Sami Tamimi cookbook taster event

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Sami Tamimi brings the recipes from his latest book Boustanyto life in this demonstration event with wine & delicious tasters.

Whether you’re a longtime fan or new to Samis work, this is a rare chance to engage inan intimate conversation about food, memory, and identity, while enjoying delicious tasters straight from the pages of his newest creation.

Boustanytranslates from Arabic as ‘My Garden’, for Sami,

Growing up in Palestine, his garden was a vibrant, verdantspace filled with a variety of produce that his grandfathermeticulously tended to throughout the year. Thecombination of vegetables and herbs, and grains and pulses, were cleverly transformed intoplentiful, flavourful dishes, bringing family and community together.

The recipes and stories in Boustany, Samis first solo cookbook, reflect these roots, the way hegrew up eating, the dishes he goes back toover and over again, and the emotions andmemories they encapsulate. Delicious,colourfuland simple vegetable and grain-leddishes;from platters of aubergine and chickpeas with a spicy green lemon sauce and to fragrant lentil–fattehthat 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

Boustanywill be available for purchase and signing on the day of the event.

Sami Tamimiwas 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 becomehead chef of Lilith, one of the top restaurants in Tel Aviv in the 1990s.Sami moved to London in 1997 and worked at Baker & Spiceas head chef, where he set up a traiteur section with a richMiddle-Easternand Mediterranean spread. In 2002 hepartnered with Noam Bar and Yotam Ottolenghi to set upOttolenghi 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 25most influential cookbooks from the last 100 years. Samisthird bestselling cookbookFalastinis co-authored with TaraWigley and won the Fortnum & Mason Cookery Book of theYear 2021. Combined, he has sold over 1 million copies.