Feelings of 'I'm not good enough'

Samin Nosrat talks about finding joy again and her place in the world

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Samin Nosrat

American-Iranian chef and cookery writer Samin Nosrat may have been catapulted to culinary fame with her debut cookbook Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat - and a hit Netflix series by the same name - but success sent her spiralling.

"That thing that I'd been single-mindedly chasing basically my whole life, I found it, I got it, and still had that loneliness inside, that feeling of 'it's not good enough, I'm not good enough'," shares the 45-year-old.

The 2017 publication, which flipped the script on traditional recipes and taught home cooks how not to rely on them, and instead cook more instinctively, is somewhat considered a modern classic.

But the experience "was actually really destabilising and sent me into a big depression", says Nosrat.