Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

I wrote a book called Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat.

So I wrote a book called Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. That took me a very long time to write.

I loved your first book.

I already did that.

I'm enough. And what I have to say is enough. And that's okay.

I wrote a book called Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat.

So I wrote a book called Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. That took me a very long time to write.

And I had the idea for that book probably sometime around 1999 or 2000. And that book came out in 2017.

The idea, the germination of the idea to the publishing of the book, that's how long it took. The act of writing was about three and a half years maybe.

I loved your first book.

I wrote a book called Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat.

I wrote a book called Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. That took me a very long time to write.

And I had the idea for that book probably sometime around 1999 or 2000. And that book came out in 2017.

The idea, the germination of the idea to the publishing of the book, that's how long it took. The act of writing was about three and a half years maybe.

on behalf of all your readers and fans, of which I am one, I loved your first book.

I wrote a book called Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat that took me a very long time to write.

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat published in 2017 sold more than a million copies in the US alone.

Yeah, I hated that paper. I found it really insulting.

I mean, it's just like hit me where it hurts, you know?

Oh, making a book is truly the worst thing in the world. It's the hardest thing in the world.

I wrote a book called Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat that took me a very long time to write.

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat published in 2017 sold more than a million copies in the US alone.

Yeah, I hated that paper. I mean, it hit me where it hurts, you know?

Oh, making a book is truly the worst thing in the world. It's the hardest thing in the world.

It would kill my soul to be an accountant.

I wrote a book called Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat that took me a very long time to write.

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat published in 2017 sold more than a million copies in the US alone. And it was turned into a popular Netflix series starring Nasrat.

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat is about cooking, but it's also about Nasrat herself and the history of cooking and a lot more.

That's how long it took. The act of writing, I think, was about three and a half years maybe.

Yeah, I hated that paper. I mean, it's just like hit me where it hurts, you know?

Samin wrote the book Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat and she also has a Netflix show by the same name.

Salt, fat, acid, heat.

We had a moment while watching-- Salt, fat, acid, heat. Where they were in the Italy episode, and we started looking at each other like, we're going to do this, right?

Because the whole point of salt, fat, acid, heat is to teach you how to think outside the bounds of a recipe.

And I think what recipes do and they are necessary is they but they make people feel like if they don't have this ingredient, this tool, this specific thing that they can't make it and right now it's like the time of substitutions and it's the time of improvisation.

My whole theory as a cook my whole philosophy, my whole thing with cooking is think about what role those ingredients and tools are playing and then figure out what else you can use so you don't have to run to the store.

Semin Nusrat, author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat.

That's an excerpt from my conversation with Semin Nusrat, the author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat.

Her 2017 book about cooking, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, had been a triumph. People calling it the best cookbook of the year, the best cookbook of the century so far. It was decidedly not a book of recipes.

Her 2017 book about cooking, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, had been a triumph. People calling it the best cookbook of the year, the best cookbook of the century so far.

We'll talk with Samin Nosrat the author of Salt Fat Acid Heat her new book Good Things is filled with recipes which is surprising since she's long said she hates them.

I'm working right now on a little bit of a communication strategy that's based on salt fat acid heat it's a cookbook it's sort of like what are the ingredients that are really needed for communication and I've just been using it as a lecturer for now just to see how it works something about it's a little abstract I gotta like get down to more of the nitty-gritty.