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Special Sauce: Kenji on Butter; Anne Saxelby and Sheila Flanagan on Being Optimistic [2/2]

On this week's Special Sauce we're once again talking about selling cheese during the pandemic with cheesemonger Anne Saxelby of Saxelby Cheesemonger…

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Special Sauce: “Ask Kenji” Is Back! And Anne Saxelby and Sheila Flanagan on Selling Cheese During the Pandemic [1/2]

This week on Special Sauce we are returning to the topic of the horrendous toll the pandemic has taken on the food culture. Today, we’re talking chee…

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Special Sauce: Alexander Smalls on How Food and Music Nurture Hope and Connection [2/2]

"A jukebox is the musical equivalent of a well-stocked pantry," says Alexander Smalls. Poetic riffs on the relationship between food and music are ju…

5 years, 11 months ago

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Special Sauce: After a Tony, a Grammy, and a Beard, Alexander Smalls on What’s Next [1/2]

The last Special Sauce I recorded in a studio before the coronavirus pandemic hit was with the multi-talented chef, opera singer, and restaurateur Al…

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Special Sauce: Cookbook Author Susan Spungen on Craving Togetherness [1/2]

Special Sauce has obviously changed a lot with the advent of the pandemic. But before we changed the format a couple of months ago to adapt to the ti…

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Special Sauce: NYT’s Pete Wells on the Future of Restaurant Criticism [2/2]

On this week's Special Sauce, New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells, who's been used to eating out six nights a week, tells us about cooking lu…

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Special Sauce: NYT Restaurant Critic Pete Wells on the State of the Industry [1/2]

What does a restaurant critic do when there are no restaurants to review? The San Francisco Chronicle's Soleil Ho has shifted to primarily covering h…

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

According to Ezekiel Vázquez-Ger, my guest on this week's Special Sauce, everything was going swimmingly at his new Washington, DC, restaurant, Seven…

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Small Businesses Need More Help Now, Says Ovenly Co-Founder Agatha Kulaga

In 2010, Agatha Kulaga and Erin Patinkin founded Ovenly, which they originally envisioned as a bar-snack business, providing bars with better alterna…

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

As part of our special Special Sauce series on the pandemic's effects on the various constituents of the food community, I reached out to Xi'an Famou…

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Podcast Episodes

Special Sauce: Kenji on Butter; Anne Saxelby and Sheila Flanagan on Being Optimistic [2/2]

Special Sauce: “Ask Kenji” Is Back! And Anne Saxelby and Sheila Flanagan on Selling Cheese During the Pandemic [1/2]

Special Sauce: Alexander Smalls on How Food and Music Nurture Hope and Connection [2/2]

Special Sauce: After a Tony, a Grammy, and a Beard, Alexander Smalls on What’s Next [1/2]

Special Sauce: Cookbook Author Susan Spungen on Craving Togetherness [1/2]

Special Sauce: NYT’s Pete Wells on the Future of Restaurant Criticism [2/2]

Special Sauce: NYT Restaurant Critic Pete Wells on the State of the Industry [1/2]

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

Small Businesses Need More Help Now, Says Ovenly Co-Founder Agatha Kulaga

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

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