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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
What a book… or as she says Foodoir…!!!
If you are a fan of her podcast Table Manners this is the void for you; a little glimpse inside Jessie life and relationships worth food. And we agree in one thing both we live to eat; we do not eat to live.
If you are a fan of her podcast Table Manners this is the void for you; a little glimpse inside Jessie life and relationships worth food. And we agree in one thing both we live to eat; we do not eat to live.
lighthearted
reflective
adventurous
funny
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
Omelette is, by Jessie Ware’s own admission, a reluctant ‘foodoir’ (a memoir about food memories). It is however so much more than a book about food. It is a sparky, warm and throughly engaging set of vignettes which are loosely bound together by meals and ingredients, but more richly united with the family and friends who appear.
The recollections are diverse. From spag-bol to her father-in-laws recipe, to dinner (with copious amounts of Whispering Angel) at Chateau Marmont with an old temping pal (now mega selling author) and back via M&S curry at her grandmas. The book is perceptive and the prose flows easily. It feels a little like Grace Dent’s fantastic Hungry but based in the 90s (rather than the 70s) and a lot more middle-class.
Full of anecdotes and with plenty of nods to the wider Ware family that will thrill fans of Jessie’s podcast Table Manners. This is a thoroughly enjoyable read.
Thanks to Hodder Books and Netgalley for the advance copy.
The recollections are diverse. From spag-bol to her father-in-laws recipe, to dinner (with copious amounts of Whispering Angel) at Chateau Marmont with an old temping pal (now mega selling author) and back via M&S curry at her grandmas. The book is perceptive and the prose flows easily. It feels a little like Grace Dent’s fantastic Hungry but based in the 90s (rather than the 70s) and a lot more middle-class.
Full of anecdotes and with plenty of nods to the wider Ware family that will thrill fans of Jessie’s podcast Table Manners. This is a thoroughly enjoyable read.
Thanks to Hodder Books and Netgalley for the advance copy.
Ingredients for a successful food memoir:
Memories with family, friends by food
Delicious descriptions of food
Sprinkled with sparkling and joyful writing
To be left to simmer and soak up all of the flavours and emotions.
Finally, to be enjoyed with a sparkling and loving writing voice.
Combining the above will leave you with Omelette, written by Jessie Ware, songwriter and podcaster.
This addictive memoir, written in vignettes, draws you into the nostalgia and comforts of food from the 90s. Growing up, tastes changing, experience different food for the first time. Spaghetti bolognese to the taste of your first G&T on a plane to making the perfect omelette. This book will leave you full up with fantastic writing.
If you love food (isn't that everyone) or food writing like Hungry by Grace Dent or Toast by Nigel Slater then you're going to love this book!
Thank you to Netgalley for sending me an ebook of this book!
Memories with family, friends by food
Delicious descriptions of food
Sprinkled with sparkling and joyful writing
To be left to simmer and soak up all of the flavours and emotions.
Finally, to be enjoyed with a sparkling and loving writing voice.
Combining the above will leave you with Omelette, written by Jessie Ware, songwriter and podcaster.
This addictive memoir, written in vignettes, draws you into the nostalgia and comforts of food from the 90s. Growing up, tastes changing, experience different food for the first time. Spaghetti bolognese to the taste of your first G&T on a plane to making the perfect omelette. This book will leave you full up with fantastic writing.
If you love food (isn't that everyone) or food writing like Hungry by Grace Dent or Toast by Nigel Slater then you're going to love this book!
Thank you to Netgalley for sending me an ebook of this book!
very enjoyable if a bit of a random mishmash of stories. Jessie lovesss a name-drop in this but also v nice to read so many stories set in south london
This book was consumed only in a vest and knickers and during the last 24 hours. You may be questioning if this is a crisis, but it’s actually the opposite. Reading in silence, or with a background of generous Manchester rain, usually with knickers only on my bottom half, is my idea of “self care”.
There are certain books which fit with this plan perfectly. Those that are nostalgic, those that are personal. Those that are about family and friendship and some great and some not so great memories.
And that, reader, is why I have devoured Omlette.
In this, Jessie Ware, yes, as in superstar singer and podcast host Jessie Ware, details her experiences with food and how it has tied her life together. As this is Jessie Ware, I must say that some things felt ridiculously lavish. For example, I haven’t eaten an oyster. Similarly, there were some things I had little knowledge on, like Jewish traditional food. Oh there’s also talk of meeting the Beckham family.
Despite this, Jessie also managed to signal some deeply buried memories like trifle and my grandma and I’s love for baking, from which I gained a title of the pudding queen. Fake guylain choc shells from Lidl, that strange gold flecky, cinnamonny alcohol, goldschläger, which you whispered about as teens, and the other person’s fluffy white bread packed lunch that you eyed up. All the other bad drinks, or dangerously good drinks, the traditional nandos, and the even more traditional Sunday roast which you were always regrettably rude about as a child.
This paper omelette was DELICIOUS. For some I imagine that it’ll be nothing special, but for others, like me, it’ll be a treasure chest of unlocked memories and comfort. Bloody lovely. Thanks for what feels like a good brew and knee squeeze, Jessie.
There are certain books which fit with this plan perfectly. Those that are nostalgic, those that are personal. Those that are about family and friendship and some great and some not so great memories.
And that, reader, is why I have devoured Omlette.
In this, Jessie Ware, yes, as in superstar singer and podcast host Jessie Ware, details her experiences with food and how it has tied her life together. As this is Jessie Ware, I must say that some things felt ridiculously lavish. For example, I haven’t eaten an oyster. Similarly, there were some things I had little knowledge on, like Jewish traditional food. Oh there’s also talk of meeting the Beckham family.
Despite this, Jessie also managed to signal some deeply buried memories like trifle and my grandma and I’s love for baking, from which I gained a title of the pudding queen. Fake guylain choc shells from Lidl, that strange gold flecky, cinnamonny alcohol, goldschläger, which you whispered about as teens, and the other person’s fluffy white bread packed lunch that you eyed up. All the other bad drinks, or dangerously good drinks, the traditional nandos, and the even more traditional Sunday roast which you were always regrettably rude about as a child.
This paper omelette was DELICIOUS. For some I imagine that it’ll be nothing special, but for others, like me, it’ll be a treasure chest of unlocked memories and comfort. Bloody lovely. Thanks for what feels like a good brew and knee squeeze, Jessie.
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
funny
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
emotional
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Really easy reading and great for commute reading!