The creation of a new verb – To Ottoleng.
June 15, 2013 by JaneWe all have our favorite cookbooks and Tim Hayward in the Financial Times looks at how much our choices reflect current entertaining trends. Perhaps this particularly resonated with me since I lived in the UK for most of the period he covers but I think it should ring true with many EYB members. How often have we gone to a friend’s for dinner (do we still call them dinner parties or is that an out-dated description?) and been served a meal we could easily have chosen ourselves from our own cookbooks?
I love Tim’s creation of a new verb to reflect Ottolenghi’s current ubiquity on the dinner table – “Shall we Ottoleng tonight? I expect so, because it needs to become its own verb. I Ottoleng; thou Ottolengest; he Ottolengs. Oh yes … everybody’s Ottolenging now and we love it.”
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