Ottolenghi: Cookbook

"Cooking can be enjoyable, simple and fulfilling, and yet the result can look and taste wonderful. Cooking must not be an unpleasant job or boring, it can be accessible to everyone, clear and honest. For us, cooking and eating is not a nebulous, distant ideal, but a part of everyday life, and it must remain so."

Did you get the urge to cook something new, good, unusual? Just flip through the second edition of Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi's first cookbook and take your pick. The book contains approximately 150 recipes for preparing interesting dishes, divided into four chapters: Vegetables, legumes and cereals, Meat and fish, Baking and sweets, Pantry. You'll find everything from a variety of meats to sumptuous salads to breads and cakes - imaginative yet uncomplicated dishes drawn from many culinary traditions from the Middle East to North Africa, Italy and California. Each recipe breathes the hallmarks of Ottolenghi's cooking: generous gestures, inventive flavors, intense colors and a wide variety of special ingredients.