Podcast Episodes

Special Sauce: Lazarus Lynch on Cooking on Camera and Being Okay With Who You Are [1/2]

Singer, author (Son of a Southern Chef), and food personality Lazarus Lynch is not your typical cookbook writer or social media star. As an openly ga…

6 years, 9 months ago

Special Sauce: Alvin Cailan on What “American Food” Means in 2019 [2/2]

In part 2 of my extraordinary chat with chef-restaurateur-activist Alvin Cailan, we delved deeply into his socio-political motivations, but we still …

6 years, 10 months ago

Special Sauce: Eggslut’s Alvin Cailan on Ruckus-Causing as a Career Path [1/2]

Every now and then on Special Sauce, I just hit it off with a guest, feeling immediately as if I've known them all my life. That's what happened when…

6 years, 10 months ago

Special Sauce Live, Ed Levine Edition: Serious Eats Lives! [2/2]

Welcome back for the second part of Special Sauce with Ed Levine, featuring Ed Levine!

This week we pick up where we left off, with Danny Meyer, CEO …

6 years, 10 months ago

Special Sauce Live, Ed Levine Edition: A Serious Eater Is Born! [1/2]

At the end of every week, Ed Levine- a.k.a. Serious Eats founder, a.k.a. Serious Eats overlord, a.k.a. "missionary of the delicious," a.k.a. Ed "The …

6 years, 10 months ago

Special Sauce: Nik Sharma on the Kitchen as Laboratory [2/2]

This week, in part two of my conversation with chef and food writer Nik Sharma, we dug into the science-based approach to cooking that informs his te…

6 years, 11 months ago

Special Sauce: Nik Sharma on the Stories Told by Seasoning [1/2]

Cookbook author (Seasons: Big Flavors, Beautiful Food), blogger (A Brown Table), and newspaper columnist (A Brown Kitchen) Nik Sharma made the perfec…

6 years, 11 months ago

Special Sauce: Priya Krishna on Cooking and Being "Indian-ish" [2/2]

In part two of my delightful conversation with Priya Krishna, she delves into her book Indian-ish: Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family i…

6 years, 11 months ago

Priya Krishna on Special Sauce: How Indian-ish Came to Be [1/2]

I knew that Priya Krishna, author of Indian-ish: Recipes and Antics From a Modern American Family (I am predisposed to like any book with the word an…

6 years, 11 months ago

Special Sauce: Joe Yonan on Charting Your Own Path [2/2]

In part two of my far-ranging interview with Washington Post food editor Joe Yonan, we talked about his career in journalism and the ever-evolving wo…

6 years, 11 months ago