Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

De: Samin Nosrat

Narrado por: Samin Nosrat

Samin Nosrat reads "The Four Elements of Good Cooking", part one of her New York Times best seller Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

A visionary new master class in cooking that distills decades of professional experience into just four simple elements, from the woman declared "America's next great cooking teacher" by Alice Waters.

In the tradition of The Joy of Cooking and How to Cook Everything comes Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, an ambitious new approach to cooking by a major new culinary voice. Chef and writer Samin Nosrat has taught everyone from professional chefs to middle school kids to author Michael Pollan to cook using her revolutionary yet simple philosophy. Master the use of just four elements - salt, which enhances flavor; fat, which delivers flavor and generates texture; acid, which balances flavor; and heat, which ultimately determines the texture of food - and anything you cook will be delicious. By explaining the hows and whys of good cooking, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat will teach and inspire a new generation of cooks how to confidently make better decisions in the kitchen and cook delicious meals with any ingredients, anywhere, at any time.

Echoing Samin's own journey from culinary novice to award-winning chef, Salt, Fat Acid, Heat immediately bridges the gap between home and professional kitchens. With a lighthearted approach to kitchen science, Samin demystifies the four elements of good cooking for everyone.

Download the accompanying reference guide.©2017 Samin Nosrat. All rights reserved. (P)2017 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Samin Nosrat's narration of her innovative cooking guide is informative and conversational. Nosrat is a helpful friend by your side in the kitchen, cheerfully imparting culinary wisdom through a combination of accessible scientific explanations and tales of past cooking disasters - and triumphs - of her own." (AudioFile)

Must read for novice like me.

My wife requested this book last Christmas and I bought it for her. She later requested the audiobook and after purchasing, I decided to listen to it as well. It is a treasure trove of revealing information about the basics of cooking. Samin has a great personality and is so pleasant to listen to! I thoroughly enjoyed the read and the Netflix shows that correlate. I highly recommend this book!

Enlightening and entertaining at the same time

This book was enlightening in a way that no other cookbook or autobiography has been. These fundamentals, things most chefs I assume learn in school, seem simple, and probably are to many people, but weren't for me. For example, my husband doesn't cook with salt. Growing up, his father had health issues and they cooked without salt and added it at the table for those able to have it. My husband has cooked this way forever! So, when he started cooking for me, and I insisted that adding salt at the table WAS NOT THE SAME!! :) He was not convinced. I would hover while he was preparing meal, asking, want me to season that? After reading this book, I know why salt applied at different times makes a difference in how the meal tastes. I can now explain why I like salt applied before cooking, and I even learned what a difference salting meats hours or a day in advance can make! I also learned that adding lemon juice can give a salt like taste to meals and I've used it in soups when I wanted to limit salt, like when I cooked for my grandmother who like my husband's father, couldn't have a lot of salt. It works!!

Besides the great cooking advice, the stories the author tells were very entertaining, I greatly enjoyed this book. I bought it in hardback as well I liked it so much.

Great!

Fun, informative, interesting, easy read. If you have any desire at all to become a better cook, this is for you. Loved it.

Best book ever

This book was awesome. I thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of it and as a chef learned so much. Also many ideas not taught in culinary school that I was already doing were reaffirmed here. A great guide for anyone to help build a great meal and confidence in doing so. Thank you Samin

Changed how I look at food

This book has helped a beginner home cook like me look at food in a different light. It has pointed me in the direction of thinking about how to fix a dish instead of being upset it wasn’t perfect. I liked it so much I bought a print version for my mom.

Interesting!

Gotta listen to this twice. Quite a bit of information:) salt fat acid heat yeah

inspired to cook

just like many other great books this inspires me and makes me ditch the fear of cooking and want to take it head on!

Excellent!

Learned a lot from this book! Thanks for sharing all your wisdom and experience in the kitchen with the rest of us!

Makes you think about each step as you cook!

Loved this book, love how now every time I cook little bits of the book pop up in my mind and cause me to slow make changes to make every meal better! Highly recommend

Wow! Love this book

I liked the way Samin breaks down everything about cooking. She is a very gifted teacher and I can really understand what to do when I go to the kitchen to prepare a meal. Dean loves to cook and I just sat around and let him do it. Now it’s become an adventure for me. I’m so happy!