Sami Tamimi cookbook taster event
Sami Tamimi brings the recipes from his latest book Boustany to life in this demonstration event with wine & delicious tasters.
Whether you’re a longtime fan or new to Sami’s work, this is a rare chance to engage in an intimate conversation about food, memory, and identity, while enjoying delicious tasters straight from the pages of his newest creation.
Boustany translates from Arabic as ‘My Garden’, for Sami,
Growing up in Palestine, his garden was a vibrant, verdant space filled with a variety of produce that his grandfather meticulously tended to throughout the year. The combination of vegetables and herbs, and grains and pulses, were cleverly transformed into plentiful, flavourful dishes, bringing family and community together.
The recipes and stories in Boustany, Sami’s first solo cookbook, reflect these roots, the way he grew up eating, the dishes he goes back to over and over again, and the emotions and memories they encapsulate. Delicious, colourful and simple vegetable and grain-led dishes; from platters of aubergine and chickpeas with a spicy green lemon sauce and to fragrant lentil – fatteh that always tasted better the next day!
What’s included:
- Refreshments on arrival and available throughout the session
- Tasters of the demonstrated dishes enjoy together as a class accompanied by a glass of wine or soft refreshments
- 10% discount on purchases made in store on the day of your class, including cookery classes. Excludes books, food, electrical items, gift vouchers and sale items
Boustany will be available for purchase and signing on the day of the event.
Sami Tamimi was born and raised in Jerusalem and was immersed in food from childhood.
He started his career as commis-chef in a Jerusalem hotel and worked his way up to become head chef of Lilith, one of the top restaurants in Tel Aviv in the 1990’s. Sami moved to London in 1997 and worked at Baker & Spice as head chef, where he set up a traiteur section with a rich Middle-Eastern and Mediterranean spread. In 2002 he partnered with Noam Bar and Yotam Ottolenghi to set up Ottolenghi in Notting Hill. Alongside Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi is co-author of two bestselling cookbooks: Ottolenghi: The Cookbook and Jerusalem: A Cookbook, which the New York Times recently named as one of the 25 most influential cookbooks from the last 100 years. Sami’s third bestselling cookbook Falastin is co-authored with Tara Wigley and won the Fortnum & Mason Cookery Book of the Year 2021. Combined, he has sold over 1 million copies.
