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Every book Samin Nosrat recommended on podcasts
Samin Nosrat appeared on Freakonomics Radio to discuss her culinary career, her creative process, and notable cookbooks. She spoke about the extended writing process behind her acclaimed book, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, noting that she had the initial idea around 1999 or 2000 and that the book finally came out in 2017. Samin Nosrat also discussed the landscape of culinary literature by referencing The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker. While speaking about the lack of diversity among authors of general cookbooks, she remarked that despite being an unknown person of color in an industry where general cookbooks are traditionally written by white women, she pursued her own path. Throughout the podcast appearances, she reflected on the long journey of bringing her seminal text to publication and the broader cultural context of cookbook authorship within the food publishing industry.
Books recommended by Samin Nosrat
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat is a celebrated culinary guide that deconstructs cooking into four foundational elements to help home cooks master the craft without relying strictly on recipes.
Discussed“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.”
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Joy of Cooking
Joy of Cooking by Irma S.
Discussed“and even though I'm a nobody even though nobody's ever heard of me and I'm a brown person and brown people don't write General cookbooks the only General cookbooks that exist are The Joy of Cooking by a white lady”
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Books Samin Nosrat wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| Samin Nosrat Always Wanted to Be Famous | Freakonomics Radio | Bonus Episode | Freakonomics Radio | 2023-01-18 | 2 |
| 530. What's Wrong with Being a One-Hit Wonder? | Freakonomics Radio | 2023-01-12 | 1 |