The New Yorker Festival: Otam Ottolenghi Talks with Jane Kramer

Yotam Ottolenghi is a chef, writer, and restaurateur. Born in Israel, he opened his first deli in the Notting Hill area of London, in 2002; since then, he has opened six cafés and restaurants and published several best-selling cookbooks, including “Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Cooking from London’s Ottolenghi” and “Jerusalem,” which he co-wrote with Sami Tamimi. “Sweet,” his sixth cookbook, will be published on October 3, 2017. “The Philosopher Chef,” Jane Kramer’s Profile of him, ran in the December 3, 2012, issue of the magazine.

Jane Kramer has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1964. Her book “Europeans,” from 1988, won Le Prix Européen de l’Essai Charles Veillon and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. Her article on multiculturalism and political correctness, “Whose Art Is It?,” won the 1993 National Magazine Award for feature writing and was expanded into a book in 1994. She has profiled the chefs Yotam Ottolenghi, Massimo Bottura, Jeffrey Alford, and Naomi Duguid for The New Yorker, and her collection of food essays, “The Reporter’s Kitchen,” will be published in November, 2017.

Tickets $59

Gramercy Theatre
127 E. 23rd St.











When: Sat., Oct. 7, 2017 at 1:00 pm

Yotam Ottolenghi is a chef, writer, and restaurateur. Born in Israel, he opened his first deli in the Notting Hill area of London, in 2002; since then, he has opened six cafés and restaurants and published several best-selling cookbooks, including “Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Cooking from London’s Ottolenghi” and “Jerusalem,” which he co-wrote with Sami Tamimi. “Sweet,” his sixth cookbook, will be published on October 3, 2017. “The Philosopher Chef,” Jane Kramer’s Profile of him, ran in the December 3, 2012, issue of the magazine.

Jane Kramer has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1964. Her book “Europeans,” from 1988, won Le Prix Européen de l’Essai Charles Veillon and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. Her article on multiculturalism and political correctness, “Whose Art Is It?,” won the 1993 National Magazine Award for feature writing and was expanded into a book in 1994. She has profiled the chefs Yotam Ottolenghi, Massimo Bottura, Jeffrey Alford, and Naomi Duguid for The New Yorker, and her collection of food essays, “The Reporter’s Kitchen,” will be published in November, 2017.

Tickets $59

Gramercy Theatre
127 E. 23rd St.

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