An interesting aside: Ottolenghi, the owner of the restaurant where the lunch took place, is a fabulous Israeli chef, and I recommend both his cookbooks and his regular column in The Guardian. I don't know why FT didn't link to his column - competition? - but I read it almost as avidly as Hollinghurst's fiction itself. And it doesn't surprise me at all that Hollinghurst would eat there.
I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
An interesting aside: Ottolenghi, the owner of the restaurant where the lunch took place, is a fabulous Israeli chef, and I recommend both his cookbooks and his regular column in The Guardian. I don't know why FT didn't link to his column - competition? - but I read it almost as avidly as Hollinghurst's fiction itself. And it doesn't surprise me at all that Hollinghurst would eat there.
ReplyDeleteHere's the link to Ottolenghi's new series:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/series/yotam-ottolenghi-recipes
And his old one:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/series/thenewvegetarian