Special Sauce with Ed Levine

Ed Levine

edlevine27@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

This is an interview podcast focused on food, cooking, restaurants, and the broader food culture, typically featuring established chefs, culinary experts, food writers, authors, and other notable cultural figures. PR agencies could credibly pitch cookbook authors, chefs, restaurant leaders, food historians, culinary journalists, and experts with a distinctive food-related story; booking difficulty is medium because guests generally have recognized expertise or public visibility.

Metrics

Episodes: 464

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.1/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Contact Information

edlevine27@gmail.com

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Host

Ed Levine - Founder of Serious Eats and a food writer known for exploring restaurants, cooking, and food culture.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Established chefs, cookbook authors, food writers, culinary historians, restaurant figures, and other recognized experts or cultural personalities with a compelling connection to food.
Required Achievements:  
Published cookbooks or food books, Established culinary or food-writing careers, Recognized expertise in a specific food subject, Prominent journalism or cultural work

Recent Guest Discussions

Stacey Mei Yan Fong - Pie, Immigration, Personal Food Experiences, And Her 50-state Pie Project.

George Motz - Burger History, Preparation, And American Burger Culture.

Kenji López-Alt - Burger Cooking, Techniques, And The Culture Of Burgers.

Matt Flegenheimer - The New York Knicks, Sports Fandom, And The Collective Experience Of Following The Team.

Recent Topics

Food Culture, Cooking, Restaurants, Food Writing, Cookbooks

Episodes

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

The Bear's Final Season with the NYT's James Poniewozik

July 10, 2026

If there is a smarter or better TV critic than The New York Times's James Poniewozik I have yet to come across him or her. So when I was dying to talk to someone about The Bear's moving final season I rang up James and he graciously agreed to come on Special Sauce to talk about it. We had a blast talking about Carmy and Sydney and all the other finely etched characters on the show.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A Pie Reheat for the 4th of July

July 03, 2026

Here at Special Sauce we love pie in all its forms: we love shepherd's pie, apple pie, key lime pie, lemon meringue pie, and our absolute favorite, peach pie. And given that we're coming up on America's 250th birthday and Americans love pie we thought we'd reheat one of our favorite pie episodes to get in the spirit of things. Stacey Mei Yan Fong catalogued her love of pie when she published 50 Pies, 50 States: An Immigrant's Love Letter. Even if you don't love pie her story is well worth lis...

Summer Burgers Part 2: Kenji and George Motz

June 26, 2026

This week on Special Sauce serious eaters get to eavesdrop on part 2 of my hilarious and informative conversation with burger mavens Kenji and Hamburger America's George Motz. Nobody knows more about cooking and eating burgers than these two burger mavens.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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