What is this blog about?

This will be a blog from my 2015 project of eating many of the recipes from Jerusalem: A Cookbook, by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi.

This book is unbelievably popular, so I can't be the first guy to go all Julie and Julia on it. I promise I'll try to be more respectful than Julie Powell was of Julia Child. Another advantage is that Ottolenghin and Tamimi were actually designing a book for everyday cooking, not the made-for-special-days book that Child wrote. Readers who want an everyday book by Julia: get yourself a copy of The Way to Cook, which is fantastic, and has awesome an awesome crêpe recipe.

Anyhow, I'm dan brown. I'm a professor at the University of Waterloo. People in Waterloo might have seen my blog Eating the Plaza, about the restaurants near our university. (I recently talked with a relatively new prof at Waterloo, who'd found the blog, and was disappointed that I hate all of the restaurants in the plaza. He had to concede that I was right, though.)

Eating Jerusalem will be much tastier, I'm sure.  Welcome.