Samin Nosrat

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.

Creates the principle-based cooking book — Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat organizes cooking knowledge around four fundamental principles (salt for flavor, fat for texture and flavor, acid for balance, heat for transformation) rather than recipes, making it the first cooking book that teaches cooking rather than providing instructions.