50 Samin Nosrat Quotes for You to Enjoy

Samin Nosrat

American Chef

Born: Nov 7, 1979

Cooking Every Food Home Me You

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The apricot's fleetingly short harvest - only a few weeks long - explains the urge to save the season in a jar. But cooked fruit, no matter how expertly preserved, can never measure up to the flawlessness of its fresh counterpart. Samin Nosrat

My inability to follow recipes as written - without obeying the devil on my shoulder telling me to replace ingredients or change the temperature - is well documented. Samin Nosrat

Me Change Devil Recipes Telling Temperature Follow Obeying Written Well Documented Without Replace Inability Ingredients Shoulder

The temperatures required for caramelization and browning almost always far exceed the boiling point of water. So the presence of water on the surface of a food, or on the bottom of a pan, is a signal that browning can't yet occur. Samin Nosrat

Food Water Signal Temperatures Exceed Point Bottom Almost Always Occur Surface Far Required Boiling Presence Pan

At home, Mom served us turkey breakfast links that she got at the health-food store. But whenever we went out for breakfast, she let my brothers and me order pork sausages (though, inexplicably, not bacon). Samin Nosrat

I'd never been religious, but I'd always obeyed my elders. My decision to become an omnivore was fraught, not because it was a religious transgression but because it was my first act of self-assertion as a young adult. Samin Nosrat

Decision First Become Young Fraught Religious Obeyed Adult Never Because Always Been Young Adult Transgression Elders Act

There are two proper ways to use garlic: pounding and blooming. Neither involves a press, which is little more than a torture device for a beloved ingredient, smushing it up into watery squiggles of inconsistent size that will never cook evenly or vanish into a vinaigrette. If you have one, throw it away! Samin Nosrat

You Will Press Ways Neither Torture Vanish Proper More Pounding Throw Never Device Involves Up Blooming Than Size Which Little Ingredient Cook Use Away Garlic Inconsistent Beloved Two

For the timid or uninitiated, leaf-wrapped foods offer an ideal and gentle introduction to fire cooking. Liberated from the need to worry about whether the fish is sticking to the grill or burning, pay attention instead to the rate of browning on the surface of the leaf, which you'll get to discard whether it chars or remains pale. Samin Nosrat

You Cooking Fire Pay Pay Attention Worry Liberated Introduction About Rate Foods Remains Instead Attention Ideal Leaf Discard Gentle Sticking Surface Fish Offer Timid Get Burning Whether Which Grill Pale Need