On this week’s Special Sauce, seminal food blogger, pastry chef, and author David Lebovitz and I took a trip back into the past. And we had a blast. David worked in the Chez Panisse kitchen for 13 years before he realized it was time to leave. “I left…
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My guest on this week’s Special Sauce is the extraordinary blogger, author, and pastry chef David Lebovitz, whose latest book is . David and I started off our conversation with the early days of blogging, and I asked him about whether he had ever…
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Listening to Roads and Kingdom co-founder Matt Goulding talk about the food culture in Italy on this week’s Special Sauce was a real treat for me. Matt spent months eating his way through the country for his extraordinary new book, , and he explains…
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In part 2 of my conversation with the remarkable chef and writer Edward Lee, we take a deep dive into his terrific new memoir-with-recipes . Lee writes in the book, “Much of what we think of as traditional American cuisine is being challenged….
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Having chef and memoirist Edward Lee on Special Sauce was the happiest of accidents. Sitting on top of a pile of books on Special Sauce associate producer Marissa Chen’s desk was Lee’s evocative and moving memoir, . I read a chapter, was…
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In part 2 of the Special Sauce interview with artist and author Maira Kalman, we were joined by Barbara Scott-Goodman, who co-authored
I don’t know how many serious eaters have heard of the brilliant, food-loving, and thought-provoking artist and writer Maira Kalman, but I’ve been a huge fan of hers for a long time now. So when I heard that she had recently co-written (with Barbara…
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In part two of my terrific interview with ‘s Deb Perelman, we move from the creation of her blog into book writing (her second book was just published in October 2017), and how social media has (or hasn’t) changed what she does. The first thing I…
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A week after sitting down with of , I got to reminisce with another seminal food blogger: Deb Perelman of . Deb started Smitten Kitchen in 2006, the same year that Serious Eats launched. Twelve years later, Smitten Kitchen has millions of…
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At the end of part 1 of my Special Sauce interview with Elise Bauer, she had just described starting in 2004 after coming home to live with her parents in Sacramento to recover from a serious case of chronic fatigue syndrome, and in this week’s…
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Welcome to Special Sauce, a James Beard–nominated podcast hosted by Serious Eats founder Ed Levine.
Join us each week for intimate conversations about food and life between Ed and well-known food lovers like Calvin Trillin, Ruth Reichl, and Chris Kimball.