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Bill Yosses on White House Dirt and Fake News [2/2]
If you interview someone like Bill Yosses, who was the White House pastry chef for George W. Bush and Barack Obama, you hope and pray that you can sh…
8 years, 5 months ago
[Rerun] Ask Special Sauce: Kenji and Stella Troubleshoot Your Thanksgiving
When I was mulling over what we could do on Special Sauce for Thanksgiving, I immediately thought about stress reduction. Making the big dinner can b…
8 years, 5 months ago
Bill Yosses on President Obama's Love of Pie [1/2]
This week's guest on Special Sauce is Bill Yosses, who was the White House pastry chef from 2007 to 2014 and is the author of the just-published The …
8 years, 6 months ago
David Tanis on Chez Panisse and the Hideousness of Writing Cookbooks
One of the many reasons I love doing Special Sauce is I get to talk to many people I have long admired from afar and never met. This week's guest is …
8 years, 6 months ago
Jacques Torres Explains the Chocolate Color Wheel [2/2]
Serious Eaters who are as curious about all things chocolate as I am are going to love the second part of my Special Sauce interview with Jacques Tor…
8 years, 6 months ago
Jacques Torres on Becoming Mr. Chocolate [1/2]
If you love chocolate–and what Serious Eater doesn't–you won't want to wait to savor every morsel of the Special Sauce episodes featuring Mr. Chocola…
8 years, 7 months ago
Chris Kimball on the Grateful Dead and Life After America's Test Kitchen [2/2]
I'm going to go out on a limb here, or perhaps I should say on a sprig of rosemary: For those who care deeply about the state of home cooking today, …
8 years, 7 months ago
Chris Kimball on the Joy of Arguments and the Future of Food Media [1/2]
If you're interested at all in food media you're going to love my Special Sauce conversation with Milk Street founder and seminal food publishing gur…
8 years, 7 months ago
Adam Driver on Choosing Roles and Eating a Chicken a Day [2/2]
When–and it should be when, not if–you listen to part two of my Special Sauce interview with Adam Driver, my guess is you'll be as awed as I was by h…
8 years, 7 months ago
Adam Driver on Marines, MREs, and Postprandial Cereal [1/2]
For the first episode of the new season of Special Sauce I invited on a very special guest: the brilliant, original, and always thoughtful Adam Drive…
8 years, 8 months ago