Ottolenghi is one of the most iconic and dynamic restaurants in the country. 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 savoury 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, Italy and 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 recipe book offers the timeless qualities of a cookery classic.

What the critics say...

Gorgeous, healthy recipes...a wonderful book.
Sunday Times' Culture

They have a perfectly judged sense of what people actually feel like eating.
Fuchsia DunlopFinancial Times

Set to be the al fresco bible for summer
ES Magazine

Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi...are purveyors of some of the city's most beautiful food. In this sleek, good-looking volume they spill the beans on some of their best known dishes. It's very modern, very metropolitan... in the vein of the River Cafe and Moro books - and we suspect it will be just as popular with London farmer's market shoppers this summer
Time Out

My favourite book this year.
Review

Britain's most eagerly awaited cookbook
The Guardian

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
Fay MaschlerThe Evening Standard

There's something irresistibly beautiful about the food at Ottolenghi and the book to accompany the cafes is as seductive: vivid flavours, bright colours and smart, simple ideas for food that mixes middle eastern and Italianate tastes.
Nigella LawsonDelicious

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

...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...
Fay MaschlerEvening Standard