Day 2 of the ✨ 13 Days of Recommended Holiday Reality TV 🧂
2. Salt Fat Acid Heat
The holiday magic
Netflix’s description ► “the essential guide to the basic elements of good cooking”
why I recommend it ► the holidays often involve great food, and this show helped me understand it—and appreciate it even more
fyi ► The book is great too! And Samin just came out with a new book, Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love
where to watch ►
subscription: Netflix
Why you should watch
When I interviewed Samin about this show and food television, from Yan Can Cook to Emeril, we talked about her inspiration—and also about how she chose what to include in the series, which is just four episodes. (She said making those decisions led to “heartbreaking lessons.”)
With Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, her goal is “to teach you, and to make you feel when you’re done watching, you can go in the kitchen and do something now.”
Having watched everything from PBS to Food Network instructional cooking shows, but also loving what shows like Chef’s Table brought to the, uh, food reality TV table, Samin thought to herself,
“Why can’t I have a show that’s beautiful with incredible cinematic style with the beautiful filmmaking that gets this sensory inspiration across, but also serves to be accessible?“
And that’s exactly what this show is. To quote her again:
“You walk away with your heart being so warmed, and I imagine that maybe somebody is learning something, like next time they’ll put eggs in their batter that they forgot,” she added, contrasting it with the “overproduced major competition stuff,” which she said is “putting people in impossible to win situations, they’re giving them not enough ingredients, not enough time, not enough resources and asking for these big asks.”
✨ 13 Days of Holiday Reality TV ✨
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