Hello, you're listening to Culture Call, a transatlantic conversation from the Financial Times.

I'm Grizalda Mari Brown in my house in London.

And I'm Lila Raptopoulos, still in my apartment in New York.

Coming up on today's episode.

Even in what we all might consider our most ideal

circumstances, there are always constraints on our cooking. It might be time, it might be space,

it might be which ingredients we have. There's always some sort of constraint. This is just a very,

very, very extreme one, but what we all have so much more of is time.

Today's guest is the inimitable chef, Samin Nosrat, who is author of the best-selling cookbook,

Salt Fat, Acid Heat, and host of the Netflix series, Salt Fat, Acid Heat.

She has just come out with a limited podcast series called Home Cooking, which answers people's questions about what to cook at home

during this period of quarantine. And it's a really delightful and a welcome break, honestly.

Can we please talk about how excited we both are about having Samin on the show?

Yes. It feels like it's been

a long time coming. Yeah. When we spoke about you joining the podcast, about a year ago,

I think Samin was the first person on your list of people when we said, who do you think we

should have on the show? She was number one. Yeah, I mean, her work has unquestionably shifted

culture forward and like that's what we're all about. And I was just off of the back of having read

her book and it was like such a help to me that I felt like everybody needs some time with

Samin. And you know, it's a strange circumstance in which to interview her. Like the conversation isn't the one I expected we'd be having a year ago when I pitched this.

But it also feels like, you know, it's a good time, actually.

Yeah.

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