Ed Levine
Serious Eats
New York, NY, United States
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Special Sauce: Kenji on Salting Vegetables; Farmer Maggie Cheney on CSAs and Social Justice
Maggie Cheney on the challenges facing farms; Kenji on why you salt vegetables. → Read More
Special Sauce: Kenji on Smashed Burgers; Susan Spungen on Sprezzatura
Susan Spungen on cultivating an aura of studied nonchalance when entertaining; Kenji fields questions about smash burgers. → Read More
Special Sauce: Kenji on Dried Herbs; Dan Barber on the Outlook for Small Farmers
Dan Barber on how the pandemic is affecting small farmers; Kenji weighs in on dried versus fresh herbs. → Read More
Alexander Smalls on How Food and Music Nurture Hope and Connection
Chef, restaurateur, opera singer, cookbook author—Alexander Smalls is a multi-talented man whose new book, Meals, Music, and Muses: Recipes From My African American Kitchen, celebrates Black American foodways of the South. → Read More
Chef Alexander Smalls on His Life, His Storied Career, and the Current Moment
Chef Alexander Smalls has been many things in his long and storied career—opera singer, restaurateur, and cookbook author, to name a few. Smalls speaks to Ed Levine about his life and work, and offers some of his thoughts on the pandemic and the murder of George Floyd. → Read More
Special Sauce: Cookbook Author Susan Spungen on Craving Togetherness
Susan Spungen talks about her new cookbook, her career, and what it may be like to gather with friends over food in the wake of the pandemic. → Read More
Pete Wells on Restaurant Criticism During a Pandemic
NYT restaurant critic Pete Wells on how restaurant criticism will change because of the coronavirus pandemic, and on what he’s cooking at home. → Read More
Pete Wells on Restaurant Criticism During a Pandemic
Pete Wells, the New York Times restaurant critic, discusses how the coronavirus pandemic has debilitated the industry. → Read More
Special Sauce: Why DC-Based Restaurant Owner Ezekiel Vázquez-Ger Is Feeling Optimistic
How Seven Reasons, dubbed “The Best New American Restaurant” by Esquire in 2019, reopened and rehired its staff. → Read More
Special Sauce: Small Businesses Need More Help Now, Says Ovenly Co-Founder Agatha Kulaga
Ed Levine speaks with Ovenly co-founder Agatha Kulaga about how the coronavirus has affected the bakery, and how little the government's assistance for small businesses has helped. → Read More
Will X'ian Famous Foods Survive the Coronavirus Lockdown?
Ed Levine speaks with Jason Wang of Xi'an Famous Foods talk about how coronavirus has affected his business, and what he envisions for the future. → Read More
Special Sauce: Tom Colicchio on How to Save Restaurants
Ed Levine speaks with Chef Tom Colicchio, who talks about The Independent Restaurant Collective and its efforts to lobby Congress to do more to help independent restaurants. → Read More
Special Sauce: Kenji on His Food Safety Article
Kenji answers commonly asked questions about coronavirus and food safety. → Read More
Special Sauce: Kenji on Coronavirus and Its Impact on Restaurants
[Photograph: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt] Editor's note: The Coronavirus story is unfolding at a breakneck pace. That means that something said that was true at the time may no longer be so. On this episode please note that Lola, the Tom Douglas restaurant in the Hotel Andra in Seattle, is now closed, as is the hotel itself. Before the sh*t hit the proverbial fan, I had the next several episodes of… → Read More
Special Sauce: Claudia Fleming on the Pitfalls of Your Passion
[Claudia Fleming photograph: Eric Striffler. Pound cake photograph: Vicky Wasik.] On this week's Special Sauce, I continue my conversation with visionary pastry chef Claudia Fleming. But before we get to Claudia's captivating story, Kenji fields a question from Serious Eater Joan Moore, who wants to know how long the blade on her Cuisinart food processor should last. After Kenji delivers his… → Read More
Special Sauce: Kenji on Vegetarian Chile Verde; Claudia Fleming on Lego Desserts; BraveTart on Banana Bread
Ed Levine in conversation with Chef Claudia Fleming; Kenji on a vegetarian version of his chile verde recipe; Stella on making better banana bread. → Read More
Special Sauce: Misha Collins on Pasta With Jam Sauce and Random Acts of Kindness
Part two of Ed Levine's conversation with Misha Collins; Kenji on not refrigerating butter; Sasha on making dough at home. → Read More
Special Sauce: Supernatural Star Misha Collins
Ed Levine sits down with actor and cookbook author Misha Collins; Kenji dishes on cooking with herbs; Daniel on sous vide wings. → Read More
Special Sauce: Maangchi on Being the Korean Julia Child
Kenji on freezing food, Daniel on making a perfect French omelet, and part two of Ed Levine's conversation with Maangchi. → Read More
Special Sauce: Maangchi on Becoming a YouTube Sensation
Kenji on what he cooks with his kid, Stella on fudge, and Ed Levine in conversation with YouTube sensation Maangchi. → Read More