Special Sauce with Ed Levine

For Valentine's Day I dug up this classic interview with Mr. Chocolate, Jacques Torres. He gives us a succinct master class in making bean to bar chocolate, from growing the cacao beans to making milk, dark, and white chocolate creations to sell in his shops and online. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This week on Special Sauce I talk with former Kentucky Poet Laureate Crystal Wilkinson, author of the culinary memoir, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This week on Special Sauce we talk to the good guy spice whisperers Ethan Frisch and Ori Zohar, who are the founders of the socially conscious spice company Burlap & Barrel. They are on a mission to to build new international spice supply chains that are equitable, transparent, and traceable. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This week on Special Sauce we delve deeper into Toni Tipton Martin's seminal research into African-American cooking and cocktails. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This week on Special Sauce we talk African American Cookbooks with Cook's Country editor in chief, food historian, and writer Toni Tipton Martin. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This week on Special Sauce we hear part 2 of one of our favorite interviews of 2022 with the inimitable Tami Treadwell, the charismatic founder of Harlem Seafood Soul. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This week on Special Sauce we're repeating the first of two great interviews with Harlem Seafood Soul's Tami Treadwell. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This week on Special Sauce we hear more about what makes a great burger with Hamburger America's George Motz Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ths week on Special Sauce I catch up with my old running partner George Motz, America's first bona fide burger scholar. George has just opened his very own burger joint Hamburger America. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This week on Special Sauce we go really deep into Fuschia Dunlop's latest book, ‘Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food’. It just got a rave front page review from NYT book critic Dwight Garner. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This week on Special Sauce, we’ll hear about Fuchsia Dunlop’s journey from her first Chinese cooking classes to the researching and writing of her 7th book, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food . We'll find out what she's learned about the country's history and culture in her many years of exploring Chinese cuisine, and why she says she'll never get bored of eating and writing about...

On this episode of Special Sauce Kenji Lopez Alt and Smitten Kitchen's Deb Perelman come to our rescue with some helpful hints about what to do with Thanksgiving leftovers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

On this episode of Special Sauce Kenji and Smitten Kitchen's Deb Perelman give us some tips on how to cook up a Thanksgiving feast in a small space without stressing out. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This week on Special Sauce we hear more about the joy of vegetables and the importance of family with “Tenderheart” author Hetty McKinnon. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

On this week's Special Sauce I talk to food writer Hetty Liu McKinnon. With her five vegetarian cookbooks, her popular Substack newsletter, and her ingenious vegetarian recipes for the New York Times, food writer Hetty has been called the vegetable whisperer, and rightfully so. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Last week, we got an inside look at the father son relationship at the heart of the YouTube series, Hunger Pangs . This time we pick up our conversation with Kevin Pak, the Editorial director of Digital at America's Test Kitchen and his dad, Jeffrey, and learn about how they transformed their success online into a new book, A Very Chinese Cookbook: 100 Recipes from China & Not China (But Still...

On this episode of Special Sauce I talk to food writer Kevin Pang and his dad Jeffrey about how they bridged their substantial generation gap through their shared love of food and cooking. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

On this episode of Special Sauce the great "pie-stress" Chrissy Kinsman is back with pie tips for amateur baking. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

On this episode of Special Sauce the great pie baker Chrissy Kinsman of Pie Chicks on Martha's Vineyard tells us about the trials and tribulations of trying to make a living selling pies year round on a sparsely populated island. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

On this episode of Special Sauce we revisit my nifty 2016 conversation with the legendary baker and cookbook author Dorie Greenspan, which became one of our most popular episodes of all time. Fast-forward to the fall of 2023, when many a serious eater's thoughts normally turn to baking. When I listened to Dorie's old episode I was struck by how relevant our nearly ten year-old conversation still w...

On this episode of Special Sauce Ann Kim talks about the evolution of her relationship with her Korean parents. You won't believe what happened when Ann invited her parents to her about to open first restaurant Pizzeria Lola. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

On this episode of Special Sauce I talk to the James Beard award winning chef Ann Kim. Ann opened her first restaurant, Pizzeria Lola, in Minneapolis in 2010 without ever having cooked professionally. In fact, she was a working actor before she realized that it was cooking that made her happy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

On this episode of Special we dig still deeper into America's regional hot dog styles with food writer JJ Goode, who just wrote an entertaining and informative guide to American regional hot dog styles for the NYT. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

On this episode of Special Sauce we go deep into dogs, hot dogs that is, with JJ Goode, who wrote a guide to regional hot dogs styles for the NY Times. We also checked in with a few hot dog devotees and got their hot take on one of the world's most popular foods. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

On this episode of Special Sauce Kenji is back with some tips for grilling vegetables. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices