cooking for the Obamas [1/2]

All right, I admit it: I've always fantasized about having one of the Obamas as a guest on Special Sauce. And while I ha... Read more

3 Aug 2018

34mins

Ranked #18

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Ask Special Sauce: Kenji and Stella Answer Your Thanksgiving FAQs

Ask Special Sauce: Kenji and Stella Answer Your Thanksgiving FAQs

I don't know about the rest of you Thanksgiving hosts out there, but my wife and I tend to become increasingly stressed ... Read more

21 Nov 2019

37mins

Ranked #19

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David Lebovitz on Renovating His Home in Paris [1/2]

David Lebovitz on Renovating His Home in Paris [1/2]

My guest on this week's Special Sauce is the extraordinary blogger, author, and pastry chef David Lebovitz, whose latest... Read more

21 Jun 2018

35mins

Ranked #20

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Ask Special Sauce: Kenji and Stella Answer Your Holiday Questions

Ask Special Sauce: Kenji and Stella Answer Your Holiday Questions

This year, my wife and I managed to get through Thanksgiving without any major mishaps or blow-ups. That domestic and cu... Read more

19 Dec 2019

36mins

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