Yotam Ottolenghi, "Simple"

Yotam Ottolenghi discusses his cookbook, "Simple", at a Politics and Prose event at Sixth and I on 10/21/18.

Yotam Ottolenghi’s award-winning recipes and restaurants have introduced happy cooks, bakers, and diners all over the US and UK to delicious new ingredients and flavor combinations. In Ottolenghi Simple, he gives us 130 recipes with just as much invention as the ones in Jerusalem, Plenty, and Plenty More—but less time. Every dish in Ottolenghi Simple can be cooked in 30 minutes, made in a single pot, or prepared entirely in advance, depending on what’s easiest for the reader. And just like any Ottolenghi recipe, the end result will blow you away. Ottolenghi is in conversation with Sally Swift, co-creator and managing producer of The Splendid Table.

YOTAM OTTOLENGHI is the author of the New York Times best-selling cookbooks Plenty, Ottolenghi, Plenty More, NOPI, Sweet, and Jerusalem, which was awarded Cookbook of the Year by the International Association of Culinary Professionals and Best International Cookbook by the James Beard Foundation. He lives in London, where he co-owns an eponymous group of restaurants and the fine-dining restaurant Nopi.

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