Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley, leading lights of the Ottolenghi empire, talk about their new book of Palestinian food
Sami Tamimi was 17 when he moved out of his family home in East Jerusalem’s Old City. He was gay and he knew his Muslim father especially would struggle to accept that. “I was an angry kid,” recalls Tamimi, who is now 52, at one of his restaurants, Rovi in central London. “Because of the whole sexuality thing, I couldn’t talk about it to anybody. But I come from a different place now. I had a lot to prove. And I did it. I’m not angry now. The opposite.
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