Yes, Dan Levy Really Is That Great

Food with Mark Bittman

Sweetness and Light

Nutrition, Arts, Food, Culture, Cooking, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.9 • 947 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

A revisiting of a beloved episode from two years ago. Mark and Kate talk to the incomparable actor about finding comedy in a "soft" place, eating like a goldfish, love of family, and his disdain for cooking (but not eating).

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0:00.0	Welcome to food. I'm Kate Bittman. I hope you're enjoying being here with us, and if that's the case,
0:08.9	you might want to find us online at bitmanproject.com, where we've got more than 1,500 recipes,
0:14.9	cooking how-toes, essays about how food affects us, Mark's opinions, our recommendations for things to eat and cookware
0:22.8	and books, and a lot more. It's a burgeoning community, and if you care about food, I'm fairly
0:28.3	certain you'll enjoy our site. Bitmanproject.com. Get ready for one of my favorite episodes we've ever done, one that I was so nervous about doing, but was totally
0:56.8	gratifying. Today's interview is with Dan Levy of Schitt's Creek fame, who loves to eat but doesn't
1:03.9	love to cook, and who we love, period. We originally interviewed Dan more than two years ago,
1:10.2	and if you know Dan, you know this episode is well worth a revisit.
1:15.2	Here's Mark's original and very sweet intro.
1:19.6	Before we get started today, I wanted to formally introduce my co-host, Kate Bittman, who is obviously my daughter and has been working
1:28.2	closely with me on the Bittman Project and on the podcast, of which she's the producer for
1:34.4	months slash years now. And it's been a great experience, and we wanted to give credit where
1:41.7	it's due and bring Kate formally into the co-host role and say how happy we both are about that.
1:50.0	We have an unusual or maybe usual or maybe both father-daughter relationship and working together has really been a joy for both of us. So I hope you enjoy the brightness and wisdom she brings to every episode as much as I do.
2:07.2	It's peculiar that I'm talking about this now because it's about as organic,
2:12.3	a segue into today's episode as anyone could hope for.
2:16.7	We have with us half of one of the funniest and
2:20.2	lovable father-son teams we've seen in a long, long time, now that I think about it,
2:26.3	maybe ever. Did Eugene and Dan Levy pop into your head immediately? Because if they did, you're right.
2:33.6	Today, the lovely, incomparable
2:36.1	Dan Levy is with us, and we can hardly believe it either. I've been a fan of Eugene Levy,
2:41.9	who's my contemporary for as long as he's been working. I watched Splash with Kate a lot when she
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