Becky Selengut is my new food-person-crush because she has written my new favorite food book! How to Taste isn’t a cook book exactly, but it is definitely a food book. The book is organized into chapters about the six tastes (salt, acid, sweet, fat, bitter, umami) plus aromatics, bite, texture and “everything else”. With witty writing, serious research, taste experiments you can do at home, and a few choice recipes, each chapter is designed to help the reader figure out for themselves literally how to taste and thereby become a better cook.

In this interview, we laugh a lot and also cover the super powers of salt, the best way to smell stuff, how salt can even make things smell more, and theorize about why butter is better to prevent sticking. We commiserate about our anxious dogs and the annoying trend of restaurants denying us salt shakers at the table. Go buy Becky’s new book! Do it! You will love it! (She has also written several other books that are also fantastic, such as Good Fish!)

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Show Notes at https://hilahcooking.com/how-to-taste-with-becky-selengut/