Cooking as an Act of Love | Samin Nosrat [Best Of]

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  My guest on this best of episode is Samin Nosrat, who was studying English at Berkeley when she took this crazy detour into the kitchen at the iconic Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California that would change the course of her life.

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  She fell in love with food, with the business of food, with the art and craft of cooking and the kitchen, the community, and how that blended with her love of taking care of people that she loved.

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  Eventually, she worked her way up becoming a cook and took meticulous notes about the process, discovered that cooking came down to four things.

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  Salt, fat, acid, and heat.

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  And if you could master these things, you could cook anything for anyone, anytime, without even using recipes.

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  She began to teach and then penned this gorgeous illustrated cookbook called, you guessed it, salt, fat, acid, heat, which became this massive phenomenon and then launched a tv series by the same name.

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  Along the way, she has also awakened to and become very open about living with her own mental stresses and depression and anxiety and how she has navigated this, especially as her career and her life have made her much more of a public person and Persona.

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  We explore all of this in today's really rich and wonderful best of conversation.

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  So excited to share it with you on Jonathan Fields and this is good life project.

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  There's a lot of family secrets that I'm not fully privy to, so I have sort of done my best to piece things together, but I don't know all of the information still.

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  But my dad's family is a religion called Baha'I, and my mom's family is Muslim, and Baha'is were persecuted for many years in Iran.

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  And so I think people who were not Muslim in Iran sensed oppression sort of slowly coming down.

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  So even though they weren't, you know, it's not like they had a premonition that the revolution was gonna happen.

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  They knew.

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  They knew something was happening.

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  Everyone in my dad's family sort of split into, like, spread all over the world.

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  People went to Australia and Europe and all different places, and my grandparents came to San Diego.

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  I don't know exactly why.

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  And then my dad followed, and he brought my mom.

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  Yeah, it's interesting, your dad's baha'I.

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