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Jessamyn Rodriguez on Hot Bread Kitchen, NY's Bakery Incubator
Ed Levine first met Jessamyn Waldman Rodriguez eight years ago, when he happened upon her and her mother selling handmade tortillas at a tiny farmers…
9 years, 11 months ago
Jim Lahey on the Accident of No-Knead Bread
This week's Special Sauce guest, bread baker extraordinaire Jim Lahey, is a man of strong opinions, provocative ideas, and many talents. He's not on …
9 years, 11 months ago
Roy Blount Jr. on Saving Room for Pie
Roy Blount Jr. is one of the funniest writers on the planet. And he loves to eat, and talk about what he's eaten, so he's a made-to-order guest on Sp…
9 years, 11 months ago
Special Sauce: Chris Ying on the Best and Wurst of Lucky Peach Life
Who knew, in an age of huge magazine companies being sold off like rusty used cars, that you could create a quarterly, delightfully idiosyncratic foo…
10 years ago
Special Sauce: Dominique Ansel on Why He Doesn't Take Advice From Anyone
In this episode, we discuss how Dominique Ansel went from army KP duty to the kitchens of Fauchon in Paris (where he arrived in a clunker he bought f…
10 years ago
Special Sauce: Sweetgreen’s Nicolas Jammet on His Secrets to Success
The Sweetgreen team has watched their business grow over the past nine years from a single 500-square-foot storefront location in DC's Georgetown, wh…
10 years ago
Special Sauce: Dan Pashman on Arguing for Fun and His Mother's Fajita Obsession
In this episode, we get into some Sporkful-inspired debates about the purpose of hot dog buns and the ideal shape of pie. We discuss the divide in th…
10 years ago
Special Sauce: Francis Lam on American Identity and Chrissy Teigen's Mac and Cheese
In this episode of Special Sauce, Lam and I discuss how he tends to "go for the cheeks" and why his parents are proud of him for doing so. He also ta…
10 years, 1 month ago
Special Sauce: Brooks Headley Wants You to Call Your Mom. Really. Right Now.
Brooks Headley, the punk-rocking, vegetable-whispering owner of Superiority Burger in NYC, says he's "almost insistent upon only being in bands with …
10 years, 1 month ago
Special Sauce: Dorie Greenspan Says, "Don't Start Baking With Your Sister's Wedding Cake"
"Don't start with your sister's wedding cake," suggests baker and author Dorie Greenspan on this week's episode of Special Sauce. Greenspan has come …
10 years, 1 month ago