Ed Levine (born January 27, 1952) is the creator/founder of Serious Eats, the author of the entrepreneurial memoir Serious Eater: A Food Lover's Quest for Pizza and Redemption (Portfolio Penguin/Random House, 2019), and the host of the podcast Special Sauce.
His stories on iconic American foods such as pizza, hot dogs, hamburgers, ice cream and cheesecake have appeared in many U.S. periodicals, including GQ, BusinessWeek and The New York Times.
Levine grew up in Cedarhurst, New York, and graduated from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles in 1969.
He attended Grinnell College in Iowa with a BA in music, and in 1985, earned his MBA from Columbia Business School.
The first episode features a conversation with Phil Rosenthal, creator of the television sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond.