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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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Signup to Generate a PitchSerious 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.
Special Sauce with Ed Levine is hosted by Ed Levine. The show has published 479 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Notes from the Kitchen: NY's Immigrant Restaurant Workers Speak" (30 October 2026, 41 minutes), "Top of the World: A Great New Documentary" (23 October 2026, 40 minutes), and "Jacques Pepin Part 2: Jacques on Julia & Much More" (16 October 2026, 29 minutes).
Special Sauce with Ed Levine publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 38 minutes across 479 episodes.
Booking probability for Special Sauce with Ed Levine is 38%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Special Sauce with Ed Levine requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Special Sauce with Ed Levine's contact route on record: verified email.
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Ed Levine hosts Special Sauce with Ed Levine, an arts podcast with 479 episodes published.
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Special Sauce with Ed Levine
In this episode of Special Sauce we explore the vital roles immigrants play in restaurant kitchens all over America with chef and restaurateur Marc Meyer, the editor of the important book " Voices from the Kitchen...
Special Sauce with Ed Levine
On this episode of Special Sauce we talk to the fine documentarian Betsy West and chef Michael Lomanoco about West's superb new film " Top of the World" . The film tells the heartbreaking story of Windows on the World...
Special Sauce with Ed Levine
For Jacques Pépin , cooking has always been about bringing people together and sharing the basic skills to make something delicious. This week we return to my conversation with the legendary chef which we recorded at...
Special Sauce with Ed Levine
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...
Special Sauce with Ed Levine
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...
Special Sauce with Ed Levine
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...
Special Sauce with Ed Levine
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...
Special Sauce with Ed Levine
This week on Special Sauce , reporter Heather Haddon and columnist Adam Chandler of The Wall Street Journal give us the lowdown on why securing a restaurant reservation is damn near impossible these days. Learn about...
Special Sauce with Ed Levine
There are quite a few beautiful Dolly Parton remembrances that have been published since her death, but only one that talked about Dolly's love of food and the many contributions Parton made to the food culture. Today's...
Special Sauce with Ed Levine
This week the terrific writer and podcaster Tommy Tomlinson gives us a poignant and hopeful update on his lifelong battle with his weight. Thanks to GLP-1 drugs he has lost more than 130 pounds in the last 2 years...
Special Sauce with Ed Levine
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...
Special Sauce with Ed Levine
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...
Special Sauce with Ed Levine
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...
Special Sauce with Ed Levine
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...
Special Sauce with Ed Levine
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...
Special Sauce with Ed Levine
If there is a smarter or better TV critic than T he 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...
Special Sauce with Ed Levine
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...
Special Sauce with Ed Levine
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...
Special Sauce with Ed Levine
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 team's amazing playoff...
Special Sauce with Ed Levine
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 team's amazing playoff...
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