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…

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…

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…

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…

In part two of my interview with Andrew Friedman, the author of Chefs, Drugs, and Rock & Roll, he and I take a…

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 &…

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…

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…

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…

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…