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Samin Nosrat's second cookbook, Good Things: Recipes to Share with People You Love, comes out on Sept. 16, and she will be appearing at Toronto's Massey Hall on Sept. 27 to discuss it.

Samin Nosrat became a household name when her best-selling 2017 cookbook, Salt Fat Acid Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking , was adapted into a Netflix docuseries in 2018. But deep down inside, fame left her feeling lonely and empty.

“It was just really destabilizing,” says Nosrat from her home in Oakland, Calif. “Sometimes, you just want to be out in the world in your dirty sweats, drinking a smoothie, you know? I’ve lost that, so there’s a kind of armour I have to put on to leave my house now.”

After the passing of her father, and subsequent grief and depression, the Iranian-A

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