Stock Up Your Pantry Like Samin Nosrat

April 15, 2020 Admin 0 Comments

The Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat author walks us through her kitchen staple products

Samin Nosrat — cookbook author, instructor, and star of Netflix’s documentary series Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, inspired by her smash-hit cookbook of the same name — might have gotten her start at the legendary Chez Panisse. But anyone who’s watched her show or listened to her new Home Cooking podcast with co-host Hrishikesh Hirway, knows Nosrat is warm and inviting and exudes down-to-earth vibes.

Her pantry is no different: Nosrat’s many cabinets and drawers in her California home are bursting with plenty of familiar food products. (Her freezer, for what it’s worth, is apparently 99% chicken stock. “My main hoarding urge was to make chicken stock,” she said, describing her coronavirus experience.)

Nosrat offered up a tour of her pantry over Instagram Live, as part of the Eater @ Home virtual event series. “Right now, it’s this wonderful moment where we’re all getting a peek into each other’s homes,” she said. Here are a few of her favorite staples:

• Trader Joe’s Banana Chips (“These were the first things I bought, inexplicably, when I first grocery-shopped when everyone was panic-buying food.”)
• Ancient Organics Ghee
• Spices from Diaspora Co. and Oaktown Spice Shop
• Hime J-Basket Dried Buckwheat Soba Noodles currently sold out (“I’ve been eating a lot of non-pasta noodles lately, like soba.”)
• Blank Slate Kitchen Sichuan Chili Oil
• Bragg Premium Nutritional Yeast Seasoning (“For all the popcorn.”)
• Seka Hills Olive Oil (“This is my favorite everyday olive oil for... It’s not super expensive, and I get it in a big three-liter box.”)
• L’Escala Anchovies (“These are from Spain — I get them from Beaune Imports, based in Berkeley.”)
• Fly By Jing Sichuan Chili Crisp

In addition to cooking right now, Nosrat is giving back. Her suggestion for where to give right now: your local food bank or school districts, so that children who rely on school meals can eat right now, as well as No Kid Hungry.

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