The end of an Ottolenghi era

Yotam Ottolenghi is by far the most popular author in the EYB Library. The top three books by number of Bookshelves are his, and he has five of the top 10 books in the Library. If you look at individual recipes ranked by buzz, Ottolenghi again dominates. For the past seven years he has written a weekly column for The Guardian food supplement (now Feast and previously Cook), and we have indexed 1,105 of those recipes. That is an impressive figure and would be enough to tire anyone including the seemingly indefatigable Yotam Ottolenghi, who announced in the headnotes to the December 28 recipes that he would no longer be writing a weekly column.

There is no need to panic, however, as he isn’t leaving The Guardian Feast completely. Ottolenghi said that beginning in March, “I will be writing a new, long-form quarterly column packed with recipes, personal experiences and general observations about the food world, so stay tuned. The Feast community is the most engaged and greedy I know, so thank you!” We may have to wait longer in between new Ottolenghi recipes, but it sounds as though we will be rewarded with longer and more insightful pieces with this long-form format.