RESOURCES
Here are sources for some of our favorite things. We’ll keep updating this page as we think of more to share with you! Happy cooking!
Spices
Oaktown Spice Shop
Beans and More
Rancho Gordo
Delicious Pasta (and more!)
Gustiamo
Olive Oil
Seka Hills
Vinegars
Katz Artisan Vinegars
Tinned Fish (and more!)
The Spanish Table
Soy Sauce
Ohsawa Nama Shoyu
Extraordinary Japanese Pantry Items
The Japanese Pantry
Extraordinary Mexican Pantry Items
Alma Semillera
Chili Crisps of all Ilks
Fly By Jing
Sonoma Harvest Crunchy Onion Kick
Non Crispy Chilis and Hot Sauces
Calabrian Chili Paste
Also good to have
Coconut Milk
Coconut Oil
Curry Pastes (Samin likes these and these)
Better than Bouillon Vegetable Base
Better than Bouillon Chicken Base
Baking Ingredients
King Arthur Flour
Central Milling Flour
(Type 70 is Samin’s favorite bread flour)
Grains
Bartolini Italian Farro
Canned Tomatoes
Bianco Dinapoli
Chocolate (for baking and eating)
Guittard Baking Wafers
Other Random Things we’re just strangely obsessed with
German Sweet Mustard
Hrishi’s Favorite Cookie in LA (Mocha Chip Cookie with Sea Salt)
Giving Back
Feeding America
Inspiring and Educational Cookbooks
Salt Fat Acid Heat, by Samin Nosrat
Good Things, by Samin Nosrat
Black Food, by Bryant Terry
Cool Beans, by Joe Yonan
An Everlasting Meal, by Tamar Adler
Small Victories, by Julia Turshen
BraveTart, by Stella Parks
Maangchi's Big Book of Korean Cooking, by Maangchi
Josey Baker Bread, by Josey Baker
Vietnamese Food Any Day, by Andrea Nguyen
Indian-ish, by Priya Krishna
Joy of Cooking, by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker, John Becker, and Megan Scott
Cooking and Screaming, by Adrienne Kane
The Art of Fermentation, by Sandor Katz
Season, by Nik Sharma
Baking at the 20th Century Cafe, by Michelle Polzine
Fermentation as Metaphor, by Sandor Katz
BakeWise, by Shirley Corriher
Coconut & Sambal, by Lara Lee
Bread Baking Resources
@joseybakerbread
@jenniferlatham, Head of Bread at Tartine Bakery
Tara Jensen (@bakerhands), who is constantly doling out useful information
Jim Lahey’s Original No-Knead Bread Recipe
Kenji López-Alt's No-Knead Bread Recipe
Food Safety
Food Safety and Coronavirus: A Comprehensive Guide
Samin’s Ancient, Exhaustive Guide to Knives
If you don’t feel like reading through all of that:
Totally good options that are great for the average home cook (what Samin and most of her chef friends use or used for many years):
If you want some cuter or more aesthetically pleasing knives, check out these, these, or these. And if you want some really fancy-schmancy knives, shop here and here.
Other useful kitchen equipment
Flour sack dish towels