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Next instalment in Ottolenghi Test Kitchen series unveiled by PRH
Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced the second book in the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen series, following Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love (September 2021), also co-authored by Yotam Ottolenghi and Noor Murad.
Ebury publisher Lizzy Gray acquired world all-language rights from Felicity Rubinstein at Lutyens & Rubinstein Agency. US rights went to Aaron Wehner at Clarkson Potter (PRH) and Canadian rights to Robert McCullough at Appetite by Random House (PRH Canada), both via Kim Witherspoon at Inkwell.
In Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things, scheduled for publication in autumn 2022, Ottolenghi and Murad and the Test Kitchen team share “flexible, flavour-packed dishes that all lend a little something to the next meal”.
The publisher continues: “It’s harissa butter on a roasted mushroom, then tossed with steamed veg or stuffed into a baked potato. It’s smoky sweet nuts spooned onto oven fries, then used to top hummus the next day. Extra Good Things is rounded off with a chapter on the ‘one basics’ of desserts for you to perfect and then adapt with your favourite flavour combinations.”
Gray hailed the “deliciously flexible recipes, playful language and tactile format”, explaining that the latest instalment would show readers how to bring the “Ottolenghi factor” to any meal. Noor said; "[The book] unlocks all the secrets to building the Ottolenghi wardrobe via sauces, condiments, sprinkles and more.”
Ottolenghi, restaurateur, chef-patron of five Ottolenghi delis, as well as the NOPI and ROVI restaurants, added: “For me, cooking a meal is always an opportunity to load up my cupboards and fridge with delicious condiments: spicy, sharp, crunchy, funky. It’s what I call the sandwich-filling approach to cooking. You can never have too many flavourful things around to upgrade your next meal or just a simple snack. This book arms you with dozens of them, all prepared while you do your day-to-day cooking.”
Ottolenghi has also authored nine cookbooks including Simple and Flavour (Ebury), been a weekly columnist for the Saturday Guardian for over 15 years and is a regular contributor to the New York Times. According to UK TCM Nielsen Book Scan, he has sold 1.65 million books for £30.1m in total with Simple, his bestseller, on 367,520 copies. Murad is a Bahraini-born chef who has helped develop recipes with Ottolenghi since 2016.
