Resy’s Ben Leventhal on the Growing Pains of Internet Start-Ups [2/2]
When 's Ben Leventhal, who has been involved in at least five food-related start-ups, speaks about entrepreneurship, I am all ears. Here are just a couple of the pearls of wisdom that came out of our in-depth conversation: "What I do try to say to...
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 and Other Bad...
Jenny Allen on the Joy of Eating a Turkey Burger All by Yourself [2/2]
Here's how the delightful and brave Jenny Allen describes the food at her family table in Part 2 of her Special Sauce interview: "Such bad food...and so little of it." As that quote can attest, you can be sure there's no shortage of pithy insights or...
JJ Johnson on Embracing the Food of the African Diaspora [1/2]
My guest this week on Special Sauce is chef and cookbook author Joseph "JJ" Johnson. When I say he gravitated to kitchen work at an early age, I mean really early. He started cooking with his grandmother when he was four: "I didn't really watch...
JJ Johnson on Hoops With Steph Curry and the Pleasures of Rice [2/2]
In part 2 of my interview with JJ Johnson, the charismatic chef and co-author of , I had to ask him to explain the book's lengthy subtitle word by word, and to explain what he and his co-author Alexander Smalls set out to do with it. The book, JJ...
Phil Rosenthal Is Anthony Bourdain, Except Afraid of Everything [1/2]
My friend Phil Rosenthal, the creator and host of the new Netflix show is as much fun to talk to as he is to eat with. When I asked him how the show ended up on Netflix, he replied, "The way I sold the show...I said, 'I'm exactly like Anthony...
Phil Rosenthal on Stepping Out of His Comfort Zone [2/2]
Back in the day, we used to say that Serious Eats was a website focused on celebrating and sharing our enthusiasm for food with the online community. In Part 2 of my interview with fellow food enthusiast Phil Rosenthal, he reveals that , his new...
Eater Cofounder Ben Leventhal on the Early Days of Web 2.0 [1/2]
The members list of the non-existent Digital Food Entrepreneur's Club would be quite small, but it would have to include Ben Leventhal, who is both this and next week's guest on Special Sauce. Ben cofounded in 2005 and is now one of the...