Yotam Ottolenghi (2024)

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Who is Yotam Ottolenghi's husband? ›

Karl Allen

Yotam Ottolenghi / Husband (m. 2012)

Some of the recipes are fairly straightforward but he does have a reputation for including some hard to get ingredients and some recipes can be very involved. I really enjoy his recipes and find they are very tasty.

It became a place with no single description but was a clear reflection of our obsessive relationship with food. From this, Ottolenghi has developed a style of food which is rooted in Middle Eastern and Mediterranean traditions, but which also draws in diverse influences and ingredients from around the world.

About the author

He is the author of ten best-selling cookery books which have garnered many awards, including the National Book Award for Ottolenghi SIMPLE which was also...

Ottolenghi met his partner Karl Allen in 2000; they married in 2012 and live in Camden, London, with their two sons, born in 2013 and 2015.

The guy's an omnivore but his recipes are overwhelmingly vegetarian and vegan. His vegetarian (not vegan) cookbook Plenty< spent years near the top of Britain's bestseller lists.

In 2002 the pair opened Ottolenghi, the famous delicatessen in Notting Hill, which became an instant hit for its use of unique flavour combinations and fantastic produce paired with Middle Eastern opulence.

While there are a handful of meat and fish dishes, the recipes are overwhelmingly vegetarian. The Ottolenghi approach to vegetables is where I think these books really shine, awarding an indulgence and satisfaction that can be missing in many plant-based dishes.

If anything, Mr. Ottolenghi — tall and dapper, with salt-and-pepper hair, half-rim glasses and a penchant for pink-striped button-downs and black sneakers — should be a vegetarian pinup. But here's the rub: he eats meat. Apparently this is enough to discredit him in the eyes of the most devout abstainers.

Who is the CEO of Ottolenghi? ›

The seven-strong restaurant group, Ottolenghi has appointed Emilio Foa as Group CEO, who brings over 20 years of experience at global high-end consumer brands.

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Ottolenghi entertains every second weekend at the London home he shares with his Northern Irish husband Karl Allen, a law graduate and former British Airways flight attendant, and a collector of vintage 1950s antiques, and their two sons.

NOPI marked a new venture for us: our first full-service restaurant. It's where our pantry expanded and we discovered new ways to create flavour. We serve lunch, pre theatre and dinner menus, with a low-intervention wine list and co*cktails that change according to house shrubs and seasonal spices.

Yotam Ottolenghi is a cookery writer and chef-patron of the Ottolenghi delis and NOPI restaurant and ROVI. He writes a weekly column in The Guardian's Feast Magazine and a monthly column in The New York Times.

His books have sold over 1.5 million copies in North America and 5 million worldwide. His next book, written with co-authors Helen Goh, Verena Lochmuller, and Tara Wigley, will be Ottolenghi Comfort (Ten Speed Press, October 8, 2024).