Overview

• Random House published Good Things this week, and Nosrat is promoting the book in New York, including at a celebratory dinner with food‑world figures.
• The book pairs fully tested recipes with reflective essays influenced by writers such as Raymond Carver, Annie Dillard, and Iris Murdoch.
• Recipes emphasize relaxed, host‑first gatherings with low pretension and easy mixing and mingling, including staples like dressings, meatballs, focaccia, and chocolate cake.
• Nosrat says she set firmer boundaries and made her life smaller to manage the pressures that followed Salt Fat Acid Heat and her Netflix series.
• Her volunteer work at a nearby high school for recent immigrants and refugees and memories of her Iranian family inform the book’s perspective.