Samin Nosrat: The Entire Menu at El Molino Central
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Samin Nosrat is the James Beard Award winning, New York Times bestselling author of the book "Salt Fat Acid Heat" and the charming host of the Netflix series by the same name. Samin laughs easily, is brimming with curiosity and brings new life and authenticity to the saturated world of food media. Get yourself a boyfriend who looks at you the way Samin looks at a roast chicken.
Rachel chats with Karen Taylor, owner of El Molino, about what makes her tortillas and tamales so special and Samin and Rachel debate which is the best way to wrap a burrito: in foil or yellow paper.
Then we welcome Bon Appétit magazine's senior editor Andy Baraghani to the show. Andy says he spent his life trying to hide his Iranian heritage until a food magazine asked him to create a Persian spread that reconnected him to his culture. And Rachel cooks tahdig with Omid Roustaei, a passionate Persian cooking teacher in Seattle.
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| 0:00.0 | Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights. |
| 0:05.6 | Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show. |
| 0:11.6 | Cairo, Seattle. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most. |
| 0:34.5 | Today on the program, Samin Nasrat. |
| 0:39.4 | Samin is the author of the New York Times bestselling James Beard Award winning book, |
| 0:41.5 | Salt, Fat, Acid Heat. |
| 0:44.3 | And she's a food columnist for the New York Times magazine. |
| 0:48.8 | And those of us who have followed her writing and appearances on podcasts and online cooking videos were already very charmed by Samin. |
| 0:52.7 | She laughs a lot. |
| 0:53.8 | She's hyper-curious. She laughs a lot. She's hyper curious. |
| 0:55.2 | She brings new life and light to the very saturated food and cooking media world. |
| 1:00.2 | But last year, Netflix released her four-part food and travel show, also called Salt, |
| 1:04.8 | Fat, Acid Heat, and the rest of the country fell in love. |
| 1:08.6 | And part of her likability is how down to earth she is. |
| 1:11.9 | How relatable she is. |
| 1:13.2 | I just made a joke in therapy about how I'll never be the person who buys like $10,000 |
| 1:17.3 | pants. |
| 1:18.6 | Samin talks about growing up Iranian-American, her love of double carbs, a.k.a. spaghetti |
| 1:24.9 | sandwiches, and her favorite Mexican restaurant, El Molino Central in California's |
| 1:30.6 | Sonoma County. El Molino is owned by Karen Taylor. And I know people sort of can criticize this, |
| 1:36.9 | but I wasn't born in Mexico and I wasn't raised by Mexican mothers. So Karen and I will talk about |
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