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17. Samin Nosrat Always Wanted to Be Famous

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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A Success Like Yours Creates This Parasocial Relationship

I've never read or heard anyone say anything other than wonderful. A success like yours, which is really large, does create this almost impossibly elevated expectation for what's next. I don't sense that your creative identity is so fragile that you won't produce another book. And when you go to the store right now, there are so many cookbooks where the person's face is on the cover. Yours is not.

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