Omelette
Omelette by Jessie Ware
Reviewed by Jess
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I’ve loved Jessie Ware for a long time. I’ve seen her live twice, play her song with Sampha on repeat every Valentine’s Day and am an avid listener of Table Manners, her podcast with mom Lennie (absolute LEGEND). When I heard she was writing a book I admit I wondered whether it was a memoir too soon. But I’m very very happy to say my doubts were quashed within 5 pages. Spoiler alert: I loved this book!
It’s not a memoir at all. It’s more like a living food diary, a curation and celebration of food through life. She’s right though; you go on holiday, you remember the food (or lack of), you celebrate life milestones with food, you comfort yourself with, you guessed it, food. But the events themselves become part of the narrative too. Jessie hilariously and candidly takes us through her fights with her best friend, first date with her husband, flights with her kids and bar mitzvahs with her family, with a full plate and a full heart. She’s honest about motherhood, her Jewish faith, her parents’ separation and being a real South London girl til the end of time.
There’s little family recipes dotted throughout in case you feel like trying them too - I am vegetarian, so not many apply to my dietary requirements but it’s a lovely inclusion. Also fear not, there is plenty of celeb gossip in here too; dinner with Rihanna and Sam Smith in LA?! Of course! But this book is also firmly London, right down to Brunswick House on the Vauxhall roundabout that I used to walk past every time I went to Nine Elms Sainsburys. Stick this book in the Dolly Alderton category of “people you could be best friends with”. A short and sweet summer read.
