Cook Samin Nosrat (‘Salt Fat Acid Heat’) Returns with ‘Good Things’ - Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Eight years ago, cook and writer Samin Nosrat created a kitchen staple with <a href="https://www.saltfatacidheat.com/">Salt Fat Acid Heat</a>: a New York Times bestseller that later became a hit Netflix series. Nosrat returns with <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622646/good-things-by-samin-nosrat/">Good Things</a>, a collection of personal recipes straight from her dining table.   We discuss the influences that shaped the book (8:30), the ephemerality (and pleasure) of produce (9:30), her complicated San Diego childhood growing up with Iranian parents (17:30), the high expectations placed before her (22:40), and how she eventually found her way to Chez Panisse in Berkeley (32:00).   On the back-half, Samin talks about her salad days working in restaurants (46:00), grand openings and closings (42:30), the origins of Salt Fat Acid Heat (47:00), what The Bear gets right about cooki...