Jessica Battilana has been my kindred cooking spirit for more than 10 years. Our careers as cooks and writers have taken us… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
I love mayonnaise. It's one of the first lessons I teach my cooking students. Turning eggs and oil into an emulsion -… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
For the timid or uninitiated, leaf-wrapped foods offer an ideal and gentle introduction to fire cooking. Liberated from the need to worry… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
Friends have warned me that I can be a bully in the kitchen. With every fledgling relationship, I'm anxiously aware that the… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
At some point during every cooking class I teach, I do my signature move: dramatically add handful upon handful of salt to… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
A successful shrimp boil requires layering ingredients into the pot so that everything is done cooking at once. A carefully timed choreography… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
I would say, probably 7 or 8 years into my cooking career, it stopped being about just food for me. Food's really… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
Years of cooking have taught me that the harder a flour is, the 'thirstier' it is. In other words, harder flours tend… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
One pillar of my cooking is that salad dressing is sacred and that you always make it with the most delicious oil… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
Inexpensive and forgiving, kosher salt is fantastic for everyday cooking and tastes pure. — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
I love a Yorkshire pudding. It's basically pancake batter that's fried in beef fat and puffs up; it's like you can't go wrong. — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
I love roast chicken, juicy summer tomatoes, and carrot cake slathered with tangy cream-cheese frosting. — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
Salt's relationship to flavor is multidimensional: It has its own particular taste, and it both balances and enhances the flavor of other ingredients. — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
Very early in my culinary career, while helping another cook prepare the staff meal, I stirred some chopped raw garlic and herbs into a… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
There's a certain kind of dark-crusted sourdough bread I'm incapable of resisting. A sixth sense alerts me anytime I veer within a three-block radius… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
There's never been anyone like Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, and there never will be. She is such an important source of inspiration for me, reluctant recipe… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
There are so many food shows, really beautiful ones, that exist to elevate professional cooking and professional chefs. But there aren't that many that… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
There are two proper ways to use garlic: pounding and blooming. Neither involves a press, which is little more than a torture device for… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
The people-pleasing and performing is 100% ingrained in me, partly because I was a little brown girl growing up in a very white, homogeneous… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
In the wake of a failed relationship, I'm often flooded with if-onlys. — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
The only good things I've seen emerge from a steamer are tamales, couscous, and dumplings - maybe the occasional artichoke or delicate fish fillet.… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
