Canongate signs Samin Nosrat cookbook

• 16.04.13 | Joshua Farrington - The Bookseller 

Canongate has signed what it calls a “revolutionary” cookbook from American writer Samin Nosrat.

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: The Four Elements of Good Cooking shuns recipes in favour of guiding cooks to understand the science of their meals and follow their instincts.
Jenny Lord, senior editor at Canongate, bought UK and Commonwealth rights in a four-way auction from Felicity Blunt at Curtis Brown on behalf of Kari Stuart at ICM.

In the US, Nosrat met with 14 prospective publishers, with North American and translation rights ultimately acquired by Michael Szczerban at Simon & Schuster.
The book will be published in both territories in spring 2015.