Experience the wonderful flavors of Ethiopia and Chef Yohanis' dazzling collection of recipes in this James Beard Award winning cookbook Winner James Beard Award for Best International Cookbooks 2020
Winner IACP Julia Child First Book Award for Best Cookbook 2020
Shortlisted Guild of Food Writers Award 2019
National Geographic Traveller Best New Cookbook
Ethiopia stands as a land apart: never colonized, it celebrates ancient traditions. The fascinatingly distinct cuisine is influenced by a history enriched with a religious mix of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as some of the most fertile land on the continent.
In this cookbook, Ethiopia's gourmet guru seeks to spread love for the country's cuisine. After working as a chef around the world, Yohanis Gebreyesus decided it was time to go home and put his skills to showing off what his home country has to offer. Now, he's dedicating his work to opening the world's eyes to Ethiopian cuisine.
The delicious dishes featured here include Doro Wat, chicken stewed with berbere spice, Siga Tibs, flashfried beef, and Asa Shorba, a hearty spiced fish soup, plus vegetarian dishes such as Gomen, collard greens with ginger and garlic, Azifa, green lentil salad, and Dinich Alicha, potatoes and carrots in an onion turmeric sauce.
Along with photography of the stunning landscapes and vibrant artisans of Ethiopia--combined with insightful cultural and historical details--this book demonstrates why Ethiopian food should be considered one of the world's most singular and enchanting cuisines.
Author Biography:
Yohanis Gebreyesus trained at the Paul Bocuse Institute in Lyon and worked as a chef in California, before returning to Addis Ababa to found his restaurant Antica and Chef Yohanis brand, which promotes a healthy lifestyle using Ethiopian produce. On EBS, Ethiopia's national television network (24 million viewers worldwide including its YouTube channel), Yohanis presents a weekly food program. Fluent in English, French, and Amharic, Yohanis has been featured in the Guardian and Le Monde. Peter Cassidy is an experienced food and lifestyle photographer based in london. Shooting advertising, packaging and editorial commissions both in the studio and on location, his clients include Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Asda, Dairy Crest, Baxter's, Tilda Bloomsbury, Quadrille Publishing, Kyle Books and RPS. He has also shot for Harrods Magazine, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Red, Food & Travel, Good Food, Olive and Delicious magazines. Peter has spent the last year doing a lot of travelling; he spent two months in the USA shooting the book that accompanies James Martin's 'American Adventure', and also shot a book in Ethiopia which will be published in October for Kyle Books as well as magazine features in Japan and Cape Verde. Meantime in the studio he shot the new book for Gunpowder restaurant in London, books for Scandi kitchen, Benito's hat and for Irish Grande Dame, Darina Allen. He has just finished photographing a fitness and lifestyle book with Olympic Legend Dame Kelly Holmes.
