2023-01-16
39 分钟And with her book "Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat," she succeeded. Now she's not so sure how to feel about all the attention.
Hey there, it's Steven Dubner, and this is a bonus episode with Samin Nosrat.
She is the author of Salt Fat Acid Heat, a best selling book about food and cooking, and about Samin herself.
The book was also turned into a four part Netflix series you may have seen.
Samin was featured in our most recent episode.
What's wrong with being a one hit wonder?
As you probably know, for most of our episodes, I speak with a variety of guests.
Parts of the conversations make it into the finished episode, but the rest gets edited out.
Once in a while, there's a full interview that's so interesting and surprising, and we think, ugh, it's too bad no one else will ever hear the whole thing.
And that's how we felt about this conversation.
So we decided to go ahead and publish it as a bonus episode.
It is a wide ranging and candid conversation about the upsides and downsides of living a creative life.
It's about growing up in an immigrant family and feeling out of place and feeling additionally displaced after a family tragedy.
If you have already listened to what's wrong with being a one hit wonder, there will be a few familiar parts.
And Samin also makes a couple references to one of the research papers we discussed in that episode.
That study showed that first time cookbook authors who win an award tend to not publish another book within five years, theoretically because theyre afraid to diminish their newfound creative reputation.
As you will hear, there are parts of that paper she agrees with and others, not so much.
Anyway, I think youll see why we thought this was a conversation worth hearing in full.
As always, thanks for listening.
Hi, my name is Samin Nasrat.
Im a writer and a cook and a person.