# How I Built Resilience: Live with Samin Nosrat and Alice Waters & Fanny Singer

- Show: [How I Built This](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/how-i-built-this)
- Published: 2020-05-14
- Length: 26m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/how-i-built-this/2020-05-14-how-i-built-resilience-live-with-samin-nosrat-and-alice-waters-fanny-singer

## Summary

Chef Samin Nosrat discusses how her cookbook 'Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat' inadvertently became a guide for quarantine cooking, emphasizing improvisation and ingredient substitution over strict recipes. Alice Waters, founder of Chez Panisse, and her daughter Fanny Singer discuss the restaurant's closure, their efforts to support local farmers by buying surplus produce for public schools, and the resurgence of victory gardens. The episode highlights the shift in consumer behavior towards home cooking, the importance of community resource sharing, and the psychological benefits of constraint in creativity.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/how-i-built-this/2020-05-14-how-i-built-resilience-live-with-samin-nosrat-and-alice-waters-fanny-singer#t=0) Introduction: Samin Nosrat on Quarantine Cooking
- [1:33](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/how-i-built-this/2020-05-14-how-i-built-resilience-live-with-samin-nosrat-and-alice-waters-fanny-singer#t=93) Samin Nosrat: Improvisation and Substitution
- [6:28](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/how-i-built-this/2020-05-14-how-i-built-resilience-live-with-samin-nosrat-and-alice-waters-fanny-singer#t=388) Samin Nosrat: Sourdough, Cabbage, and Salmon
- [13:15](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/how-i-built-this/2020-05-14-how-i-built-resilience-live-with-samin-nosrat-and-alice-waters-fanny-singer#t=795) Samin Nosrat: The Power of Constraint
- [17:06](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/how-i-built-this/2020-05-14-how-i-built-resilience-live-with-samin-nosrat-and-alice-waters-fanny-singer#t=1026) Alice Waters and Fanny Singer: Chez Panisse and Local Farmers
- [21:03](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/how-i-built-this/2020-05-14-how-i-built-resilience-live-with-samin-nosrat-and-alice-waters-fanny-singer#t=1263) Growing Victory Gardens and Supporting Farmers
- [24:01](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/how-i-built-this/2020-05-14-how-i-built-resilience-live-with-samin-nosrat-and-alice-waters-fanny-singer#t=1441) Finding Comfort in Home Cooking

## Topics

- [Validation & product-market fit](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/validation-and-product-market-fit)
- [Scaling production](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/scaling-production)
- [Marketing & brand](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/marketing-and-brand)
- [Sourcing & supply chain](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/sourcing-and-supply-chain)

## Most relevant to

established companies

## Mentioned

- Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat (product)
- Chez Panisse (company)
- U.S. Bank (company)
- Trader Joe's (company)
- Always Home (product)

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