Special Sauce with Ed Levine

Ed Levine

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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Special Sauce with Ed Levine

Episodes (448)

Friday Noma and Redzepi: A Shocking Tale of Abuse
Fri Mar 13th LA Taco Reheat: Leading the ICE Resistance One Taco at a Time
Fri Mar 6th Are Restaurant Critics Obsolete? Part 2

Special Sauce with Ed Levine

Mar 20, 2026
48¾ minutes
64 MB

According The New York Times, Noma chef and co-owner René Redzepi physically and verbally abused more than thirty of his kitchen staff between 2010 and 2017. To find out what that means, I sat down with longtime restaurant critic Bill Addison of The Los Angeles Times, and best selling author and youtuber, Kenji Lopez-Alt. Kenji worked in many serious restaurant kitchens in Boston for a number of years after graduating from college, before opening his own restaurant Wursthall in San Mateo, California. Can fine-dining restaurant kitchens become kinder and gentler places? What should happen to Redzepi? We mull over these questions a...

Special Sauce with Ed Levine

Noma and Redzepi: A Shocking Tale of Abuse

Ed Levine

00:00 -46:59