Review
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"With Jerusalem and all the books that followed, Yotam
Ottolenghi changed everything about what we cook and crave. Now,
with Sweet, he and Helen Goh shake up dessert. In signature
style, the recipes are generous, warm, inviting, and copiously
sparked with inspiration. Yes, bake those brownies with tahini
and halva. Add star anise to blackberry cakes. Revel in the
exciting new flavors Sweet brings us. It's what I'll be doing."
--Dorie Greenspan, James Beard Award-winning author
"After winning us over with his savory offerings, Yotam
Ottolenghi, with Helen Goh, comes to the sweet side with an
international array of gorgeous cookies, cakes, candies,
custards... I want to make everything in this luscious book!"
--David Lebovitz, author of My Paris Kitchen and L'Appart
"Yotam Ottolenghi's additions to classic recipes make so much
sense, you'll wonder why you've never stirred tahini into
brownies or orange flower water into amaretti--or why you've
never even made your own amaretti! This is my kind of baking
book; you'll want to make everything."
--Elisabeth Prueitt, co-founder of Tartine Manufactory and author
of Tartine All Day
"Modern, creative, appealing, and, most importantly, fun--this is
Ottolenghi at the top of his game."
--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Praise for previous books:
"This is simply wonderful cooking...modern, smart, and
thoughtful. I love it."
--Nigel Slater
"With his 2012 cookbook Jerusalem, London restaurateur Yotam
Ottolenghi [has] created a sensation by sharing his unexpected
and highly personal take on Mediterranean cooking."
--Food & Wine
"Jerusalem is the top-selling cookbook in the country, subverting
the conventional wisdom that you need to have a TV show to have a
bestselling cookbook. The book...has become something of a
phenomenon."
--Publisher's Weekly
"Plenty...is among the most generous and luxurious nonmeat
cookbooks ever produced, one that instantly reminds us that you
don't need meat to produce over-the-top food."
--Mark Bittman, New York Times
"Yotam Ottolenghi's second cookbook has recipes for dishes
largely absent from the American kitchen--a fact that almost
never crosses your mind when you flip through it hungry.
Everything sounds mouthwatering and looks-and is -doable."
--Wall Street Journal
From the Inside Flap
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'There's nothing like a perfectly light sponge flavoured with
spices and citrus or an icing-sugar-dusted cookie to raise the
spirits and create a moment of pure joy.'
In his stunning new baking and desserts cookbook Yotam Ottolenghi
and his long-time collaborator Helen Goh bring the Ottolenghi
hallmarks of fresh, evocative ingredients, exotic spices and
complex flavourings - including fig, rose petal, saffron,
aniseed, orange blossom, pistachio and cardamom - to indulgent
cakes, biscuits, tarts, puddings, cheesecakes and ice cream.
Sweet includes over 110 innovative recipes, from Blackberry and
Star Anise Friands, Tahini and Halva Brownies, Persian Love
Cakes, Middle Eastern Millionaire's Shortbread, and Saffron,
Orange and Honey Madeleines to Flourless Chocolate Layer Cake
with Coffee, Walnut and Rosewater and Cinnamon Pavlova with
Praline Cream and Fresh Figs.
There is something here to delight everyone - from simple
mini-cakes and cookies that parents can make with their children
to showstopping layer cakes and roulades that will reignite the
imaginations of accomplished bakers.