Sunday, September 16 – 6:00pm

Our cookbook for September was Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat. Actually, it’s probably more accurate to say that it’s a book about cooking rather than what we’d traditionally call a cookbook, as there aren’t even any recipes until you get to the second half of the book. The first half teaches you how to cook by mastering four essential elements – Salt to enhance flavor, Fat to deliver flavor and generate texture, Acid to balance flavor, and Heat which determines texture. It is the first cookbook (in over 2 years of Cookbook Club!) that I have actually read from beginning to end, rather than just perusing recipe titles. (more…)