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[ad_1] [Photograph: Eliesa Johnson. Squash photograph: Vicky Wasik] My guest this week on Special Sauce is chef and cookbook author JJ Johnson. When I say he gravitated to kitchen work at an early age, I mean really early. He started cooking with his grandmother when he was four: “I didn’t really watch cartoons…I’d step on […]
[ad_1] [Photograph: David Welch. Corn casserole photograph: Vicky Wasik] Here’s how the delightful and brave Jenny Allen describes the food at her family table in Part 2 of her Special Sauce interview: “Such bad food…and so little of it.” As that quote can attest, you can be sure there’s no shortage of pithy insights or […]
[ad_1] [Photograph: David Welch. Cookie photograph: Vicky Wasik] Jenny Allen, the humorist and author of the guffaw-inducing new book Would Everybody Please Stop?: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas, derives as much pleasure from eating as anyone I know. Consider this anecdote she shared with me about her food-loving stepmother: “One day she said, […]
[ad_1] [Photograph: Courtesy of Resy. Spicy Spring pizza photograph: Vicky Wasik] When Resy‘s Ben Leventhal, who has been involved in at least five food-related start-ups, speaks about entrepreneurship, I am all ears. Here are just a couple of the pearls of wisdom that came out of our in-depth conversation: “What I do try to say […]
[ad_1] Today is the last day of the 25% membership sale for meal plans. Take advantage of this offer today and get meal plans all year long for less than the cost of a cup of coffee a month! This meal plan membership gives you access to the regular, vegetarian, and low carb meal plans […]
[ad_1] [Photograph: Courtesy of Resy. Chicken soup photograph: Vicky Wasik] The members list of the non-existent Digital Food Entrepreneur’s Club would be quite small, but it would have to include Ben Leventhal, who is both this and next week’s guest on Special Sauce. Ben cofounded Eater in 2005 and is now one of the cofounders […]
[ad_1] Asking me to pick my favorite Special Sauce episodes of the year is like asking a father to choose his favorite child. In many ways, I love every episode equally. Why? For the same reasons I love Serious Eats as a whole: I like putting together a strong team and watching each member do […]
[ad_1] [Photograph: Mr. Yoshi Kametani. Apple pie photograph: Vicky Wasik] If you interview someone like Bill Yosses, who was the White House pastry chef for George W. Bush and Barack Obama, you hope and pray that you can shake loose some dirt to titillate your listeners. But when you listen to part 2 of my […]