Best Of: Samin Nosrat / Elizabeth Gilbert

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🗓️ 27 September 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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After the tremendous success of Salt Fat Acid Heat, chef and author Samin Nosrat realized she needed to recalibrate her life. "I really believed on some level if I achieved all of these things, that that would fill this hole of loneliness in my heart," she tells Fresh Air's Sam Briger. Nosrat's new book, Good Things, is about sharing food with the people you love.

Elizabeth Gilbert, the bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, talks to Tonya Mosley about her new memoir, All the Way to the River. It’s about her intense relationship with her late partner Rayya, a love that she describes as deep and life-changing, but also destructive, marked by addiction and heartbreak.

Film critic Justin Chang reviews the new romantic fantasy movie A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, starring Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie.

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0:00.0	Sources and methods, the crown jewels of the intelligence community.
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0:25.6	From W.H.Y.Y. Y. in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Sam Brigger.
0:31.2	Today we speak with Samin Nasrod, author of the celebrated cookbook, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat.
0:37.0	Her second book just came out.
0:39.0	It's called Good Things, and it's a collection of recipes,
0:41.9	even though Nosrat says she hates recipes.
0:44.4	Basically, I feel like they trap us.
0:48.3	They feel really constraining, and that constraint hurts my heart.
0:55.0	Also, Elizabeth Gilbert, the best-selling author of Eat, Pray Love, talks about her new memoir
1:00.1	all the way to the river. It's about her intense relationship with her late partner, Raya,
1:05.0	a love she describes as deep and life-changing, but also destructive, marked by addiction
1:10.5	and heartbreak.
1:12.4	And Justin Chang will review the new romantic fantasy film, A Big Bold, Beautiful Journey,
1:17.9	starring Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie.
1:21.2	That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.
1:25.8	Military commanders, intelligence officials, diplomatic power players, they know things you may not about where the world is headed,
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