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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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- 1 weeks ago39 min
Top of the World: A Great New Documentary
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, the restaurant on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center that was destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
- 2 weeks ago28 min
Jacques Pepin Part 2: Jacques on Julia & Much More
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 Jacques' home in Connecticut. We were joined by his daughter Claudine and his son-in-law Roland "Rollie" Wesen. We talked about Jacques' journey from France to America, the essential role of immigrants in American food culture, and the family's foundation which helps people build new lives through cooking. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
- 3 weeks ago28 min
Jacques Pépin Part 1: The Legend at 90+
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 the time to talk. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
- Oct 2, 202635 min
Susie Essman Reheat: An Oldie but a Goodie
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, Jon Stewart and Chris Rock. It's one of my favorite Special Sauce interviews ever! Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
- Sep 25, 202640 min
Meherwan Irani: Indian Street Food Evangelist
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 about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
- Sep 18, 202632 min
ICE in Chicago: Still Destroying Food People's Lives
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
- Sep 11, 202635 min
Restaurant Reservation Insanity
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 your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
- Sep 4, 202636 min
Dolly Parton: Working Class Food Hero
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 guest on Special Sauce, Amy McCarthy, former Eater writer and editor and one of Ravenous' employee owners, wrote that smart and thoughtful piece about Dolly, so smart and thoughtful I thought she could come on the show and talk about it. Amy turned out to be the perfect Special Sauce guest. Long Live Dolly Parton. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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