Stirring the Pot: Let’s Do Lunch

Stirring the Pot: Let’s Do Lunch

Samin Nosrat, renowned cookbook author, docu-series creator of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, and food activist, is, by her own admission, averse to recipes. “I could never escape the feeling that each [recipe] was an attempt to capture, quantify, and define the ineffable,” she writes in her latest homage to home cooking, Good Things. She encourages cooks to trust their own judgement and senses. A recipe is not a “rigid prescription,” she adds. It is a …