Yotam Ottolenghi’s Butternut Squash With Ginger Tomatoes and Lime Yogurt

The unerring palate of Yotam Ottolenghi scores again! In his newest book, “NOPI: The Cookbook,” the great chef, along with NOPI’s executive chef, Ramael Scully, shares 120 flavor-bomb recipes from his newest London restaurant, NOPI, where Scully’s Malaysian heritage informs many of the flavors. It’s a veritable Middle Eastern-Mediterranean-Asian mash-up of deliciousness. As with Ottolenghi’s […]

A Conversation With Chef Yotam Ottolenghi of London’s NOPI

The cookbooks of Yotam Ottolenghi are magic. When you make his recipes, you are instantly transported to a different place, filled with color and light, vibrant flavors and intoxicating aromas. It’s a veritable carnival of the senses. The best-selling author of five cookbooks (“Ottolenghi: The Cookbook,” “Plenty,” “Jerusalem,” “Plenty More,” and “NOPI: The Cookbook”) comes […]

The Best New Cookbooks of 2015

Every year, when it comes time to compile my annual list of favorite cookbooks, I ask myself the same questions: What makes a cookbook compulsively readable? Why do some cookbooks – even those without the Food Network imprimatur – become bestsellers, while others languish on the shelves? Most importantly, which new cookbooks can I not […]