Saturday, April 4, 2009

Article: Ottolenghi café’s smiling food




















The FT's Nicholas Lander writes about an Israeli journalist-and-academic-turned chef who serves up "smiling food" to diners at Ottolenghi, his chain of London-based cafés.

Ottolenghi worked in academia and as a journalist before coming to London in 1998, aged 30, to train at Le Cordon Bleu institute. He had wanted to become a chef at an early age, but it was not a profession that was looked on with enthusiasm by his middle-class parents. His success has won his parents round, but Ottolenghi says his father cooks with a deftness he feels he can’t match. “He’s a professor of chemistry and somehow he has this intuitive understanding of what should be in a dish and what shouldn’t. That’s what I want to achieve.”

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