The Knife Skills Team and Life After the Oscars [2/2]
It's been several days since the Oscars, and I'll admit it: I was keenly disappointed when Knife Skills didn't win for Best Documentary Short. But now that I've had a few days to reflect on the Oscars as a...
Author Andrew Friedman on Chefs, Drugs, and Rock & Roll [1/2]
No writer has spent more time working and hanging out with great chefs than Andrew Friedman. So when I heard that his long-awaited book chronicling chef culture in the US—Chefs, Drugs, and Rock &...
Andrew Friedman on the Evolution of Chef Culture in America [2/2]
In part two of my interview with Andrew Friedman, the author of Chefs, Drugs, and Rock & Roll, he and I take a...
Roads & Kingdoms’ Matt Goulding On Moms, Tweets, and Bourdain [1/2]
As you can probably tell, I love interviewing people for Special Sauce. That's because we book guests who have compelling food-related stories to share with us. But co-founder and author Matt Goulding had so many interesting things to say about food...
Sara Moulton on Leftovers, College Gig, and Not Looking for Attention [1/2]
This week's guest on Special Sauce is food television personality and pioneering chef Sara Moulton, who is as unpretentious as she is accomplished. And when I say accomplished I mean accomplished. Sara is currently the host of the PBS series and...
Sara Moulton on Why Female Chefs Should Head West [2/2]
In part 2 of my Special Sauce interview with Sara Moulton, she plunges headfirst into the issues women face as chefs. "When I first moved to New York...I couldn't get a job. But not only that, about every five years there'd be an article in the New...
Simply Recipes’ Elise Bauer on Alcatraz Swims and Blogging as Medicine [1/2]
My guest on this week's Special Sauce is founder Elise Bauer, who was a veteran of Silicon Valley start-ups long before she started her blog. "In the late '90's I worked with a start-up and helped raise $35 million on Wall Street for what was similar...
The Team Behind Knife Skills, the Oscar-Nominated Documentary [1/2]
We don't usually make a big deal about the Oscars on Special Sauce, but when I saw the brilliant Oscar-nominated documentary short Knife Skills, I knew I wanted to talk about it. The film shows what happens...