Samin Nosrat : (6)

" When I left restaurants, I had to learn to be a home cook. " - Samin Nosrat

" I could probably go on for a long time about the differences between Northern California and Southern California Mexican food. " - Samin Nosrat

" Browning butter affects more than just the color and the flavor of its milk solids; the water that butter contains also simmers away. " - Samin Nosrat

" It’s easy to discount water’s importance in the kitchen. After all, it has no flavor, and more often than not, it’s left off ingredient lists, making it seem like an afterthought. Yet water is an essential element of almost everything we cook and eat, and it affects the flavor and texture of all our food. " - Samin Nosrat

" One pillar of my cooking is that salad dressing is sacred and that you always make it with the most delicious oil you can find. Usually, that means extra-virgin olive oil. " - Samin Nosrat

" 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 community in San Diego – where, in second grade, I was called a terrorist. " - Samin Nosrat