Good Things

Who’s the author? Samin Nosrat is a professional cook, teacher, and bestselling author. Her career as a chef began at landmark farm-to-table restaurant Chez Panisse in California, where she started out as a busser and ended up working in the kitchen as a cook.

Samin’s 2017 cookbook Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat was named a Sunday Times Book of the Year and won the Fortnum & Mason Best Debut Food Book award. In 2018, she wrote and hosted the critically acclaimed original Netflix documentary of the same name: a four-part series where each episode explores how the core components of fat, salt, acid and heat are utilised – and celebrated – in cooking traditions around the world.

What’s it about? Good Things, the hotly anticipated follow-up to Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, is a love letter to the joy of cooking and sharing meals. Its more than 125 recipes are a culmination of the treasured recipes Samin herself loves to cook.

From flavour-packed chicken dishes to bakes that evoke the nostalgia of childhood, you’ll find an array of recipes that exemplify Samin’s passion for cooking and cooking know-how. Good Things is also packed with tips for sourcing the best kitchen staples, ingredient substitutions, and indispensable kitchen techniques, but above all it is a warm, heartfelt, and personal testament to the power food has to create comfort, delight, and connection.

Recipes we love: Calabrian Chile Crisp, Ricotta Custard Pancakes, Chicken Braised with Apricots and Harissa, Sky-High Focaccia, and Yellow Buttermilk Cake

Perfect for: Fans of Nigella Lawson’s cookbooks – especially Cook, Eat, Repeat – as well as anyone who loved Samin Nosrat’s previous hit cookbook and Netflix series Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat.