In a nutshell
Ottolenghi has founded a restaurant and four delis, has now penned four cookbooks, done an eight-year stint as Guardian Weekend’s columnist and – simply put – changed the way we shop and eat.
What does it cover?
Plenty More follows on from 2010’s Plenty, proving with brio that the potential of plant-based cooking is boundless – it’s a hefty tome of salads, bakes, stews and cakes, spreads, pies and pikelets.
What’s so special?
The focus this time round is on new techniques – from cracked to tossed, baked to simmered – that solve a dish and celebrate an ingredient.
Who would like it?
You might be tempted to think the obvious – that only veggies would. But Ottolenghi has the palate of a discerning omnivore and embraces so many flavours that it’s entirely possible everyone will...
Who wouldn’t like it?
Those for whom time in the kitchen is short and patience in the herbs and spice aisle is finite.
Best recipe?
A pan-full of the honey-roasted carrots with tahini yoghurt – sticky and thyme-flecked – is all you need for weekend eating. That is, until you reach the courgette baba ganoush.
Anything else?
Ottolenghi is a truly engaging writer, with each dish a story to be read, even if you can’t find everything you need to make it.
We say
Never before has the singleton veg been quite so dazzlingly the star of every plate.
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