Samin Nosrat's ten favorite books

Samin Nosrat is a writer, teacher, and chef. Called “a go-to resource for matching the correct techniques with the best ingredients” by The New York Times, and “the next Julia Child” by NPR’s All Things Considered, she’s been cooking professionally since 2000, when she first stumbled into the kitchen at Chez Panisse restaurant. She lives, cooks, surfs, and gardens in Berkeley, California. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat is her first book.

A documentary series based on Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat is now streaming on Netflix.

One of Nosrat's ten favorite books, as shared at Vulture.com:

The Taste of Country Cooking by Edna Lewis

I love Miss Lewis’s intimate, evocative writing about growing up on a farm in Freetown, Virginia. The true — and generally uncredited — progenitor of farm-to-table eating in this country, Miss Lewis is a legend, and all American cooks should get to know her writing and her recipes.

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--Marshal Zeringue