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Samin Nosrat

Chef and Author · 1 appearance on the record.

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Samin Nosrat wrote the James Beard Award-winning bestseller Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, which she hosted as a four-part Netflix documentary series. She also served as a food columnist for The New York Times Magazine and co-hosted the podcast Home Cooking.

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The record, in short

What the tape says about how Samin argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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Everything Samin Nosrat said on How I Built This that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Nosrat: Practice alone makes a better cook, not expensive culinary schools
“The only thing that makes you a better cook is practice. It's not, you know, fancy tools or like going to some culinary school. It's just practicing.”
Samin Nosrat May 14, 2020 ▶ 13:12 How I Built Resilience: Live with Samin Nosrat and Alice Waters & Fanny Singer
Insight
Nosrat: Focus on the functional roles of ingredients to improvise substitutions
“My whole theory as a cook, my whole philosophy, my whole thing with cooking is think about what role those ingredients and tools are playing, and then figure out what else you can use so you don't have to run to the store.”
Samin Nosrat May 14, 2020 ▶ 3:21 How I Built Resilience: Live with Samin Nosrat and Alice Waters & Fanny Singer
Insight
Nosrat: A dish's initial cooking fat determines its final flavor profile
“So I really feel like fat, the fat that you start with in a dish determines the final flavor of the dish.”
Samin Nosrat May 14, 2020 ▶ 11:51 How I Built Resilience: Live with Samin Nosrat and Alice Waters & Fanny Singer
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Nosrat: The COVID-19 pandemic will broadly increase home kitchen confidence
“I actually think one of the greatest things that will come out of this is, I think a lot more people will have confidence in the kitchen and feel like they can Take care of themselves”
Samin Nosrat May 14, 2020 ▶ 12:54 How I Built Resilience: Live with Samin Nosrat and Alice Waters & Fanny Singer
Insight
Nosrat: Kitchen constraints drive better decision-making than having total ingredient freedom
“Total freedom is often overwhelming. You know, when you can have any ingredient, when you can do anything, when you could make any recipe, you don't know where to start. You don't have like a path, but when we are constrained by our space or our ingredients or…”
Samin Nosrat May 14, 2020 ▶ 13:43 How I Built Resilience: Live with Samin Nosrat and Alice Waters & Fanny Singer

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
How I Built Resilience: Live with Samin Nosrat and Alice Waters & Fanny Singer May 14, 2020 10m
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