Welcome to You Can't Make This Up, a companion podcast from Netflix.

I'm Ray Vada, your host for this week's episode.

Here on You Can Make This Up, we talk about different Netflix series and films with special

guests, and all of the stories are surprisingly true.

This week, we're going behind the delicious scenes of salt-fat acid heat.

This new Netflix original series is part cooking show, part travel show, and all

Samine Nosrat. Based on her best-selling James Beard Award-winning cookbook with the same name,

each episode dives into one of the four main elements of

Samine's cooking ethos. In Salt, Samine cooks soy-brae short ribs with

New York Times magazine Associate Editor Jasmine Hughes.

So we thought it'd be fun to bring in Jasmine to interview Samine and the series director,

Caroline's son.

I am thrilled to be here interviewing the both of you today on the day that

Sami and Billboard was erected on Times Square.

Aha!

How's it feel?

I don't know.

You haven't seen it yet.

But later, little me is going to talk to big me.

Were you expecting to get such celebrity treatment as a humble cook from Berkeley, California?

You mean ever? Yeah. No. Is this something you ever thought about?

Or like Netflix to approach to you to do this? That you'd be, your face would be in Times Square

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