Nosrat: Practice alone makes a better cook, not expensive culinary schools
Samin Nosrat · How I Built Resilience: Live with Samin Nosrat and Alice Waters & Fanny Singer · May 14, 2020 · at 13:12
Chef and author Samin Nosrat explains the true source of culinary skill development during a discussion with Guy Raz.
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“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.”
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