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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.
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Meherwan Irani: Indian Street Food Evangelist (opens the original)
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James Beard Award-Winning chef and restaurateur Meherwan Irani has written 'Number 1 Best Indian Cookbook in the World', a book that celebrates the Indian street food he serves at his restaurants Chai Pani and Botiwalla . On Special Sauce Irani insisted that Indian street food is the best street food in the world. Bold claim! Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
ICE in Chicago: Still Destroying Food People's Lives (opens the original)
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After reading about ICE's ongoing appalling treatment of an Argentine-born Chicago chef Carlos Cantatore in the new online food publication Ravenous , I invited Ravenous ' Ashok Selvam and Marcos Carbajal, Chicago-born restaurateur-chef and owner of the esteemed Carnitas Uruapan , on Special Sauce to bring us up to date. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Restaurant Reservation Insanity (opens the original)
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This week on Special Sauce , reporter Heather Haddon and columnist Adam Chandler of The Wall Street Journal give us the lowdown on why securing a restaurant reservation is damn near impossible these days. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Dolly Parton: Working Class Food Hero (opens the original)
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There are quite a few beautiful Dolly Parton remembrances that have been published since her death, but only one that talked about Dolly's love of food and the many contributions Parton made to the food culture. Today's guest on Special Sauce , Amy McCarthy , former Eater writer and editor and one of Ravenous' employee owners, wrote that smart and thoughtful piece about Dolly, so smart and thoughtful I thought she could come on the show and talk about it. Amy turned out to be the perfect Special
'The Elephant in the Room' Revisited with Tommy Tomlinson (opens the original)
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This week the terrific writer and podcaster Tommy Tomlinson gives us a poignant and hopeful update on his lifelong battle with his weight. Thanks to GLP-1 drugs he has lost more than 130 pounds in the last 2 years. Tommy and I share our GLP-1 drug experiences. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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