Special Sauce with Ed Levine

Ed Levine

edlevine27@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

A food-and-life conversation show hosted by Serious Eats founder Ed Levine, featuring well-known writers, makers, and tastemakers from food culture. It’s a strong fit for PR folks pitching guests with real culinary credibility and personality—especially people who build brands, run institutions, or have compelling food origin stories.

Metrics

Episodes: 460

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.1/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

edlevine27@gmail.com

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Host

Ed Levine - Founder of Serious Eats and the host of Special Sauce, where he speaks with notable friends and acquaintances in and around food culture about food, craft, and life.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
High-credibility food figures—food writers/journalists at major outlets, influential founders/editors of food media/newsletters, and serious producers (cheesemakers, farmers, restaurant operators) with a strong origin story or cultural impact.
Required Achievements:  
Published work in major media (e.g., national newspapers), Leadership roles in food publishing/media (e.g., newsletter editors), Ownership/founder/visionary leadership of established food producers, Notable regional or craft preservation efforts (e.g., farm or heritage food models)

Recent Guest Discussions

Chris Crowley - Food Writing Background And Newsletter/editorial Work (plus Broader Food Culture Context)

Matt Flegenheimer - NYC Sports Celebration And Food/culture Connections Tied To The Knicks Playoff Run

Mateo Kehler - Cheese-making, Vermont Dairy History, And Preserving A Disappearing Way Of Life

Recent Topics

Food, Cheese, Cooking, Cultural, Food Writing

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Special Sauce with Ed Levine
:

Burger Madness Part 1 with Kenji and George Motz

June 12, 2026

With grilling season underway I felt the time was right to talk burgers with Kenji and Hamburger America's George Motz. We talk burger history, burger cooking methods, and all things burger.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Knicks: Orange and Blue Skies, Baby!

June 05, 2026

As one of the millions of long-suffering New York Knicks fans, I decided I had to devote an episode of Special Sauce to the the team's amazing playoff run. Joining me on the pod is the The New York Times's Matt Flegenheimer, who wrote a great piece about NYC coming together to celebrate this magical run the team is on so far, and food writer Chris Crowley, a former Serious Eater who is now one of the founding editors of the new food newsletter Caper.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.pr...

Mateo Kehler: The Cheese Visionary Behind Jasper Hill Farm

May 29, 2026

This week on Special Sauce we talk to Mateo Kehler, the cheese visionary behind Jasper Hill Farm.  Mateo and his brother Andy, carpenters by trade, pooled together their life savings and bought a 200 acre dilapidated dairy farm in Greensboro, Vermont, in 1998. They were cheesemakers on a mission to save a disappearing way of life in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, where dairy farming had been in precipitous decline.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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