Cooks Quote by Samin Nosrat

“People love giving cooks spoons, I've noticed. Or, at least, they love giving them to me.” quote by Samin Nosrat — Download Open image

“People love giving cooks spoons, I've noticed. Or, at least, they love giving them to me.”

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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.

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I love roast chicken, juicy summer tomatoes, and carrot cake slathered with tangy cream-cheese frosting.

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Salt's relationship to flavor is multidimensional: It has its own particular taste, and it both balances and enhances the flavor of other ingredients.

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I hate recipes.

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Very early in my culinary career, while helping another cook prepare the staff meal, I stirred some chopped raw garlic and herbs into a…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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There are two proper ways to use garlic: pounding and blooming. Neither involves a press, which is little more than a torture device for…

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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…

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In the wake of a failed relationship, I'm often flooded with if-onlys.

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The only good things I've seen emerge from a steamer are tamales, couscous, and dumplings - maybe the occasional artichoke or delicate fish fillet.…

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