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Table Manners: The Cookbook
'Beautifully put-together with wonderfully crafted, full-on flavour recipes for everyone. A proper family feast of a cookbook!'
Tom Kerridge
‘This is a gorgeous book.’ Nigella Lawson
‘Lennie and Jessie are as madly entertaining to read as they are to be around. They are also brilliant storytellers so every recipe is as personal as it could be: a classic Jewish chopped liver served on Friday night dinners, aromatic Beef Stifado eaten on Greek holidays or an orange and pistachio cake created by son and brother. I adore this family.’ Yotam Ottolenghi
‘This book encapsulates humour, kindness, bucket loads of love and, most importantly, good food. I’m so happy to have the Ware family in my life and in my kitchen.’ Sam Smith
'damned good food' The Telegraph
‘Mum. Guess what?’
‘What Jessie?’
‘We’ve written a cookbook’.
‘I know darling! Do you think anyone will want to buy it?’
‘Well, it’s the recipes we’ve made our guests – the really good ones. Like the Sausage and Bean Casserole we made Ed Sheeran, the Drunken Crouton and Kale Salad we made Yotam Ottolenghi and the two Blackberry and Custard Tarts we served Nigella.'
'You ate a whole one before she arrived, darling.'
'It’s a bloody good recipe mum.'
Cooking through Table Manners is like having Jessie and Lennie at the table with you: brash, funny and full of opinions.
In true Ware style, their cookbook is divided into Effortless, A Bit More Effort, Summertime, Desserts and Baking (thanks to Jessie’s brother Alex), Chrismukkah (Christmas, Hanukkah and celebrations) and, of course, Jewish-ish Food.
These delicious, easy dishes are designed for real people with busy and sometimes chaotic lives with the ultimate goal of everyone eating together so unfiltered chat can flourish.
‘This is a gorgeous book.’ Nigella Lawson
‘Lennie and Jessie are as madly entertaining to read as they are to be around. They are also brilliant storytellers so every recipe is as personal as it could be: a classic Jewish chopped liver served on Friday night dinners, aromatic Beef Stifado eaten on Greek holidays or an orange and pistachio cake created by son and brother. I adore this family.’ Yotam Ottolenghi
‘This book encapsulates humour, kindness, bucket loads of love and, most importantly, good food. I’m so happy to have the Ware family in my life and in my kitchen.’ Sam Smith
'damned good food' The Telegraph
‘Mum. Guess what?’
‘What Jessie?’
‘We’ve written a cookbook’.
‘I know darling! Do you think anyone will want to buy it?’
‘Well, it’s the recipes we’ve made our guests – the really good ones. Like the Sausage and Bean Casserole we made Ed Sheeran, the Drunken Crouton and Kale Salad we made Yotam Ottolenghi and the two Blackberry and Custard Tarts we served Nigella.'
'You ate a whole one before she arrived, darling.'
'It’s a bloody good recipe mum.'
Cooking through Table Manners is like having Jessie and Lennie at the table with you: brash, funny and full of opinions.
In true Ware style, their cookbook is divided into Effortless, A Bit More Effort, Summertime, Desserts and Baking (thanks to Jessie’s brother Alex), Chrismukkah (Christmas, Hanukkah and celebrations) and, of course, Jewish-ish Food.
These delicious, easy dishes are designed for real people with busy and sometimes chaotic lives with the ultimate goal of everyone eating together so unfiltered chat can flourish.
288 pages, Hardcover
Published March 5, 2020
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March 14, 2020
This is one of the most beautiful looking cool books I’ve ever seen in my life! The pictures are lush! I love all the family references too within the book.
I have only tried a couple of the recipes so far but the aesthetics in this book are just amazing!
I have only tried a couple of the recipes so far but the aesthetics in this book are just amazing!
April 1, 2020
Love the podcast, listened to the audiobook and have loved cooking from the book
April 25, 2024
A good range of receipes
Having listened to a couple of the podcasts I purchased this book and it has a range of interesting receipes across a range of area that will inspire you to try many of them
Having listened to a couple of the podcasts I purchased this book and it has a range of interesting receipes across a range of area that will inspire you to try many of them
July 14, 2020
An excellent cook book. Every recipe is easy to follow, affordable to prep and DELICIOUS! Finally made me feel like I can cook!
October 11, 2020
Finally a cook book from where i can easily make the recepies, without having to spend a fortune on exotic ingridients!
January 24, 2026
很温暖的一本书，很好的母女俩
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