Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the three questions. I'm your host, Andy Richter, and today I'm talking to Samin Nasrat.

Samin is a chef, TV host, food writer, and podcaster. She's the author of the New York Times number one bestseller, salt, fat, acid heat, mastering the elements of good cooking, which was also a really fantastic Netflix show.

Her second cookbook, Good Things, is available for pre-order now.

She'll be embarking on a book tour in September to promote the book.

Dates and locations can be found on her website, chow-sameen.com slash appearances.

And that's chow like the Italian.

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After a three-year hiatus, her podcast, Home Cooking,

will release an eight-episode season later this year.

She launched a substack earlier this year called A Grain of Salt

that includes recipes and unrecipes, video tutorials, and field trips.

Here's my wonderful conversation with Samin Nasrat.

But I went on the way home last night, I went 80, which felt very transgressive. Wow. Yeah. It probably goes like 130 or something. Right, right, right. I'm like, no, I'm not doing that. I'm just like a, it's not like I'm a total rule follower. I just know that the second I'll break a rule, I'll get caught. Like that has been my experience my whole life. Yeah, yeah. Like, yeah, the minute I, the minute I do the bad thing. But were you, I mean, were your parents strict? Like did they? Yes, very. Yeah, like a. Yes, and also as, like, a girl, I got extra...

My brothers had a lot more leeway than I did. Right, right. Yeah. And do you think also, too, it's because there was this sort of like escaping an oppressive regime that sort of made them... I mean, we could talk about this if you are. We are. We are. We are. Yeah. Yeah. I think from my mom, I think a lot of it had to do with a

general distrust. Both my parents, well, my dad has passed away, but were our conspirator, like,

hardcore conspiracy theorists. But I cut them some slack because, like, they survived an actual, like, CIA

conspiracy in their country, you know? And so there, there was a lot of that sort of just

general distrust of everything. Yeah. And then, and then to, like, complicate that my, uh, I had an

older sister who died when I was very young. And she had sort of, she was born with a terminal brain cancer that like pretty much no child sort of at that time could survive.

Wow.

And how long did she live?

She was three when she died.

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