Yeshi Jampa

Yeshi Jampa

Chef

https://tastetibet.com/
Yeshi Jampa grew up in Tibet, herding livestock on the high reaches of the plateau and learning to cook inside a yak hair tent at a young age. When he was nineteen, Yeshi walked across the Himalayas to northern India, where he and later met Julie Kleemen, who studied Chinese at Cambridge University. Yeshi's soups and stir-fries won Julie's heart, and they are now married with two children and living in Oxford, UK. Together, they own and run the Taste Tibet restaurant and festival food stall, a Guardian and BBC Good Food Top Ten pick, and a finalist in the Best Street Food or Takeaway category in the 2021 BBC Food and Farming Awards. Julie and Yeshi share a passion for food and wellbeing, and have made it their mission to get Tibet on the global food map.

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Top of the class: student recipes

Top of the class: student recipes

‘Easy recipes for home leavers’ is the subtitle of the latest cookbook to be added to ckbk, Sophie Grigson’s Students’ Cookbook. While tastes and preferences may vary – mince or lentils? eggs or aquafaba? – a student menu needs easy, thrifty, healthy, fun dishes using simple techniques. ckbk is full of confidence-boosting recipes for those who may now be cooking for themselves for the first time.Know a student heading to college? Why not send them a gift subscription to ckbk with 25% off!
Cookbook Preview: Taste Tibet

Cookbook Preview: Taste Tibet

Taste Tibet is the first cookbook from award-winning Oxford based food entrepreneurs Julie Kleeman and Yeshi Jampa. Published on 17 March 2022, the book brings together family recipes from chef Yeshi Jampa’s home country, high in the Himalayas, including the famous momo dumplings.