{"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":"Noma and Redzepi: A Shocking Tale of Abuse","slug":"noma-and-redzepi-a-shocking-tale-of-abuse","published_at":"2026-03-20T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/special-sauce-with-ed-levine-496852/noma-and-redzepi-a-shocking-tale-of-abuse","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/special-sauce-with-ed-levine-496852","url":"https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_1809_1ac32b1d-a5db-4507-b957-2d079ffff04a&uf=https%3A%2F%2Ffeed.thespecialsaucepodcast.com","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/1809/1ac32b1d-a5db-4507-b957-2d079ffff04a/20260320_SS_Bill_Addison_and_Kenji_on_Noma_v2.mp3","summary":"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 and more on this episode of Special Sauce . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices","meta_description":"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 2…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2819,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/special-sauce-with-ed-levine-496852/episodes/noma-and-redzepi-a-shocking-tale-of-abuse/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/noma-and-redzepi-a-shocking-tale-of-abuse.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}