Yotam Ottolenghi and Toni Massanés feature in the upcoming session of Conversations at La Pedrera
Mon, 05/06/2019 - 15:33
On Monday, May 13, the Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation will welcome the chef and gastronome Yotam Ottolenghi, who will talk with the director of the Alícia Foundation, Toni Massanés, as part of Conversations at La Pedrera. The two gastronomes will talk about philosophy and creativity in cuisine, the Mediterranean diet, the concept of 'real food’ and flexitarianism, among other topics.
Yotam Ottolenghi (Jerusalem, 1968) came to the world of cooking in 1997 while he was working at an Israeli newspaper and pursuing a Master's in Philosophy and Literature. He decided to move to London, began as a pastry sous-chef at Capital Restaurant and then worked at restaurants like Kensington Place, Launceston Place, Maison Blanc and Baker & Spice. Years later, he created a chain of restaurants and food shops in Notting Hill, Islington, Belgravia and Kensington, all of them in London. In 2011, he opened his restaurant NOPI in Picadilly.
He is the author of books like ‘Plenty’, ‘Jerusalem: A Cookbook’, ‘Plenty More: Vibrant Vegetable Cooking from London's Ottolenghi’, ‘Sweet’ and ‘Ottolenghi Simple’. He contributes to The Guardian newspaper and TV programmes, which have enshrined him as one of the great chefs and popularisers of cooking.
Toni Massanés (Berga, 1965), the director of the Alícia Foundation and a researcher at the UB's Food Observatory, designed the method and supervises the research to inventory the Traditional Catalan Culinary Corpus. He has won the City of Barcelona Award and the Juan Mari Arzak Award for Gastronomy and Media. He writes for Cuina and Comer in La Vanguardia, and contributes to Un Restaurant Caníbal a Berlín on Catalunya Ràdio, among others.
Language of the conversation: English (with simultaneous translation)
The Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation promotes cultural activities that foster the arts and thinking and seek to reflect for a fairer society.
With Conversations at La Pedrera, the Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation seeks to stimulate critical thinking by giving a voice to world-class intellectuals from different fields of culture, society or science and sharing their career and vision of today's world.
This is the eighth edition of the series, which has been held since 2011 in conjunction with Arcàdia. Personalities the likes of Zygmunt Bauman, Yasmina Reza, Tom Wolfe, John Eliot Gardiner, Zadie Smith, Evgeny Morozov and John Lanchester have participated in Conversations at La Pedrera.
