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Samin Nosrat

Chef · Author · Broadcaster — How cooking works, taught rather than ranked, and San Francisco eating read through technique. Her picks explain a dish's mechanics as often as they praise it.

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Samin Nosrat is a chef and cookbook author who moved to the Bay Area in 1997 and cooked at Chez Panisse in Berkeley early in her career, where she started by filling in as a produce driver. Her book Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love was published in September 2025. She owns no restaurant, so every room she names is somebody else's.

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