Season 2

Special Sauce: Jonathan Gold on How to Jonathan Gold Someone

In this episode of Special Sauce - which, I must warn you, is a bit NSFW, unless you're surrounded by some really adventurous eaters with good senses of humor - Gold, Gabbert, and I discuss our shared passion for music and why there...

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Special Sauce: Marco Canora on Keeping Calm Under Fire

This week, Canora discusses what he thinks restaurateurs and diners misunderstand about the service industry. You'll learn about how he deals with those issues, his guilty pleasures, and why sometimes it's good to have someone remind you to just calm...

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Special Sauce: Tom Colicchio on the 3 Things Every Chef Should Know

This week, Colicchio discusses three key things he's learned over the course of his career — the things he thinks every aspiring chef should keep in mind. You'll learn about how a prison library book pushed Colicchio into the kitchen, and how...

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Special Sauce: Tom Colicchio Part 2 on Hunger, Guitar, and His Favorite Food Lab Recipe

Colicchio is a passionate guitar player and music aficionado, as you'll hear when he sings one of the riffs in the Stevie Ray Vaughan song that we want to use as the Special Sauce theme song in the near future. We also chatted about his seminal book,...

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Special Sauce: Dorie Greenspan Says, “Don’t Start Baking With Your Sister’s Wedding Cake”

"Don't start with your sister's wedding cake," suggests baker and author Dorie Greenspan on this week's episode of Special Sauce. Greenspan has come far from the self-described "sweet little home baker" that she once was, and has a lot of advice for...

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Special Sauce: Brooks Headley Wants You to Call Your Mom. Really. Right Now.

Brooks Headley, the punk-rocking, vegetable-whispering owner of Superiority Burger in NYC, says he's "almost insistent upon only being in bands with extremely volatile characters, myself included." In this week's episode of Special Sauce, I talk with...

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Special Sauce: Francis Lam on American Identity and Chrissy Teigen’s Mac and Cheese

In this episode of Special Sauce, Lam and I discuss how he tends to "go for the cheeks" and why his parents are proud of him for doing so. He also talks about how normal it is for writers to hate writing—but why he still encourages aspiring authors...

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Special Sauce: Dan Pashman on Arguing for Fun and His Mother’s Fajita Obsession

In this episode, we get into some Sporkful-inspired debates about the purpose of hot dog buns and the ideal shape of pie. We discuss the divide in the podcasting world, as well as what makes his often contrarian—and always funny—show great.

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