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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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- 2 days ago32 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
- 1 weeks ago35 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
- 2 weeks ago36 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
- 3 weeks ago41 min
'The Elephant in the Room' Revisited with Tommy Tomlinson
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. Tommy and I share our GLP-1 drug experiences. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
- Aug 21, 202643 min
Why Are Goldbud Peaches the Best?
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
- Aug 14, 202641 min
The Big Cheese: A Movie About Cheesemongering
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
- Aug 7, 202645 min
Reheating Ramen with Sho Spaeth
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 power of ramen! Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
- Jul 31, 202644 min
Reheating Some Yemeni Coffee
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: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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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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