Key Change: Samin Nosrat on Ani DiFranco

Song Exploder

Hrishikesh Hirway

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4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is my friend Samin Nosrat, the author of the bestselling, award-winning cookbook Salt Fat Acid Heat, and the host and executive producer of the hit Netflix show that's based on it. Her second cookbook comes out this fall, and it's called Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share With People You Love.

Back in March 2020, Samin and I started a podcast together called Home Cooking, where we answered people's anxious questions about cooking in the time of the pandemic and lockdown. And we're bringing that podcast back later this year.

Samin is one of my closest friends. We've been there for each other for all of the most important moments of our lives over the years that we've known each other. But with a total lack of consideration to our friendship, it turns out Samin’s had important moments in her life from before we met. But we're going to make up for lost time, and she's going to talk to me about one of them today.

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You can listen to "Untouchable Face" by Ani DiFranco here.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
0:06.7	I'm Rishi Kesh Hirwe.
0:11.3	This is Key Change, where I talk to fascinating people about a piece of music that transformed their lives.
0:17.1	And my guest today is my friend Simein Nasrath, the author of the best-selling award-winning cookbook
0:22.9	Salt Fat Acid Heat, and the host and executive producer of the hit Netflix show that's based on it.
0:29.2	Her second cookbook comes out this fall and it's called Good Things, Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love.
0:36.2	Back in March 2020,
0:40.2	Samin and I started a podcast together called Home Cooking,
0:43.4	where we answered people's anxious questions about cooking in the time of the pandemic and lockdown.
0:46.9	And we're bringing that podcast back later this year.
0:50.0	Samin is one of my closest friends.
0:52.0	We've been there for each other for stop making me laugh. Sorry, sorry. Samin is one of my closest friends. We've been there for each other for... Stop making me laugh.
0:55.1	Sorry.
0:55.9	Samin is one of my closest friends.
0:58.3	We've been there for each other for all of the most important moments of our lives
1:02.6	over the years that we've known each other.
1:04.2	But with a total lack of consideration to our friendship,
1:07.7	it turns out Samin's had important moments in her life from before we've been.
1:12.5	But we're going to make up for lost time and she's going to talk to me about one of them today.
1:16.5	Hi, Rishi. Hi, Samin. Do you remember how you first started telling me about the song we're going to talk about?
1:21.7	The question you originally asked was like, what's the most influential song in your life or something like that? And I said, oh, I don't have that.
1:28.3	I don't have one. And then I thought about it for a couple of seconds. And I said, well, there is this
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