Omelette
Food, Love, Chaos and Other Conversations
by Jessie Ware
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Pub Date 10 Jun 2021 | Archive Date 10 Jun 2021
Hodder & Stoughton | Hodder Studio
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Description
Sunday Telegraph's FIVE BEST BOOKS FOR FOODIES this Christmas - 'a must read... packed full of nostalgic food memories, weaving in family, friendship and love.'
"Are you hungry darling, shall I make you an omelette?"
My mother's omelettes are slightly overdone but always generous in cheese and well-seasoned. My omelettes are just the same, though more often slightly underdone and less carefully considered. And like my stories, they come in many forms. You might get one late at night, after a little too much wine and alongside a little too much information. I might spend a long time on one that's just a touch extravagant. And many are for the people I care about most, thrown together and with more cheese than is strictly necessary.
Collected here are things I've done, things I've seen, things I've thought, and most importantly, things I've tasted. They're slices of parts of my life. Call them omelettes, if you like. I hope you enjoy them.
'Jessie's life seems to have seamlessly brought her forth on a magic carpet of food, peppered by lots and lots of laughs. Her stories are a joy to read, although probably not as much fun as they are to live. Deliciously entertaining'. - Yotam Ottolenghi
'Gobbled this up in 90 minutes. A dreamy food memoir which is stuffed full of warmth and feeling and fun. If you love Table Manners you'll adore this book by Jessie Ware. Now I'm gagging for some hot buttered toast.' - Bella Mackie
'Love it, laughed cried in parts.... I so enjoyed reading about Jessie's life through food .... Childbirth and Bolognese forever imprinted on my mind.' - Angela Hartnett
'Joie de vivre is the bass note throughout the pages of Omelette' - Harper's Bazaar
'A delicious fusion of memoir and ode to food.' - Grazia
'A charming and funny memoir ... you want to eat everything she describes' - Daily Mail
'A must read' - Stella Magazine
'A great one for foodies who live for nostalgia' - GQ
'A charming and funny memoir' - Irish Daily Mail
'A love letter to friends, first loves, faith and family, but most importantly - to food' - Reaction
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781529355857 |
| PRICE | £12.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 160 |
Featured Reviews
Katie Y, Reviewer
Really, really enjoyed this book. It’s really a memoir told through food. From white bread enjoyed with a schoolfriend to the perfect spaghetti bolognese, that first G&T on a plane to a home-cooked Omelette. I love the way Jessie weaves in memories of family, falling in love, friendship and travel with some of her most memorable meals. It made me nostalgic and thinking of my own food memories from years gone by. I really love the Table Manners podcast Jessie and her mum Lennie have created and this book feels like an extension of that. A wonderful, nostalgic read. Thank you NetGalley and Hodder Studio for the opportunity to review.
Rachael N, Reviewer
Thank you to NetGalley for the e-ARC. I absolutely adored this book, it's warm and witty, made me very hungry(!) and reminded me why there is more to food that eating. A must read for fans of Jessie Ware, or listeners of The Table Manners podcast!
Nic J, Reviewer
Omelette is, by Jessie Ware’s own admission, a reluctant ‘foodoir’ (a memoir about food memories). It is however so much more than a book about food. It is a sparky, warm and throughly engaging set of vignettes which are loosely bound together by meals and ingredients, but more richly united with the family and friends who appear.
The recollections are diverse. From spag-bol to her father-in-laws recipe, to dinner (with copious amounts of Whispering Angel) at Chateau Marmont with an old temping pal (now mega selling author) and back via M&S curry at her grandmas. The book is perceptive and the prose flows easily. It feels a little like Grace Dent’s fantastic Hungry but based in the 90s (rather than the 70s) and a lot more middle-class.
Full of anecdotes and with plenty of nods to the wider Ware family that will thrill fans of Jessie’s podcast Table Manners. This is a thoroughly enjoyable read.
Thanks to Hodder Books and Netgalley for the advance copy.
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