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Ed Levine is the founder of Serious Eats, as well as creator and host of the Serious Eats podcast, Special Sauce. In 2016, Ed was inducted into the James Beard Foundation's Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America.

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Special Sauce: Kenji on Salting Vegetables; Farmer Maggie Cheney on CSAs and Social Justice

Ed Levine in conversation with farmer Maggie Cheney.

Ed Levine
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Special Sauce: Kenji on Smashed Burgers; Susan Spungen on Sprezzatura

Ed Levine in conversation with cookbook author Susan Spungen.

Ed Levine
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Special Sauce: Kenji on Dried Herbs; Dan Barber on the Outlook for Small Farmers

Ed Levine and Dan Barber talk about the impact of the pandemic on small farms.

Ed Levine
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Special Sauce: Kenji on Butter; Anne Saxelby and Sheila Flanagan on Being Optimistic

Ed Levine
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Special Sauce: Anne Saxelby and Sheila Flanagan on Selling Cheese During the Pandemic

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Podcast

Alexander Smalls on How Food and Music Nurture Hope and Connection

Chef, restaurateur, opera singer, cookbook author—Alexander Smalls is a multi-talented man.

Ed Levine
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Special Sauce: After a Tony, a Grammy, and a Beard, Alexander Smalls on What’s Next

Chef Alexander Smalls speaks with Ed Levine about his storied career.

Ed Levine
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Special Sauce: Cookbook Author Susan Spungen on Craving Togetherness

Ed Levine in conversation with author Susan Spungen.

Ed Levine
Podcast

Special Sauce: NYT’s Pete Wells on the Future of Restaurant Criticism

Part two of Ed Levine's conversation with NYT restaurant critic Pete Wells.

Ed Levine
Podcast

Special Sauce: NYT Restaurant Critic Pete Wells on the State of the Industry

NYT restaurant critic Pete Wells on how coronavirus has changed the restaurant industry.

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Podcast

Special Sauce: Why DC-Based Restaurant Owner Ezekiel Vázquez-Ger Is Feeling Optimistic

Ed Levine in conversation with Seven Reasons owner Ezekiel Vasquez

Ed Levine
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Special Sauce: Small Businesses Need More Help Now, Says Ovenly Co-Founder Agatha Kulaga

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Special Sauce: Will Xi'an Famous Foods Survive the Coronavirus Lockdown?

Ed Levine talks to Jason Wang of Xi'an Famous Foods about the impact of coronavirus.

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Podcast

Special Sauce: Tom Colicchio on How to Save Restaurants

Ed Levine in conversation with Tom Colicchio about how to save restaurants.

Ed Levine
Podcast

Special Sauce: Kenji on His Food Safety Article

Kenji on food safety during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Special Sauce: Kenji on Coronavirus and Its Impact on Restaurants

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Special Sauce: Claudia Fleming on the Pitfalls of Your Passion

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Special Sauce: Kenji on Vegetarian Chile Verde; Claudia Fleming on Lego Desserts; BraveTart on Banana Bread

Part 1 of Ed Levine's interview with Chef Claudia Fleming.

Ed Levine
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Special Sauce: Misha Collins on Pasta With Jam Sauce and Random Acts of Kindness

Part 2 of Ed Levine's conversation with Misha Collins.

Ed Levine
Podcast

Special Sauce: Supernatural Star Misha Collins

Part 1 of Ed Levine's conversation with actor and cookbook author Misha Collins.

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Special Sauce: Maangchi on Being the Korean Julia Child

Part 2 of Ed Levine's conversation with Maangchi.

Ed Levine
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Special Sauce: Maangchi on Becoming a YouTube Sensation

The first part of Ed Levine's conversation with YouTube sensation Maangchi.

Ed Levine
Podcast

Special Sauce: Sean Brock on the Distinction Between Happiness and Success

Part 2 of Ed Levine's conversation with Chef Sean Brock.

Ed Levine
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Special Sauce: Chef Sean Brock on the Perils of Working Too Hard

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Podcast

Ed's Favorite Special Sauce Episodes of 2019

Ed Levine's favorite Special Sauce Episodes of 2019.

Ed Levine
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Ask Special Sauce: Kenji and Stella Answer Your Holiday Questions

Ed, Stella, and Kenji gather together to answer your most pressing holiday cooking questions.

Ed Levine
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Special Sauce: Kenji on Eggs, Plus Wisdom From Two Master Bakers

Catch part two of Ed Levine's conversation with bakers extraordinaire Amy Scherber (Amy's Bread) and Melissa Weller (High Street on Hudson).

Ed Levine
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Special Sauce: Kenji on Pizza Dough; Amy Scherber and Melissa Weller on the Business of Baking

Ed Levine in conversation with Amy Scherber and Melissa Weller.

Ed Levine
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Ask Special Sauce: Kenji and Stella Answer Your Thanksgiving FAQs

Ed Levine has Kenji Lopez-Alt and Stella Parks on the Special Sauce podcast to answer our readers' most pressing Thanksgiving questions.

Ed Levine
Features

Special Sauce: Kenji on Competitive Cooking; Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying on Being Gaijin

Ed Levine
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Special Sauce: Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying on The Gaijin Cookbook

Ivan Orkin and Chris Ying in conversation with Ed Levine.

Ed Levine
Features

Special Sauce: Kenji on Browning Meat, Adam Chandler on Colonel Sanders's Wild Side

Ed talks with his guests about fast food origin stories and why we brown meat for a sauce.

Ed Levine
Features

Special Sauce: Kenji on Cooking With Fish Sauce and Adam Chandler on Fast Food

Author Adam Chandler on his book about fast food.

Ed Levine
Features

Special Sauce: Kenji on Freezing Chicken, Simone Tong on Making Mixian

The accomplished chef behind Little Tong Noodle Shop, plus Kenji on the best way to freeze chicken, and Stella on her Levain-style cookies.

Ed Levine
Features

Special Sauce: Kenji on Cooking With Starch, Simone Tong on the Ingredient She Hates

Ed talks with the chef behind Little Tong Noodle Shop, gets schooled on starchy thickeners, and spies on a trapizzino lesson.

Ed Levine
Features

Special Sauce 2.0: Kenji on Grilling Naan and Nicholas Morgenstern on Sundaes

Ed Levine
Podcast

Special Sauce: Introducing Special Sauce 2.0

A new Special Sauce format, and the king of ice cream, Nick Morgenstern.

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Features

Special Sauce: Author Tom Roston on Post-9/11 New York as Victim and Survivor

Ed continues his conversation with author Tom Roston about the profound impact of 9/11 on the Windows on the World family.

Ed Levine
Features

Special Sauce: Tom Roston on the Untold Stories of Windows on the World

Author Tom Roston on the famous restaurant at the top of the World Trade Center, and the lives in its orbit that were lost on 9/11.

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Features

Special Sauce: Soleil Ho on Representation in Food Media

Ed Levine talks to San Francisco Chronicle restaurant critic Soleil Ho about the importance of language in food writing.

Ed Levine
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Special Sauce: Soleil Ho on Her Journey From Quantum Physics to Racist Sandwich

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Serious Eats Through the Years: Our Early Days, in Photos

A photographic trip down Serious Eats memory lane, from 2007 to 2015.

Ed Levine
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Special Sauce: Matt Rodbard and Max Falkowitz on Becoming Food Writers

Ed Levine
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Special Sauce: Lazarus Lynch on Cooking on Camera and Being Okay With Who You Are

The cookbook author and social media star talks about his first cooking show, coming out to his parents, and more.

Ed Levine
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The Best Pizza Slices in New York City

The New York pizza slice has entered a new golden age, and these are the 26 slices that prove it.

Ed Levine
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Special Sauce: Alvin Cailan on What "American Food" Means in 2019

Part 2 of Ed Levine's Special Sauce conversation with chef Alvin Cailan.

Ed Levine
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Special Sauce: Eggslut’s Alvin Cailan on Ruckus-Causing as a Career Path

The Eggslut founder on his first kitchen job and the surprise career boost he got from a famous critic.

Ed Levine
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Special Sauce: Nik Sharma on the Kitchen as Laboratory

Cookbook author and food writer Nik Sharma talks to host Ed Levine about celebrating failures in the kitchen in this week's episode of the Special Sauce podcast.

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