Hey, so my guest today is award-winning chef, writer, teacher, and gatherer of people,

Samin Nosrat. She wrote the iconic book, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, and starred in the beloved

Netflix series of the same name that really changed the way millions of people understand food.

And now she's back with a new blockbuster book, Good Things, which celebrates the power of

simple meals and shared tables and

the essential role of community in a life well lived. But our conversation, it's about something

much bigger, life. Some highlights include a moment of unexpected rebellion that just cracked

open a lifetime of swallowed emotion and sparked a new sense of self, or a surprising

truth about achievement that reveals why doing the quote right things can still

leave you feeling just deeply empty and alone.

Or a subtle but powerful shift in how you think about time that can reshape the way you

live and love and work and gather in a simple weekly ritual that becomes a lifeline back

to connection, belonging, and joy. These are just a few of the threads we explore, really in a

conversation that feels tender and honest and human. It's about the quiet moments that shape us,

the loud ones that shatter us, and the small, consistent acts that stitch us back together. It's about

letting yourself be seen and letting others in, and it's about reclaiming joy and meaning and

presence in the most every day of ways. This conversation, it moves through life's big transitions,

identity, fame, depression, friendship, weekly dinners, and the meaning of a good life and the

healing power of sharing time and food and presence with people you cannot get enough of.

It's wide open and intimate in the most beautiful way. So excited to share it with you.

I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is Good Life Project.

Yeah, you know, excited to dive in. I really love talking to you last time. Yeah, I've learned since our last convo also that you and I have some kind of weird overlaps. Oh, cool. So out of the gate, I open up your gorgeous new book, and of course, this is gorgeous because it's you. Thank you. And I'm looking at the photo opposite the intro page, And it's this old blue notebook that's obviously really well used. And sitting on top of it is a black wing palomino

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