Ottolenghi: The Cookbook

Overview

Brand-new, cutting-edge cookbook from one of London's most popular and stylish deli-restaurants.

Ottolenghi is one of the most iconic and dynamic restaurants in existence. Its unique blend of exquisite, fresh food, abundantly presented in a cutting-edge, elegant environment, has imaginatively redefined people's dining expectations. For the first time, Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi are publishing here their superb sweet and savory recipes. Yotam and Sami’s inventive yet simple dishes are inspired by their respective childhoods in West and East Jerusalem but rest on numerous other culinary traditions, ranging from North Africa to Lebanon, and Italy to California. The 140 original recipes cover everything from accomplished meat and fish main courses through to many healthy and quick salads and suppers, plus Ottolenghi's famous and delectable cakes and breads. Ottolenghi: The Cookbook captures the zeitgeist for honest, healthy, bold cooking presented with flair, style, and substance. This painstakingly designed, lavishly photographed book offers the timeless qualities of a cookery classic.

Reviews

"The stage is set for a new era of simple pleasure . . . The philosophy of serving food that is not industrialized is a joy to behold . . . [There is] beauty in the composition of salads and other dishes, integrity in the baking, seduction in the desserts, and the white noise of serene, convivial surroundings." —Evening Standard

"Gorgeous, healthy recipes . . . a wonderful book." —Sunday Times

"Ottolenghi is one of those places that has creatively redefined what we expect of eating out." —Good Food Guide 2006

"They have a perfectly judged sense of what people actually feel like eating." —Financial Times

"Britain's most eagerly awaited cookbook." —Guardian

"A foodie's eye candy with recipes to match." —Beach

Author Biography

Yotam Ottolenghi has worked as a pastry chef at the Capital, Kensington Place, and Launceston Place. He's also worked for Maison Blanc and then Baker and Spice before starting his own group of restaurants. Sami Tamimi has been a chef for more than two decades and teamed up with Yotam to open Ottolenghi in 2002.