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Special Sauce with Ed Levine

Special Sauce with Ed Levine

By: Ed Levine
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Serious Eats' podcast Special Sauce enables food lovers everywhere to eavesdrop on an intimate conversation about food and life between host and Serious Eats founder Ed Levine and his well-known/famous friends and acquaintances both in and out of the food culture.

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Episodes
  • AI: An Existential Threat to Recipe Developers

    AI: An Existential Threat to Recipe Developers
    Mar 27 2026

    Smitten Kitchen's Deb Perelman explains why she and many other recipe developers and food writers regard AI as an existential threat on this week's episode of Special Sauce. This is serious business, serious eaters. Listen up!

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    36 mins
  • Noma and Redzepi: A Shocking Tale of Abuse

    Noma and Redzepi: A Shocking Tale of Abuse
    Mar 20 2026

    According The New York Times, Noma chef and co-owner René Redzepi physically and verbally abused more than thirty of his kitchen staff between 2010 and 2017. To find out what that means, I sat down with longtime restaurant critic Bill Addison of The Los Angeles Times, and best selling author and youtuber, Kenji Lopez-Alt. Kenji worked in many serious restaurant kitchens in Boston for a number of years after graduating from college, before opening his own restaurant Wursthall in San Mateo, California. Can fine-dining restaurant kitchens become kinder and gentler places? What should happen to Redzepi? We mull over these questions and more on this episode of Special Sauce.

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    47 mins
  • LA Taco Reheat: Leading the ICE Resistance One Taco at a Time

    LA Taco Reheat: Leading the ICE Resistance One Taco at a Time
    Mar 13 2026

    This week we're reheating one of our favorite recent episodes on the ongoing struggle between ICE and the immigrant-driven food cultures of major American cities. LA Taco's editor-in-chief Javier Cabral explains how and why his website became one of the leading voices of ICE resistance in the "City of Angels'.

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    42 mins
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