Samin Nosrat on Nourishing Food, Community and All the ‘Good Things’

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Even after the tremendous success of her cookbook, “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat” and the Netflix series it inspired, Samin Nosrat found that, she was lonely and depressed. What grounded her, and helped her claw back the joy in her life, was regularly cooking and eating with friends and committing to community – one “lazy sugo” at a time . We talk to Nosrat about her journey and her new book, “Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love.” Guests: Samin Nosrat, chef and author of "Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love: A Cookbook"; her previous book is the bestseller "Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.3	Samin Nosrat is perhaps the Bay Area's best known chef after the runaway success of her book and the Netflix show it inspired,
0:56.0	Salt, Fat, Acid Heat. Her follow-up book, Good Things, is a very different work. It's not a manifesto
1:03.0	against the recipe, for one, and it's as much about the rituals that surround dinner as the food
1:09.0	that's on the plates. We talk with Nosrat about committing to community
1:12.7	and her tips for building the right infrastructure of connection.
1:16.8	That's all coming up next, right after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. Today we're talking with Samin Nosrat, the best-selling author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, and her new book, Good Things, which is about
1:45.9	the rituals we use to ground ourselves in community and the food that we use to glue
1:50.4	ourselves together.
1:52.1	Welcome to forums, Samin.
1:53.5	Oh, I like that.
1:54.1	We're just gluing ourselves together with food.
1:56.2	Hopefully not, like, literally with the food.
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