The chef Samin Nosrat lives by the idea that food is love. Her Netflix series, “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat,” and the James Beard Award-winning cookbook that inspired it, were about using food to build community and forge connections. Since then, all of her creative projects and collaborations have focused on inspiring people to cook, and eat, with their friends and loved ones. After the recent loss of her father, Samin has gained an even deeper understanding of what it means to savor a meal — or even an hour — with loved ones. This week, she reads an essay about exactly that: “You May Want to Marry My Husband” by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. It’s one of the most-read Modern Love essays ever.
Love.
Now enter your father.
Love is stronger than anything, and I love you more than anything.
There's love to love.
From the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin.
This is modern love, and we're still celebrating our 20th anniversary, spotlighting our favorite love stories with our favorite writers, musicians.
Musicians, artists.
And today, a chef.
Cooking for someone is kind of the original way to say I love you.
The labor, the time, the care.
All that chopping and kneading and careful seasoning.
So if food is love, then chef and writer Samin Nasrat just might be the most romantic person in the world.
It's rich in flavor.
Yeah.
It's so good.
It's so good.
It's bringing tears to my eyes.
It's so good.
That's Samin on her Netflix show, salt, fat, acid heat, freaking out in the best way over some Parmesan cheese in Italy with the people who spent years making it.
This is Samin in her element, sharing meals and laughs and sometimes tears with other people from the vibrant, delicious dinner she hosts for her friends.