{"podcast":{"title":"Special Sauce with Ed Levine","slug":"special-sauce-with-ed-levine-496852","podcast_index_feed_id":496852,"rss_url":"https://feed.thespecialsaucepodcast.com","website_url":"https://www.thespecialsaucepodcast.com/","image_url":"https://f.prxu.org/1809/images/a4aa057e-2163-4ab0-8351-f7acb7f5814b/Special_Sauce_Logo_1400x1400copy.jpg","author":"Ed Levine (edlevine27@gmail.com)","episode_count":467,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T04:22:41.675316+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/special-sauce-with-ed-levine-496852"},"episode":{"title":"Can Food Actually Be Medicine? Yes!","slug":"can-food-actually-be-medicine-yes","published_at":"2026-04-24T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/special-sauce-with-ed-levine-496852/can-food-actually-be-medicine-yes","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/special-sauce-with-ed-levine-496852","url":"https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_1809_a0844027-9e89-468f-888e-714c2821e085&uf=https%3A%2F%2Ffeed.thespecialsaucepodcast.com","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/1809/a0844027-9e89-468f-888e-714c2821e085/20260424_SS_Food_as_Medicine_V2.mp3","summary":"The idea that food is medicine has been around for centuries. On this week's Special Sauce The New York Times 's Kim Severson and the Aspen Institute 's Corby Kummer talk about how doctors, the government, and even insurance companies have been engaged in a half-century long process to treat various medical conditions with food cooked healthily that the government and health insurers pay for. Chicken soup is indeed good for the soul. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices","meta_description":"The idea that food is medicine has been around for centuries. On this week's Special Sauce The New York Times 's Kim Severson and the Aspen Institute 's C…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2534,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/special-sauce-with-ed-levine-496852/episodes/can-food-actually-be-medicine-yes/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/special-sauce-with-ed-levine-496852/can-food-actually-be-medicine-yes.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}