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…
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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…
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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…
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Jenny Allen, the humorist and author of the guffaw-inducing new book Would Everybody Please Stop: Reflections on Life and Other Bad…
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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…
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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…
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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.