Cooking as an Act of Love | Samin Nosrat [Best Of]
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
For Samin Nosrat, cooking is love. A way to gather, delight and savor time with those you love. Maybe, at this time that finds more of us home and cooking, it can become the same for you.
Samin's New York Times bestselling book, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, received the James Beard award and her Netflix series of the same name is a stunning exploration of food, culture, travel, and life. Called “the next Julia Child” by NPR’s All Things Considered, Samin has been cooking professionally since 2000, when she first stumbled into the kitchen at the legendary Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California.
In this Best of episode, we explore Samin's journey, growing up the child of first-generation immigrant parents in southern California and feeling like the outsider. We dive into her lifelong love of writing and books, her experience with anxiety and depression and work to be present and joyful in her life. And, we track her "strange left turn" into the world of food and, now, with the massive success of her book and Netflix series, how she's navigating the pace, exposure and opportunities coming her way.
You can find Samin Nosrat at: Website | Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | My guest on this best of episode is Simeon Nosrat, who is studying English at Berkeley |
| 0:11.7 | when she took this crazy detour into the kitchen at the iconic Shea Penis restaurant in |
| 0:17.1 | Berkeley, California that would change the course of her life. |
| 0:21.2 | She fell in love with food, with the business of food, with the art and craft of cooking |
| 0:25.6 | and the kitchen, the community, and how that blended with her love of taking care of |
| 0:30.6 | people. |
| 0:31.6 | That she loved. |
| 0:32.6 | Eventually, she worked her way up, becoming a cook, and took meticulous notes about |
| 0:39.2 | the process, discovered that cooking came down to four things, salt, fat, acid, and heat. |
| 0:45.6 | And if you could master these things, you could cook anything for anyone, anytime, without |
| 0:51.1 | even using recipes. |
| 0:52.1 | She began to teach, and then penned this gorgeous illustrated cookbook called You Guest |
| 0:58.8 | It, Salt, Fat, Acid Heat, which became this massive phenomenon, and then launched a TV |
| 1:04.5 | series by the same name. |
| 1:06.4 | Along the way, she has also awakened to become very open about living with her own mental |
| 1:12.2 | stresses and depression and anxiety, and how she has navigated this, especially as her |
| 1:18.3 | career and her life have made her much more of a public person in Barcelona. |
| 1:24.0 | We explore all of this in today's really rich and wonderful best of conversation, so excited |
| 1:30.1 | to share it with you on Jonathan Fields, and this is Good Life Project. |
| 1:42.7 | There's a lot of family secrets that I'm not fully privy to, so I have sort of done |
| 1:46.9 | my best to piece things together, but I don't know all of the information still. |
| 1:51.5 | But my dad's family is a religion called Baha'i, and my mom's family is Muslim, and Baha'is |
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