Samin Nosrat Throwback: The Salt Fat Acid Heat Interview
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Milk Street Radio
4.2 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
For this week's special episode, we're replaying our 2017 interview with Samin Nosrat about her now-classic cookbook, Salt Fat Acid Heat. Plus, Dan Pashman weighs in on burgers and we make skirt steak salad.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Christopher Kimball here. We have an interview coming out soon about restaurant gap relationships, |
| 0:05.5 | and we want to hear your stories. Do you spend all your time scrolling through reservation apps |
| 0:10.7 | while your partner couldn't care less? Or maybe you dump your date for being a picky eater, |
| 0:16.0 | or maybe one of you loves to eat out and the other doesn't. So to share your story, please leave us a voicemail. |
| 0:21.9 | The number 617-249-3167. One more time, 617-249-31-67, or send us a voice memo to Radio Tips at |
| 0:34.8 | 175 Milkstreet.com. |
| 0:38.0 | Hey, Christopher Kimball here. |
| 0:39.3 | For today's special episode, we're releasing one of our first shows ever. |
| 0:43.4 | This is our 2017 episode with Samin Nosrat about her first book, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, |
| 0:50.2 | which is now considered a classic. |
| 0:52.6 | Please give it a listen and look out this Friday for a brand new |
| 0:55.5 | Milk Street Radio. Now please enjoy the show. This is Milk Street Radio from PRX. I'm your host, |
| 1:06.7 | Christopher Kimball. What I've noticed is cooking sort of makes you a beginner every time, which I love, you know. |
| 1:13.6 | And so anytime I get cocky and I'm like, oh, I've done this a hundred times, I don't need to pay attention. |
| 1:19.0 | That's the time when I burn it or that's the time when the log rolls off the fire. |
| 1:25.3 | That was Samin Nosrat. She's author of Salt, Fat, Acid Heat, The Four Elements of Good Cooking. |
| 1:31.3 | It's an excellent guide to how cooking works. |
| 1:34.3 | It's also cooking science for cooks who don't like science. |
| 1:37.5 | I'll be speaking to her later in the show. |
| 1:39.6 | But first, it's time to head into the kitchen at Milk Street to check in with Raina Javari about this week's recipe. |
| 1:46.9 | Raina, how are you? |
| 1:47.9 | Hi, Chris. |
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