Saturday, 19 April 2008

The Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi

The Cookbook by Yotam Ottolengnhi and Sami Tamimi is released next month (On the 1st May according to Amazon.)

You can pre-order the book from Amazon for the price of £16.50 which is cheaper than anywhere else I've seen.



Ottolenghi's culinary mini empire is based in the posher parts of London. There are three delis in Belgravia, Kensington and Notting Hill (two of which offer a limited service as a cafe) and there is a restaurant in Islington which the Observer rated as being one of the best places in London to get breakfast. The food seems to be mostly drawn from east Mediterranean cuisine (both authors are from Jerusalem) but is also open to drawing on other region's cuisines. Finally, and I'm never really sure how important this is in cookbooks, the design looks really lovely. (You can see some of the page layouts at Amazon)