Your Cranberry Sauce Is Missing 2 Things, According to Samin Nosrat!

Samin Nosrat’s cooking advice is all about balance.

As the author of the James Beard Award-winning and New York Times best-selling cookbook “Salt Fat Acid Heat” and host of the Netflix series by the same name, Nosrat has blessed many of us with a better understanding of how to manipulate and combine the fundamental flavors of food. So when she gives advice on how to improve a Thanksgiving spread, I am all ears.

This week on the popular cooking and recipe development-focused podcast “The Recipe with Kenji and Deb,” its eponymous hosts, J. Kenji López-Alt and Deb Perelman, decided to take a break from recording and instead re-aired an episode of one of my all-time favorite podcasts, “Home Cooking” from Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway. First recorded in November of 2020, the episode is as relevant today as it was then because she’s diving into listeners’ common Thanksgiving conundrums — including three easy strategies for improving cranberry sauce.

Here are the takeaways.

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