Podcast
Special Sauce with Ed Levine
https://www.thespecialsaucepodcast.com/
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.
457episodes
538guest appearances
262unique guests
Hosts
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Frequent Guests
| Guest | Appearances | Hours | Most Recent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenji López-Alt | 27 | 2025-10-24 | |
| Kenji Lopez-Alt | 13 | 2026-03-20 | |
| Pete Wells | 11 | 2026-02-20 | |
| Stella Parks | 11 | 2025-11-21 | |
| Deb Perelman | 9 | 2026-03-27 | |
| J. Kenji López-Alt | 8 | 2025-08-29 | |
| Adam Chandler | 6 | 2025-05-02 | |
| Jacques Torres | 6 | 2025-02-07 | |
| Rodney Scott | 6 | 2023-06-30 | |
| Dorie Greenspan | 5 | 2024-03-08 | |
| Marcia Chatelain | 5 | 2021-12-18 | |
| Phil Rosenthal | 5 | 2025-08-08 | |
| Daniel Gritzer | 4 | 2019-10-24 | |
| Danny Meyer | 4 | 2019-07-03 | |
| Fuchsia Dunlop | 4 | 2023-12-08 | |
| Hannah Goldfield | 4 | 2026-03-06 | |
| Ivan Orkin | 4 | 2019-11-14 | |
| JJ Goode | 4 | 2023-09-08 | |
| Joanne Lee Molinaro | 4 | 2023-03-03 | |
| Joe Yonan | 4 | 2021-12-18 | |
| Kim Severson | 4 | 2026-04-24 | |
| Marcus Samuelsson | 4 | 2022-02-03 | |
| Ruth Reichl | 4 | 2024-10-25 | |
| Scott Wiener | 4 | 2025-02-28 | |
| Tami Treadwell | 4 | 2024-01-05 | |
| Adam Kuban | 3 | 2018-08-30 | |
| Andrew Friedman | 3 | 2026-04-10 | |
| Anthony Mangieri | 3 | 2025-02-28 | |
| Bill Addison | 3 | 2026-03-20 | |
| Brett Anderson | 3 | 2025-03-21 | |
| Brian Koppelman | 3 | 2023-04-21 | |
| Channing Frye | 3 | 2026-05-01 | |
| Chris Ying | 3 | 2019-11-14 | |
| Dan Barber | 3 | 2020-07-09 | |
| Eric Asimov | 3 | 2026-01-09 | |
| George Motz | 3 | 2025-08-22 | |
| Grace Young | 3 | 2023-01-27 | |
| Hamissi Mamba | 3 | 2025-12-26 | |
| Jason Wang | 3 | 2020-04-23 | |
| Jessica Harris | 3 | 2023-06-02 | |
| John T. Edge | 3 | 2025-10-03 | |
| Justin Pichetrungsi | 3 | 2024-08-02 | |
| Laura Lippman | 3 | 2021-09-03 | |
| Laurie Woolever | 3 | 2025-03-07 | |
| Lolis Eric Elie | 3 | 2025-03-21 | |
| Mark Strausman | 3 | 2026-05-15 | |
| Michelle Zauner | 3 | 2024-12-27 | |
| Nik Sharma | 3 | 2020-11-23 | |
| Raghavan Iyer | 3 | 2025-01-03 | |
| Tim Carman | 3 | 2026-01-16 | |
| Tom Colicchio | 3 | 2020-04-16 | |
| Adam Driver | 2 | 2017-09-28 | |
| Alexander Smalls | 2 | 2020-06-18 | |
| Allison Robicelli | 2 | 2019-04-11 | |
| Alvin Cailan | 2 | 2019-07-18 | |
| Amy Scherber | 2 | 2019-12-12 | |
| Andrew Rea | 2 | 2017-12-14 | |
| Andy Ricker | 2 | 2017-05-18 | |
| Anita Lo | 2 | 2019-01-31 | |
| Anne Saxelby | 2 | 2020-07-02 | |
| Ann Kim | 2 | 2023-09-22 | |
| Antonio De Loera-Brust | 2 | 2025-06-20 | |
| Barbara Lynch | 2 | 2017-07-06 | |
| Ben Leventhal | 2 | 2018-01-11 | |
| Beverly Kim | 2 | 2023-05-12 | |
| Bill Yosses | 2 | 2017-11-30 | |
| Brandon Chrostowski | 2 | 2018-03-08 | |
| Calvin Trillin | 2 | 2016-02-25 | |
| Chris Bianco | 2 | 2017-08-31 | |
| Chris Kimball | 2 | 2017-10-12 | |
| Chrissy Kinsman | 2 | 2023-10-13 | |
| Christina Tosi | 2 | 2023-02-17 | |
| Christine Ha | 2 | 2022-11-02 | |
| Claire Saffitz | 2 | 2022-12-02 | |
| Claudia Fleming | 2 | 2020-03-05 | |
| Daniel Boulud | 2 | 2017-08-17 | |
| David Lebovitz | 2 | 2018-06-28 | |
| David Rockwell | 2 | 2017-08-03 | |
| Doug Crowell | 2 | 2019-02-14 | |
| Edward Lee | 2 | 2018-06-07 | |
| Elazar Sontag | 2 | 2026-03-06 | |
| Elise Bauer | 2 | 2018-04-26 | |
| Eric Kim | 2 | 2022-12-30 | |
| Erin Jeanne Mc Dowell | 2 | 2024-12-13 | |
| Ethan Frisch | 2 | 2024-02-16 | |
| Helen Rosner | 2 | 2023-02-10 | |
| Homa Dashtaki | 2 | 2019-01-18 | |
| Javier Cabral | 2 | 2025-09-19 | |
| Jenny Allen | 2 | 2018-01-25 | |
| Jessica Ramos | 2 | 2022-03-18 | |
| Jim Lahey | 2 | 2024-10-11 | |
| Jing Gao | 2 | 2023-05-19 | |
| J. Kenji Lopez-Alt | 2 | 2023-02-03 | |
| John Stage | 2 | 2026-04-10 | |
| Karen Washington | 2 | 2025-04-18 | |
| Katie Leaird | 2 | 2025-07-25 | |
| Kwame Onwuachi | 2 | 2019-04-25 | |
| Lalo Garcia | 2 | 2025-04-25 | |
| Lazarus Lynch | 2 | 2019-08-01 | |
| Lior Lev Sercarz | 2 | 2024-08-16 |
Network-Based Guest Fits
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