Ellie's Table: Food From Memory and Food From Home - Hardcover

Bouhadana, Ellie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 174379875X ISBN 13: 9781743798751

Publisher: Hardie Grant Books, 2024

Synopsis

Ellie's Table is a recipe book rich with storytelling, exploring chef Ellie Bouhadana’s mixed Jewish background through food – from Morocco to the Mediterranean. <br /> <br /> In her debut cookbook, Ellie shares recipes picked up through her travels through Italy as well as ones that have been handed down from generation to generation. Part recipe book, part journal, Ellie’s Table is an extension of Ellie’s food ethos and includes all the recipes close to her heart. We find her in her safta’s kitchen sharing their family’s Rugelach recipe, we travel to Italy and Ellie tells us the secret to the perfect Fried Zucchini – a recipe with roots deep in Rome’s Jewish community – and Ellie recounts cooking Moroccan dishes as a child with her doda (aunt) Melani and her dad. There’s a whole chapter on her infamous Focaccia and all the accompanying butters.<br /> <br /> The chapters are structured in the same way that Ellie would serve her guests at a dinner party and invites her readers to do the same. We start with cold plates, then snacks, then the breads and whipped butters, followed by big plates, vegetables, pasta and finish with sweets.

This beautifully illustrated cookbook is intended to have a place on the kitchen bench or coffee table, and celebrates eating well, eating seasonally and eating together.

About this title

About the Author

Ellie Bouhadana is an acclaimed self-taught chef who honed her skills in events and restaurants in Melbourne, Australia. She gained popularity during the city’s two and a half years of lockdown by creating packages of fresh focaccia and handmade pasta, delivering them to 200 customers weekly. Ellie's success led her becoming the head chef at acclaimed Hope St Radio, a wine bar and radio station named by Timeout Magazine as the ‘third coolest bar in the world’. Her tenure as head chef solidified its reputation as a culinary destination, and led to multiple accolades celebrating the unique and vibrant experience Ellie has created for her guests. Inspired by her Moroccan and Eastern European Jewish heritage and her love of Mediterranean cuisine, her menu reflects her roots, passions and family traditions.

From the Back Cover

Ellie's Table is a recipe book rich with storytelling, exploring Chef Ellie Bouhadana's mixed Jewish background through food - from Morocco to Israel and through Eastern Europe.

In her first cookbook, Ellie shares recipes that she has learnt through her travels as well as ones that have been handed down from generation to generation, like her Moroccan grandmother's couscous, and her Polish grandmother's chicken soup. The chapters are structured in the same way that Ellie would serve her guests at a dinner party: starting with cold plates, then snacks, bread and whipped butters, big plates, vegetables, pasta and finishing with sweets. The dishes in this book are a celebration of the food Ellie was brought up with, including sentimental dishes that, until now, have only been kept in the hearts of her immigrant family members.

As you cook from these pages, your home will smell nostalgically of charred peppers and fresh garlic bathing in wine vinegars and good olive oil. Your kitchen will start filling up with jars of various sweet vinegars and oils and beautiful tinned fish, and you will be mopping up every plate with a good piece of bread.

Part journal, part history lesson - with so much heart - this book is so much more than just good food.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 174379875X
• ISBN 13: 9781743798751
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240