If you’re looking for some good things to eat, you might want to check out Samin Nosrat’s wonderful new cookbook, Good Things. Good Things presents 125 recipes for dishes Samin Nosrat loves to cook, including ricotta custard pancakes–absolutely delicious!–roast chicken, Calabrian chili crisp, sky-high focaccia, and yummy yellow cake with chocolate frosting.
“Samin Nosrat is a professional cook, teacher, and bestselling author. Her career as a chef began at landmark farm-to-table restaurant Chez Panisse in California, where she started out as a busser and ended up working in the kitchen as a cook.”
I’m a fan of Samin’s 2017 cookbook Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat was named a Sunday Times Book of the Year and won the Fortnum & Mason Best Debut Food Book award. If you want to understand how the components of food work together to produce great tastes, this is the book for you!
In 2018, Samin Nosrat wrote and hosted the critically acclaimed original Netflix documentary based on Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. The four-part series, where each episode explores how the core components of fat, salt, acid and heat are utilized, found an enthusiastic audience (including me!) and revealed some of the traditional secrets of making great food. What are your favorite Good Things? GRADE: A
I like to eat as much as the next guy, but I don’t buy cookbooks or watch cooking shows! Over the past couple of years, I’ve grown fond of peppers (red, green, yellow) and have them whenever I go to El Toro, but gourmet dishes are beyond my interests!
Bob, I’m a big fan of peppers, too!
I can’t believe it’s been eight years since SALT, FAT, ACID, HEAT. I love to cook, but now that John and I are empty-nesters (and both trying to eat healthier/low-carb/low-fat), elaborate meals are saved for special occasions.
Deb, many of the recipes in GOOD THINGS are simple…and delicious! I love the pancakes!
I saw the first one as a TV series. What a likable host she was.
Patti, and what a likable book GOOD THINGS is! I’m still working my way through the recipes.
Jackie is guessing that Diane is doing the bulk of the cooking. We don’t read cookbooks as a rule, though Jackie still has the ones she used in her cooking days. I do like an occasional cooking show.
Jeff, I know my way around a kitchen. I’d estimate Diane prepares 60% of the meals and I do the rest. Of course, I’m putting buying pizza and bringing it home for dinner in my column!
I watch a lot of cooking shows, but Larry does most of the cooking. I do bake chicken and meatloaf with a cheese center. I also make chili with cinnamon and rehydrated dried cherries, and chicken curry salad.
Maggie, that all sounds good! I’m fond of making Italian dinners like Stuffed Shells, Spaghetti Parmesan, and lasagna!