How an Ottolenghi chef raised three children who eat everything
Sign up to IndyEat’s free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Get our food and drink newsletter for free If you don’t want your children to become fussy eaters, why not wean them on a steady diet of Yotam Ottolenghi recipes? That’s what Claudine Boulstridge did – but not necessarily by design. French-British chef Boulstridge has been Ottolenghi’s recipe tester for 17 years now – meaning that pretty much every recipe from his cookbooks or Guardian column have come through Boulstridge’s Welsh kitchen before going out to the masses. “They grew up on Yotam’s foods,” Boulstridge says of her three children, now aged 10, 12 and 15. “They would eat the recipe testing with us, or I would even blitz it up when they were tiny and couldn’t chew everything. “So they’ve had every vegetable” – which Boulstridge, 45, suggests has “helped” them become adventurous, unfussy eaters. Plus, some French attitudes to food has permeated Boulstridge’s household just outside Cardiff. “I’m half French, so …
