Ottolenghi: The Cookbook.
London: Ebury Press, 2008.
Quarto (28.5 x 19 cm.), 288 pages. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Index. FIRST EDITION. The first of the nine cookbooks that made Yotam Ottolenghi's mouthful of a name into a household word, at least in households that like to cook. The book's inventive yet simple dishes are inspired by the childhoods of Sami and his business partner Sami Tamimi in West and East Jerusalem respectively, and based on culinary traditions from North Africa, Lebanon, Italy and California. While Ottolenghi's bestselling cookbooks have become recognized for their striking designs and "puffy" cover materials, this first book sported a sleeker, non-puffy binding and exciting typographical treatments that have not been equaled in the later books. A bit of toning to the bottom edge of the glossy white binding. In an unclipped dust jacket. Near fine. Signed in ink by both authors on the red free front endpaper. A very nice signed copy of one of Rabelais' favorite cookbooks.
Price: $100.00