Samin nosrat biography wikipedia

Nosrat was born in San Diego , California. She grew up eating mostly Iranian cuisine , and though she did not learn to cook until she was an adult, she has said that food was an important part of her childhood.

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Nosrat attended the University of California, Berkeley , majoring in English. In , as a sophomore in college, Nosrat ate dinner at Chez Panisse and immediately applied to work there as a busser. She later worked with Michael Pollan , and was included in his book and the Netflix documentary television series Cooked as "the chef who taught Michael Pollan how to cook".

Nosrat's cookbook Salt Fat Acid Heat , illustrated by Wendy MacNaughton and including a foreword by Michael Pollan, explains the fundamental principles of good cooking which she defines by the four pillars named in the title. Instead of focusing on recipes alone, each pillar has its own chapter where Nosrat teaches readers through stories and wisdom gained from her years as a professional chef and cooking teacher.

Rare for a cookbook, it teaches readers "from the ground up, how to be a good cook," [ 19 ] functioning more as a textbook than a recipe collection. A Netflix docu-series and travelogue based on the cookbook, also called Salt Fat Acid Heat , was released on October 11, , with each of the four episodes based on one of the four elements of cooking set out in the title.

In March , Nosrat and friend Hrishikesh Hirway , who created the popular podcast Song Exploder , started the podcast Home Cooking , which set out to help people cook for themselves in the midst of the COVID global health crisis. It currently does not have a public plan to either continue or end, though the most recent episode is from December The show is structured as a cooking advice show where Nosrat answers listener questions about cooking.

It initially started as a way of answering the question, "How do I use the things I have in my pantry? It later grew beyond this type of troubleshooting. What to Cook will also cover four elements, the ones used for decision making: time, ingredients, resources, and preferences.