"Salt Fat Acid Heat" stars an Iranian-American woman as its host

Netflix's newest food show, "Salt Fat Acid Heat," stars an Iranian-American woman as its host. Samin Nosrat is giving a new face to the male-dominated TV genre that is food and travel programs.

The premise of the show is that salt, fat, acid and heat are the four elements that make food delicious around the world. Nosrat sets out to travel and eat her way around the world because, as she says in the show's trailer, "good cooking is universal."

When I think about my favorite food and travel shows, I can only come up with ones that star men as their hosts, such as "Parts Unknown" with Anthony Bourdain and "Diners' Drive-Ins and Dives" with Guy Fieri. 

Many are catching on to this as well. "...And it doesn’t look anything like those shows, which are usually full of brash men eating organ meats and throwing back beers, either," the Washington Post noted.

The trailer shows Nosrat eating and enjoying food, something that women are not often shown doing by the media. She is unapologetic in her eating, sometimes filling her mouth with too much food, sometimes closing her eyes in pure bliss. Above all, Nosrat proves that not all travel and food shows have to star men, and in fact, they shouldn't.