Samin Nosrat: Salt. Fat. Acid. Heat. Life!

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  Hey there.

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  My guest today is chef teacher author Samin Nosrat.

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  She has written the mega New York Times bestselling book Salt, Fat, Acid Heat, and also hosts the Netflix series of the same name, which my daughter and I absolutely devoured, is stunningly beautiful.

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  Her book received the James Beard Award for best cookbook, was named Cookbook of the year by the International association of Culinary Professionals.

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  Her Netflix series is really this gorgeous exploration of food and culture and travel and life.

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  She's been cooking professionally since about 2000, and she stumbled upon this career, really as a side job.

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  While she was going to Berkeley, she found her way into this legendary kitchen at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California.

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  Here's the fascinating thing.

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  As a kid, Samin had pretty much no interest in food.

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  And in today's conversation, we explore her journey growing up the child of first generation iranian immigrant parents in Southern California and feeling like a complete outsider, we dive into her lifelong love of writing and books, her experience with anxiety and depression, and the work that she's done to be really present and joyful in her life now.

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  And we track that strange left turn into the world of food.

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  And now, with the massive success of her book and Netflix series, how she's navigating the pace, the exposure, and the opportunities that are coming her way.

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  I sat down with Simine when she was in this really interesting in between window where she had wrapped production on the first season of the show.

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  And she was soon to vanish into house in the middle of the desert for a month to really just sort of contemplate our next move.

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  It was kind of a deep, beautiful, and open time to have this conversation.

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  So excited to share this story with you.

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  I'm 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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