Stephen Presents: Chef Samin Nosrat

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

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🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Stephen hits the podcast booth to give you all the raw, behind-the-scenes Late Show gossip you won't hear on TV! Then we flip the flapjack over to Chef Samin Nosrat, who teaches Stephen how to make ricotta pancakes and talks about wanting to be a poet long before she became interested in cooking. Her new cookbook, “Good Things: Recipes and Rituals with People You Love,” is available now at https://ciaosamin.com. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. This is The Late Show Pod Show. I am honored to be joined by Stephen Colbert himself.
0:10.7	I am honored to be next to someone so honored.
0:14.2	Okay. So Samin Nostrad just came out with the book Good Things. She's got the amazing salt-fat acid heat.
0:21.5	I love it.
0:22.1	You want to know my order of enjoying salt-fat acid heat?
0:24.3	Yeah.
0:24.8	I go salt.
0:25.9	Yeah.
0:26.4	Because I love all the, basically, the soy sauce making.
0:31.2	Uh, part of that episode.
0:32.9	Then I go fat because I like, it's an italy.
0:36.2	They're talking about like pork and, like, using the oil and the cheese and the nuts to make
0:41.3	a pesto.
0:42.8	And then then I go heat and then acid.
0:46.3	I'm not as much interested in pickling or the like the or or the use of like sour oranges or something like that.
0:54.2	It's not just my, not my jam, baby. It doesn't make my mouth salad. or the use of like sour oranges or something like that. Totally.
0:54.5	It's not just my, not my jam, baby. It doesn't make my mouth salivate. Yeah, totally. But it is an important, like, with, I'm not a very good cook. And I think reading that book was like, oh, that is usually what I'm missing. The acid to brighten everything up. Exactly, exactly. So it's more of like a learning. Shall we tell people what happened on the segment?
1:13.1	Is that part of it?
1:13.9	I would love to hear.
1:14.6	What you, acid to brighten everything up. Exactly, exactly. So it's more of like a learning. Shall we tell people what happened on the segment? Is that part of it?
1:13.9	I would love to hear. What you won't see at home, I don't think, is that they test everything
1:20.7	that we're going to cook multiple times, all the equipment, the ingredients, everything.
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