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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A collection of over 110 recipes for sweets, baked goods, and confections from superstar chef Yotam Ottolenghi, thoroughly tested and updated.
Yotam Ottolenghi is widely beloved in the food world for his beautiful, inspirational, and award-winning cookbooks, as well as his London delis and fine dining restaurant. And while he's known for his savory and vegetarian dishes, he actually started out his cooking career as a pastry chef. Sweet is entirely filled with delicious baked goods, desserts, and confections starring Ottolenghi's signature flavor profiles and ingredients including fig, rose petal, saffron, orange blossom, star anise, pistachio, almond, cardamom, and cinnamon. A baker's dream, Sweet features simple treats such as Chocolate, Banana, and Pecan cookies and Rosemary Olive Oil Orange Cake, alongside recipes for showstopping confections such as Cinnamon Pavlova with Praline Cream and Fresh Figs and Flourless Chocolate Layer Cake with Coffee, Walnut, and Rosewater.
* Finalist for the 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Awards for "Baking and Desserts" and "Photography" categories
* Finalist for the 2018 International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Cookbook Award for "Baking" category
Author Notes
Yotam Ottolenghi was born on December 14, 1968 in Jerusalem. He is a British-based chef, cookery writer and restaurant owner. He started out as a writer working on the news desk of Haaretz, one of Israel¿s largest papers. In 1997 he moved to the UK planning to start a PhD, but before he enrolled he signed up to train at Le Cordon Bleu cookery school in London for six months. He got a job as head pastry chef at the London boutique bakery Baker & Spice and this is where he met Sami Tamimi and Dan Lepard.
Ottolenghi's cooking style is rooted in, but not confined to, his Middle Eastern upbringing: a distinctive mix of Middle Eastern flavours Syrian, Turkish, Lebanese, Iranian, and Israeli. His particular skill is in marrying the food of his native Israel with a wider range of textures and flavours from the Mediterranean, Middle East and Asia. Before turning to food and cooking, Ottolenghi was in both academia and journalism. He was a sub-editor on the news desk of Haaretz, Israel's oldest daily newspaper, and a student in Tel Aviv University.
Following a six-month course at the London-based French cookery school, Le Cordon Bleu, in 1997, Ottolenghi worked as a pastry chef at The Capital, the Michelin-starred restaurant in Knightsbridge. From there he moved to work in the pastry section of the Kensington Place restaurant and that of the sister restaurant, Launceston Place, for a year, under the chef Rowley Leigh. He eventually became head pastry chef at Baker and Spice in Chelsea, London, where he met Sami Tamimi co-founder of their delicatessens and restaurants and co-author of the Ottolenghi and Jerusalem cookery books in 1999. In 2015 his book Nopi: The Cookbook Ramael made The New Zealand Best Seller List. Ottolenghi Simple was published in September 2018.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
The latest from Ottolenghi (after Nopi), written with pastry chef and longtime collaborator Goh, displays the signature dishes that have earned the London restaurateur legions of fans and a monthly column in the New York Times: doughnuts filled with saffron custard and dusted with cardamom sugar; dark-chocolate brownies streaked with tahini and halva, which incorporate Middle Eastern ingredients used in new ways; and clever lemon layer cake with vertical stripes of blackcurrant puree and buttercream and a trio of cylindrical cakes baked in cans. In the preface, the authors brush off concerns about sugar and note that though gluten-free and nut-free recipes are marked for convenience, there was no purposeful attempt to include them. Many recipes include multiple parts, but thorough instructions and alternatives for the unusual pans sometimes called for make them accessible. The volume closes with thoughtful tips and notes on ingredients. A catch-all chapter includes such different delights as a barley pudding and a frozen parfait in the form of an oversize ice cream sandwich. Modern, creative, appealing, and, most importantly, fun-this is Ottolenghi at the top of his game. (Oct.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
Superstar chef-proprietor of five London restaurants and the author of four previous cookbooks, including Plenty More (2014) and, most recently, NOPI (2015), Ottolenghi, with Helen Goh, his colleague of more than 10 years, shares his first desserts-only collection. Recipe and section introductions refer to the authors' Sunday recipe-testing sessions (oh, to be invited to one of those!); call out their many international influences; and share credit with collaborators. Although the authors stress that baking, to them, means perfecting recipes to be the best versions of themselves and that any allergy-friendly recipes came to be so by accident only, they also happily note several gluten-free and nut-free options. The temptations are too many to list, but fans can expect Ottolenghified riffs on classics, like millionaire's shortbread flavored with halvah and tahini, pastry with polenta mixed in for crunch, and Cleopatra Cake, made with grapes and an entire bottle of wine. Ingredients are listed in both weight and volume, instructions are detailed and clear, and showstopping photos give meticulous home chefs something to aim for.--Bostrom, Annie Copyright 2017 Booklist
Library Journal Review
Nearly ten years since the UK release of Ottolenghi: The Cookbook, readers may be wondering whether Ottolenghi's cookbooks are still worth the hype. In the case of this elegantly understated baking guide, the answer is yes. Written with pastry chef and product developer Goh, the book brings together signature cookies, cakes, confections, tarts, and other desserts from Ottolenghi's eponymous restaurants. Recipes such as chocolate and peanut butter s'mores, apricot and amaretto cheesecake, chai brulee tarts, and yogurt panna cotta with basil and crushed strawberries look terrific on the page and produce consistently exquisite results. Some readers may balk at sourcing hard-to-find items such as passionfruit pulp, prickly pears, and speciality cake rings, but adventurous bakers will embrace the challenge. Plan to review the "baker's tips and notes" section, which contains important information about ingredients and techniques. VERDICT Expect demand for this much-anticipated title. © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
