Home Cooking

Home Cooking started in the early pandemic as a four-episode emergency broadcast for people suddenly stuck feeding themselves three meals a day, and it was such a hit that Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway kept coming back for more seasons. Samin is the Salt Fat Acid Heat author who became a household name after her Netflix show, and Hrishikesh runs Song Exploder, which tells you something about his ability to draw out how a thing is actually put together. The format is loose and listener-driven. People write in with pantry problems, dinner-for-one dilemmas, how-do-I-salvage-this questions, and the two of them work through answers in a way that feels more like eavesdropping on friends than consulting an expert. Samin does most of the culinary heavy lifting, rattling off substitutions and technique fixes with the confidence of someone who has cooked for a living, while Hrishikesh plays the curious home cook asking the follow-ups. Guests drop in periodically, usually writers or musicians with strong feelings about a specific ingredient. New seasons arrive sporadically rather than weekly, so catching up on the back catalog is part of the experience.