With Netflix Show ‘Salt Fat Acid Heat,’ the Food TV Renaissance Continues

With Netflix Show ‘Salt Fat Acid Heat,’ the Food TV Renaissance Continues

Samin Nosrat begins the final episode of Salt Fat Acid Heat with an apt metaphor: “Heat is the element of transformation.” Nosrat, a chef and author, is calling attention to one of cooking’s essential tenets—but also, slyly enough, to a new movement of food shows on Netflix and elsewhere that spurn the pallid and passé …