Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat: Conversation Starters

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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat: Conversation Starters

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking is an illustrated cookbook written by Samin Nosrat. The book shows a new way of cooking into just four elements. Nosrat is teaching everyone from kids in the middle school to skilled professional chefs to cook using Salt, Fat, Acid, and Heat. Nosrat believes that Salt enhances a dish's flavor, Fat carries flavor and creates texture, Acid balances the flavor in a recipe, and Heat determines the food's texture. The book explains how to make the cooking right and why a person should be doing it in the right manner with any ingredients at any time it is wanted.
Samin Nosrat's Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking was published on April 25, 2017, by Simon and Schuster. It became #1 at New York Times Bestseller and #1 at Amazon's Cooking, Food, and Wine Reference category. It has also been made into a four-part Netflix series starring the author, Samin Nosrat, and premiered on October 11, 2018.

A Brief Look Inside: 
 
EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER
than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive, 
and the characters and its world still live on. 
Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to
bring us beneath the surface of the page
and invite us into the world that lives on. 
 
These questions can be used to create hours of conversation:
 
• Foster a deeper understanding of the book
• Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups
• Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately
• Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before
 
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Daily Books
• Release date: Jan 16, 2020
• ISBN: 9788835359661

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Introducing Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat is an illustrated cookbook. Through the book, Nosrat was able to teach readers her revolutionary yet simple way of cooking. The text is full of charming narratives, cooking illustrations, and an enjoyable kitchen approach. Nosrat shares the four elements for everyone to use in good cooking. She explains how salt, even those that looked like crystals, can affect a dish's flavor and the proteins included in the cooked food. She describes how fat can result in the crispiness of the food. Nosrat also analyzes how heat influences flavor through caramelization. She demonstrates how to balance all of these elements when making a meal.

The book has 462 pages and covers a lot of basics. Nosrat wrote engagingly and tried to make the book seem like she's talking to the readers personally. When she talks about how important fat is, she would tell readers to try to imagine cooking without using fats. She would also suggest trying to imagine croissants without butter before commenting that it's a pointless case. Nosrat would then cleverly blends in anecdotes from her life experiences when she used to be an aspiring cook to help her readers understand. She would also define her occurrences as the daughter of an Iranian immigrant to help deliver her points