There’s never been anyone like Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, and there never will be. She is such an important source of inspiration for me, reluctant recipe writer and follower that I am. Samin Nosrat Read Quote
I wake up naturally and begrudgingly around 6:10 A.M. That’s wired in so deeply that I wake up at that time no matter where I am, in any time zone. I wish I could sleep later. Samin Nosrat Read Quote
I live by myself, so I derive a lot of joy from being with my friends and their families. Samin Nosrat Read Quote
I’ve had an untraditional trajectory with food: I was in my mom’s home, then I was a college kid making mac and cheese and quesadillas, and then I was a professional cook. I never had that time where you figure out how to cook for yourself at home. Samin Nosrat Read Quote
People never used to look at me twice. That was my superpower: When I met someone, I could decide whether to care about them based on whether they cared about me. Samin Nosrat Read Quote
I grew up eating and loving Persian food, going to school, and everyone making fun of me. Samin Nosrat Read Quote
I think the goal of ‘Chef’s Table’ is that you are so moved by the story that you want to go and eat that person’s food at their restaurant. But I wanted the takeaway from my show to be that you go and cook the thing. Samin Nosrat Read Quote
I would say, probably 7 or 8 years into my cooking career, it stopped being about just food for me. Food’s really fun, but I’ve always been about people, and I realized that food is just a really convenient tool for me to connect people and bring them together. Samin Nosrat Read Quote
