3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Samin Nosrat's 2017 James Beard Award-winning cooking guide — organized around four fundamental principles (salt, fat, acid, heat) rather than recipes — which teaches the principles underlying all cooking rather than providing step-by-step instructions.
Iranian-American chef and food writer — author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat — Netflix series host — who created the most pedagogically effective cooking book by organizing around fundamental principles rather than recipes.
Timothy Ferriss's 2012 book — using cooking as a vehicle for teaching his meta-learning methodology (DiSSS: Deconstruct, Select, Sequence, Stakes) — arguing that any skill can be learned to an intermediate level quickly through the right sequencing.